Sean O'Malley believes Jiri Prochazka's 'mercy' claim in UFC 327 loss
Sean O'Malley thinks Jiri Prochazka had Carlos Ulberg finished but failed to capitalize at UFC 327. Prochazka (32-6-1 MMA, 6-3 UFC) had an injured Ulberg (14-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) in front of him but wound up getting caught with a left hook that knocked him out in the first-round of their vacant light heavyweight title fight this past Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami. The likes of coach Ray Longo and Henry Cejudo took umbrage with Prochazka claiming that showing Ulberg "mercy" is what cost him , but O'Malley finds it hard not to believe him.
"Jiri says he felt bad, he felt mercy, or he didn't want to hurt him," O'Malley said on his YouTube channel . "If anyone else said that, I would be like, 'Man. ' But Jiri, I kind of believe him.
If he could have knocked him out with a right hand, he would have. Maybe in his head he did feel it, and it might have played into it a little bit, but you could just see the heartbreak on Jiri. That motherf*cker's going to have a tough time sleeping for a couple of weeks.
"Every time he closes his eyes on the bed, it goes through your mind, 'What could I have done? ' And his fight, it literally was in the palm of his hands, and now he's not – he was almost UFC world champion, and now he's not. He's going to lay down like this and go, 'F*ck' Losing sucks.
When you lay your head down on that pillow at night, you're just like, 'F*ck, all right. I guess I'm going to go to sleep. ' Poor Jiri.