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Carlos Ulberg is the new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, and the way it happened is something you have to see to believe.

If you have not watched this finish yet, stop reading and go find it right now. I will wait.

Prochazka throws a kick, Ulberg steps back, his entire lower leg just falls apart, and then finishes the fight on one leg to win the championship. An all-time moment for a fighter who has been working his way up through the division and deserved every bit of this opportunity.

But as incredible as Ulberg's moment was, this is equally an all-time choke job from Yuri Prochazka. When the division felt completely open, and the title was right there for the taking, I broke down exactly how he let it slip away and why "I showed mercy" is not the explanation anyone should be accepting for what happened in that first round.

Plus, what this means for the Light Heavyweight division now, which just got thrown into more flux than it was already in.

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00:00UFC 327 is behind us. There is a new UFC light heavyweight champion and he won that belt in the
00:07most unbelievable way possible. Let's talk about it. So UFC 327 now in the books and it goes down
00:26with a wild finish. If you have not seen this yet do yourself a favor. Once this video is done
00:32go
00:32check it out because it is unbelievable. Yuri Prochka against Carlos Alberg for the championship
00:39back part of the first round. Prochka throws a kick. Alberg kind of steps back and you can see
00:45his entire lower leg just a bunch of stuff go boom all of a sudden and like it looked like
00:50a bone
00:51maybe turns out it's just like a tendon that kind of ruptures at the same time like there's a big
00:55of
00:55a ripple like there's a whole lot of stuff in his leg just kind of falls apart at once and
00:59he goes
01:00to take a step back and there's a bit of a huh and oh oh no oh this isn't going
01:04to go well and so
01:06Prochka comes in. Alberg is able to just tattoo him and get the finish on one leg to end up
01:13being the
01:14champion. An unbelievable moment for Alberg who has been progressing his way through and working his way
01:21up to the top deserved this opportunity. We talked about it on the podcast earlier this week
01:25deserved or last week I guess deserved the opportunity and made the most of it even under
01:31the most weird of circumstances that you could get in a fight. How many times have we seen someone's
01:36leg just kind of die on him like that and they just kind of crumpled down to the mat and
01:40I'm not
01:40questioning the toughness of anyone else it's just the focus the toughness and everything with
01:45Alberg there was remarkable that he was able to pull that off. So first of all I want to give
01:51credit to Alberg for an all-time moment but as has been discussed a couple of times in a couple
01:56of
01:56different spots this is an all-time choke job for Yuri Prochka and I don't know how you look at
02:02it in
02:03any other way when you are coming in off of a couple of tough title losses already and now the
02:10one guy who
02:10has been in your way the whole time is gone and the division feels free and clear for you to
02:15get
02:15that chance I I don't know how you screw this up and I get he said oh I showed mercy
02:21and da da da da
02:22that wasn't showing mercy that you got caught man if he didn't let up I didn't think he didn't like
02:27oh is your leg okay boom boom like that it wasn't Victor Ortiz um Victor Ortiz right against Floyd Mayweather
02:33where Ortiz head-butted him and Ortiz is like oh man sorry about that and Mayweather just caught him
02:38with the cleanest two-punch combo a human has ever hit another human with um this wasn't that
02:42it was Yuri Yuri may have lost focus and was like oh I'm gonna be able to tag him now
02:47and just like
02:48kind of lost his mind on it but that's the opposite of mercy that's like oh I'm gonna I'm gonna
02:53mercy
02:53put you out here we're gonna end this thing if Yuri can just like keep his head about him keep
02:58a regular
02:58game plan and just not get punched into the shadow realm he wins the championship because
03:04Ulberg's not gonna be able to walk to his corner let alone come back for the second round so to
03:09me
03:10Ulberg amazing moment all the credit in the world to him but I do think you have to look at
03:14this as
03:15just a gigantic choke job here for Yuri Prohochka the other part of it now is yeah like Ulberg
03:22was able to get this great moment probably gonna be a bit till he's fighting again right like that just
03:28the way humans work I think that leg's gonna take some time to recover so I don't know how
03:33I don't know what they're gonna do with the championship now because you just had a vacant
03:37title that's what they were fighting for because the previous champ went up to heavyweight and now
03:42are you going to have an interim title before the um the the unified title is defended even once
03:48is Ulberg's leg maybe not as bad as it looked when the whole lower part of it just went kaboom
03:53we'll see but I think this throws probably the most famous division in UFC history into flux right now
04:02even more so than we had about 72 hours ago but just an all-time moment on that UFC card
04:09at the end
04:10of it on what was a bit of a weird night um you already had um an illness or a
04:15slight injury
04:16move Tyra and Van to UFC 328 which makes that card awesome and the rest of the night it was
04:22just like it
04:22was weird um the um like Paulo Costa gets a win just it was a whole lot of fights that
04:28were just kind of
04:29there and kind of exciting but not super exciting but kind of exciting it was a weird weird night for
04:35the UFC and it ends in the weirdest way possible so what do you guys want to see next at
04:39205 pounds
04:40and am I being unfair to Yuri saying that this is an all-time choke job let me know in
04:45the comments
04:46or the live chat uh if you're watching live with us here today and yes it's been a bit since
04:51we've
04:51been able to stream this live on couch potato diary uh but we are back doing the live thing here
04:56uh I'm going to try to again a little bit more this week it's Wrestlemania week going to get into
05:00the wrestling talk here in a second for those watching live um but yeah we're going to stream
05:03live twitch.tv slash primetime pk and also youtube.com slash at couch potato diary
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