MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has questioned Jiri Prochazka’s comments suggesting he showed mercy against Carlos Ulberg.
As we know, Jiri Prochazka suffered a knockout loss to Carlos Ulberg last weekend in the main event of UFC 327. It seemed as if he had Ulberg on the ropes after an apparent knee injury, but instead, the new light heavyweight champion was able to land a devastating blow that led to him securing the finish.
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For Prochazka, it’s now about going back to the drawing board and figuring out where he went wrong. He has since suggested that he showed Ulberg too much mercy in the wake of his injury, and that he wishes he could have been able to just pull the trigger.
Chael Sonnen, meanwhile, has a different point of view on what went wrong for Prochazka.
Sonnen’s view on Prochazka’s mercy comments
“I didn’t love our broadcast team is yelling he’s got a blown-out knee – they don’t know that,” Sonnen said on his “On The Road with Chael Sonnen” show for Paramount+. “I think they got a little ahead of themselves talking about, ‘He won this on one knee.’ He was standing on both feet. I thought that was a little weird. Jiri is coming out the back saying, ‘I was showing mercy.’ Maybe. But it looked to me like you were in a fistfight and you got punched on the chin by a guy that’s pretty good at punching people on the chin. I kind of thought all of that commentary was a way of taking away from Carlos. This is Carlos’ night and I think we owe him that credit.
“I didn’t get this whole, ‘I had mercy and this guy’s on one leg.’ That’s not what I saw. That’s what the announcers were screaming to everybody. But I saw a cage fight where two guys were trying to hurt one another and Carlos got the jump on Jiri. That’s what I saw.”
Quotes via MMA Junkie
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