Jiri Prochazka Receives A Hero’s Welcome As He Returns To The Czech Republic After Winning The UFC Light Heavyweight Title | Social Media Roundup
This past weekend at UFC 275, Jiri Prochazka defeated Glover Teixeira and was crowned the new UFC light heavyweight champion. Today, Prochazka returned to the Czech Republic and was given an incredible hero’s welcome — this and much more on Monday’s social media roundup.
Jiri Prochazka returns to the Czech Republic after capturing the UFC light heavyweight title
This past weekend at UFC 275 we witnessed a fight of the year contender and an absolute slugfest between Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka.
The fight was incredible from start to finish with both men getting rocked on multiple occasions, some incredible reversals on the ground from both men as well as some incredibly low fight IQ moments from both fighters.
In the end it was Prochazka who picked up the win via rear naked choke in the fifth round which many people believed to be probably the least likely outcome of the fight due to Teixeira being one of the best BJJ artists in MMA.
This win by Prochazka was monumental. He becomes the first ever Czech fighter to win a UFC belt and the first man to ever submit Glover Teixeira in his professional MMA career which has gone on for over 20 years.
Earlier this morning, Prochazka returned to the Czech Republic and as you would expect, he was given an incredible welcome home by his fellow Czech citizens.
Check out the video of Prochazka being admired and cheered on in his hometown of Brno below.
Jiri Prochazka (@jiri_bjp) receives a Hero’s welcome in his hometown of Brno. He is the first UFC Champion from the Czech Republic in history. —- pic.twitter.com/EIh22iXfd6
— Paradigm Sports (@ParadigmSports) June 13, 2022
The scenes in the Czech Republic were incredible and you can only imagine how much of a legend Prochazka will become in his country if he goes on to defend the belt several times.
Dana White interested in making Michael Chandler vs Conor McGregor
The UFC president Dana White has admitted that he was extremely impressed with Michael Chandler after his last fight against Tony Ferguson where he knocked him out cold.
White has also revealed that Chandler’s last performance he is interested in giving Chandler the illustrious Conor McGregor fight.
Conor vs Chandler next? —
Source, TMZ: https://t.co/GAeQFKVjUi pic.twitter.com/YTnqwj7Xqs
— MMA On Point (@OnPointMMA) June 10, 2022
Would you like to see Chandler vs McGregor next?
Ring Magazine’s new P4P list revealed
Ring Magazine’s newest P4P list has been revealed and it has seen Naoya Inoue overtake Oleksandr Usyk as boxing’s current P4P king.
— Naoya Inoue has now overtaken Oleksandr Usyk as Ring Magazine’s new pound-for-pound king:
1️⃣—- Naoya Inoue
2️⃣—- Oleksandr Usyk
3️⃣—- Terence Crawford
4️⃣—- Errol Spence
5️⃣—- Juan Estrada
6️⃣—- Canelo
7️⃣—- Vasyl Lomachenko
8️⃣—- Dmitry Bivol
9️⃣————– Josh Taylor
—— Jermell Charlo— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) June 10, 2022
Official UFC 276 poster revealed
The poster for UFC 276 which will be headlined with a middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Jared Cannonier has officially been revealed.
Here’s the official poster for UFC 276 — pic.twitter.com/Zs4LryfrMV
— Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) June 9, 2022
The card will also feature the highly anticipated trilogy fight between Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway.
Floyd Mayweather set to announce his next exhibition bout
Floyd Mayweather is expected to hold a press conference today in Las Vegas to announce his next exhibition bout.
Floyd Mayweather is set to announce his next exhibition fight at a press conference on Monday in Las Vegas. He’ll be going back to Japan with RIZIN after previously knocking out Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition on one of their shows in 2018.
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) June 11, 2022
Mayweather has come under a lot of scrutiny related to his exhibition bouts due to the skill of his opponnets and the fact that Logan Paul revealed that he is still yet to be paid by Mayweather and his team after their fight.
It’s Fight Week!
It is once again Fight Week!
This weekend the UFC returns to Austin with a fantastic featherweight main event fight between Calvin Kattar and Josh Emmett.
Fiiiiiiiiiiight weeeeeek!!! @CalvinKattar vs @JoshEmmettUFC is LIVE and FREE SATURDAY on @espn! #UFCAustin pic.twitter.com/l4KSUOYgIr
— danawhite (@danawhite) June 13, 2022
Michael ‘Venom’ Page set to face Mike Perry in the main event of BKFC 27 which will take place in London
It has been confirmed that Bellator welterweight contender Michael Page will make the switch to BKFC where he will take on former UFC welterweight Mike Perry.
The fight will take place in August in London at BKFC 27.
** Huge Announcement ** Michael ‘Venom’ Page will be facing Mike Perry in the main event at #BKFC27 on Aug 20th! https://t.co/HLL6nJaKgl
Pre-Sale Ticket Signup: https://t.co/B9CKDdozj8 pic.twitter.com/XKrkrfAWVE— Bare Knuckle FC (@bareknucklefc) June 9, 2022
It is certainly an interesting fight given the two fighters’ polar opposite styles.
Dana White reacts to Jiri Prochazka defeating Glover Teixeira
Dana White was not present in Singapore this past weekend for UFC 275 but instead, during the main event he decided to jump on Instagram and we all got to see his reaction to the end of the fight.
Check out the clip of White reacting to Prochazka submitting Teixeira below.
Dana White reacting to Jiri Prochazka choking out Glover Teixeira at UFC 275#UFC275 @danawhite pic.twitter.com/dOTjFaiYK8
— Ben Thomas (@Benfthomas_10) June 12, 2022
Leon Edwards plans to fight Jorge Masvidal in his first title defence if he can defeat Kamaru Usman at UFC 278
During the broadcast of UFC 275, it was announced that Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards would finally face off for the UFC welterweight title this summer at UFC 278.
Following on from the news that the fight is now official, Edwards has revealed that if he defeats Usman and becomes the new welterweight champion, he will give Jorge Masvidal a title shot back in the UK.
— Leon Edwards has stated that if he wins the welterweight title at #UFC278 he will offer the first title shot to Jorge Masvidal back in the UK.
[per The MMA Hour]#UFC278 #UFC #MMA pic.twitter.com/ZueA3xnj1S— The MMA Media (@The_MMA_Media) June 13, 2022
