The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Daniel Cormier Show - Jiri Prochazka on FINISHING Carlos Ulberg to win title, Josh Hokit altercation

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Jiri Prochazka IS BACK with Daniel Cormier on the DC Check-In series, this time ahead of a MASSIVE FIGHT against Carlos Ulberg for the UFC's vacant light heavyweight championship following Alex Pereira's move to heavyweight. Jiri reveals why him and Josh Hokit got into it at media day. Plus, Prochazka breaks down Ulberg and calls him a "systematic fighter" that may have trouble with the power he brings. Plus, Jiri tells DC why he is always looking for finishes in his fights. And don't miss Cormier CALL OUT Prochazka for wearing two watches at the same time! #Volume All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The volume. Well, Yuri, what happened there? I saw Josh Hokeet screaming at you. Why? What happened? Man, I don't know who's that guy. He's the heavyweight now. He's fighting Curtis Blaze. I understand.

Okay. So, yeah, let's be more humble because this is like, yeah, he can do all this trash, whatever he's doing, this show. But let's, But don't speak about me, man. Why was he attacking you? I don't know.

He tries to scream to everyone. So you know who he is, Yuri? I don't know. That was the first time you met Josh Hokit? Yeah, and I really don't care. It looked like you were going to go get him. Yeah. But you got a title fight and you can go kick something random dudes ass you were thinking about?

No, no, it was like because nobody will speak with me. me like that in the crowd, you know. Isn't it crazy, you know, how like the world, just the world now, they lack respect because it's all about like people watching and giving views. So it's disrespectful in so many different ways. Yeah. Attention. It's about attention.

So somebody can take attention by do this bullshit stuff. Somebody can do it by doing good things. And the best people can do good things without paying attention from outside, you know. How does a guy like you who lives the martial arts code handle that, right? Because when I look at careers, right, I can look at your career and I can look at Josh's career. Now, when you got to the UFC, it was very quick, right? You beat Dominic Reyes. You won a couple fights.

You were fighting for the belt and became the champion. This kid's only fought two times in the UFC's fighting on the main card on a numbered event. How do you see today's world, right, where that can almost get you to where you got fast? When you did it based on merit, you beat the guy that and fall for the belt. You had so many finishes before you got here. Like, how do you see that in terms of the way the game works now? We have to start watch more what is true in this world, and what is valuable. you know and because a lot of attention in this world we are giving to the trash yeah so we have to

separate where to pay attention where it's the good quality of attention to make our life good quality and not the quantity and trash so so and that's that's that's that's that's that's working in everything in the food in the breathing in the wards what you're using with others in everything and especially in our thoughts do you watch like do you watch like youtube and instagram and all this stuff or no just because i always wonder like because you'll go away for 45 days and like not really taking much of anything if you see all because now a lot of times what's happening is these influencers are getting their asses kicked by fighters. They're going into gyms fighting.

Do you see all this stuff? Yeah. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes, I have Instagram and YouTube, all these things. But I'm trying to watch the more. He's still screaming. Yeah, still screaming. He will scream all day because maybe that's the only way he can take attention.

Have you seen him fight? No. Never seen a fight. No. That's crazy. No, it doesn't matter for me. You know, you're a guy, I remember the first time you and I sat down. I think we were in Singapore.

Is that why you became world champion? Yes. Yeah, we were in Singapore, and we sat down, and it was the first time that I had sat and spoke with you, and I remember the way you carried yourself, and the way you still carried yourself to this day, right? You follow the code of martial art, and that's what matters to you.

Through the ups and the downs, you still live that code. how do you stay in that even if something goes sideways because even now after the last fight with Pereira

you've won three fights in a row again and you're right back in the same spot how do you stay true to who you are and how you build yourself towards these fights man that's for me loyalty one word loyalty

to be loyal to your what's what you gave to your word to yourself to be loyal for and since I started to to understand and respect this Bushido rules. Man, my life from true chaos, like chaos in everything,

started to be more focused for some points, to be a real man, real man for my family, for myself, for my friend, and be the true man, yeah. And you fight often. It's not like you're fighting. I mean, you fight Jamal Hill. You fight Khalil Roundtree.

You fight, God, he's going up to heavyweight now. Rockich, you beat Rockets. You fight very often against these guys. But you always get the most dangerous guy. Did you always, did you know that it would have to be the most dangerous guy in order to get back to another championship opportunity? I like it. I like it, and I'm glad I can stay with the most dangerous guys,

with the most dangerous fighters in this world. That's why I'm in the UFC, man, that's why I feel it's attractive for me because I don't want to fight with some... Bullshit guys. No, no bullshit guy, but I really want... I'm really working on my style, working on my style, on my... All these abilities, and, man, I'm ready to be the best in the world right now. You got another dangerous guy in Carlos Oldberg this weekend.

What do you make of Oberg? How? Yeah, what do you make of him? Like his style, his abilities. Like, what do you think of Carlos Oberg? He's a very systematic stand-up fighter. Very systematic stand-up fighter. He's repeating, repeating the same things.

And as a periara, he has a good system in death. And especially with a few weapons. You're talking over. Yeah, yeah. He's just the left hook, you know, fast kicks, right hand. And yeah, because he spent a lot of time in doing this stand-up fighting, you know. And I believe like he didn't stay with somebody like me in the cage. Yeah.

So soon or later, I will find a way to end him. I was going to ask you that, like, can that work against a guy like you, like being systematic whenever you are so dynamic and you do so many different things? I remember a Jamal Hill fight in Los Angeles last year, and it seemed very competitive. It seemed like he was doing really, really good. And all of a sudden, he wasn't. And then the fight was over. Like, it's like, can that work against a guy like Yuri Prohoshka, where you just fight? Because even in the fights where you haven't found success, it wasn't just the same thing.

It was even against Pereira. He had to change things up in order to get to where he was going. It wasn't just one or two things over and over again. Can that style work against a guy like you? Let's see Saturday night. Yeah. Let's see Saturday night. I am able to prove that this Saturday night I'm level up than fight before.

Yeah. So now this is your third, fourth. UFC championship fight, right? You won the belt, you fought Alex twice, and now you're fighting for the belt again. How does this feel different? Or does it feel different at all? You know, I'm taking all the fights as a title fight.

That's the different, because every fight, really, feel that. Every fight is for me the chance to win, like a win, win my life, win the belt, win this moment, win everything, because I'm not focused for any other day, any other goals, anything. Even there is the daughter on the way. You have a daughter, yeah, yeah.

Congratulations. Thank you, thanks. Not only champ now, dad, too, huh? Now you're excited, look at you smiling. Yeah, that's right. Like goosebumps, I mean. Yeah, yeah, but that will be another thing. But even all these things I'm focused for this Saturday night.

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Uri, you know, do you feel, because again, it is your fourth time fighting for the belt, do you feel like it's do or die? Like not many guys get an opportunity to fight for the belt this many times, right? Do you feel like it's do or die? I got to be honest, I was a guy that got title fights, a lot of them, right? And I didn't win them all. But I knew that towards the end, I was like, if I don't win this, this might be the end of me fighting for championships. Do you feel that at all?

No, this is the, I know, I know it. And it's, it's like the, to be a little fear in our mind, which is every time is there. To be a little bit shaky, to be a little, but this is also the question for us, if we can be with our focus much stronger than this fear and all these. thoughts about that, to stay there, calm, and to go for that. That's it. That's the essence of the fighters, yeah. You and I... We go, sorry, we go through these thoughts.

We go through these fears. All the, we go, we go through all of this. So that's why we are where we are. You and I share a lot of similarities, right? When John Jones left, I won the championship, and I became the champion for a real long time. Pereira is leaving the weight class, and now you're fighting for the belt.

Do you understand or are you, do you recognize that you win Saturday night, there's going to be people going, well, he's not the real champion. Like, how do you plan to handle that part of it? Because that was tough for me. Like at times, right, no matter how many people I beat,

everybody kept saying, well, you lost to this guy. But ultimately, you fight the person that's in the weight class, right? How do you intend? to deal with that or have even thought about it. You know, like I answered the question before, I really don't care about this, about that. And about these ideas, man, man, I don't care. Right now I'm just focused for Saturday night and that's all.

And even what happened, what happened after, even the Pereira is in the heavyweight, maybe later I will met him in a heavyweight or whatever. but I don't need to prove that to anyone that I am better than anyone or keep myself in some emotional stacked in revenge to Pereira. No, man, no, right here, right now, there's a championship, and I'm going for the win. How do you see this fight ending on Saturday night? Because, I mean, you finish everybody, which is crazy,

because they're all really good. They're all really good guys, but you seem to finish them all. You know, that's the nature in me. That's the nature in me to go for the finish. To go for the finish, to follow my opponent until his last breath and finish him. That's what I can say. It's my nature. And I have to just follow it and systematically be there with the hands up, with all these things.

You do a lot of, yeah. Watching, watching, watching and work and take him. When you, there were two fights. Rockich and Jamal. where it seemed like you just said, fuck this, like this ain't happening and you just went at him.

Like, are you making these decisions in the fight where you go, you know what, I can fight this style that I'm learning to be safer or I can just go big man this dude because I know I'm a bigger, badder dude than him

and I'm gonna kind of go walk through him because that's exactly what you did to Rockich. Right? He hurt you in the first round and you went just got him. That's right. Jamal Hill was having success and eventually you just started walking him down

and eventually you finished him. Do you make, these decisions in your mind in the fight where you go I'm just going big dog this do? Yes, yes for sure for sure I'm I'm I think that's the

something what I'm working on a lot of what I worked and I believe this time I can't do that like too much I have to be more because he's very fast because he's very fast and I will be passion

I'm going to be very passion in the fight patient and and don't leave the the emotion the heart

the monster in me to release it to release it maybe early it but when the right time it come yeah yeah is your family here

is your family with you now my my girlfriend with the baby she's still home and but a lot of friends my sister and came to here, yeah. Do you, have you been and fought in Miami before?

No, yet. What do you think of Miami? What are you thinking of Miami? No, no, I'm saying, like, Miami's a great town. I know Tim has been here with Izzy and those guys, but when I watched him do Miami, like Edison, he's got a big house, and he's like a superstar here in Miami. Like, how's Miami treating you right now?

Man, right now, Miami, great weather. Are you a superstar, do you walk around here like a superstar? You got that nice watch. on. I see it. Oh, you got two watches. Why are you wearing two watches? One. You're what are you doing with two watches on? Yeah. Why? Why? Because this one remembered me when I'm going through and what I want. And this one is for sure to measure my heartbeat and all these things. So I didn't even

notice that until right now. Are you a superstar? Are you living a big superstar life here in Miami, Yuri? A lot of people chase you and all this? It's happening. Yeah. But I don't care. I'm stacked in the focus. That's all.

That's all what I can say. Hey, so my producer told me you intimidate him a little bit. Him. He goes, Yuri's a little scary. He goes, I don't know how to really like. He goes, I'm a little scared of Yuri. He's a nice guy. He's very nice.

He's the nicest guy. He's just a coward though. That's what it is. Yuri. Thank you for joining me, man. You are the man. Good luck this weekend. Always so good with your time.

I appreciate it. Guys, Yuri Prohaska challenges again for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship on Saturday on Paramount Plus. Make sure you watch him versus Carlos Alberg. He goes down. And also tapping to everything that Yuri is doing in his day-to-day life. You want to learn about the Machito Code and being a true martial artist? Follow my man, Yuri Prohoshka. Until next time, guys, like, subscribe and tell you friends to tell their friends that D.

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