Demetrious Johnson: UFC's Jiri Prochazka won't stop keeping hands down
Demetrious Johnson thinks Jiri Prochazka's fighting style led to his downfall at UFC 327. Prochazka (32-6-1 MMA, 6-3 UFC) was knocked out by Carlos Ulberg (14-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) in their vacant light heavyweight title fight Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami. Ulberg caught Prochazka with a left hook in Round 1 while he was backed up against the fence.
Prochazka pressed Ulberg, but his tendency of keeping his hands down while hunting his prey cost him. "This is a lesson that I always say: Those athletes out there who keep their hands down when they fight – Bobby Green, Jiri Prochazka – when you have your hands down, if a guy goes wham and you can't block everything," Johnson said on his YouTube channel . "That's a shot that just caught Jiri Prochazka at the very edge on the chin and drops him, and now we have a new light heavyweight champion of the world with Carlos Ulberg.
I think he's never going to break that habit of keeping his hands down fighting that way. I feel absolutely gutted for him. " Prochazka said he regretted showing Ulberg mercy after Ulberg injured his knee.
While he threw several leg kicks at the start, Prochazka claimed that he pulled back after out of guilt. Seconds later, Prochazka was floored, and he ultimately regrets how everything went down. This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Ex-UFC champ: Prochazka won't break habit that led to UFC 327 KO loss