At UFC’s fourth occasion within the RAC Enviornment in Perth, Carlos Ulberg confirmed to the plenty that he belonged on the prime of the sunshine heavyweight division.
With 36 seconds left of the primary spherical, Ulberg hit Reyes with a crisp jab, proper hook combo, knocking him down earlier than follow-up pictures would knock Reyes unconscious.
This may lengthen the “Black Jag’s” win streak to 9 and put him within the entrance working to face the winner of UFC 320’s headliner subsequent week: Magomedov Ankalaev vs Alex Peirera.
Ulberg had a easy message for the 2 mild heavyweights: “I’m coming.”
Nonetheless, Ulberg has different plans to be in title rivalry so much prior to most followers anticipate, as he “informed [UFC executive Hunter Campbell] I’m ready to be a backup for subsequent week. Fly me to Vegas and I’ll be there. I’m not going to eat or drink something right this moment. Go spend a while with the household, and if want be, I’ll be there to again up anybody for that title shot.”
“I don’t suppose anyone has, from the highest of my head…fought a battle after which additionally the very subsequent weekend, fought for the title,” Ulberg continued. That’s what I envision, that’s what I really feel like can occur.”
The title battle image at 205lbs simply acquired very fascinating after this battle, with the winner of Jiri Prochazka and Khalil Rountree additionally within the combine.
Ankalaev, the present mild heavyweight champion and favorite in his rematch with Alex Peirera, earlier than the battle yesterday in Perth.
“To be trustworthy, the battle this week between Reyes and Ulberg is rather more fascinating to me as a result of (Prochazka and Rountree) fought for the title a number of instances – we’ve watched them in title fights,” Ankalaev stated throughout a UFC 320 media occasion.
On the opposite aspect of the coin, Reyes has had one other setback to his title shot comeback dream, now being 3-5 in his final eight and has suffered one other vicious knockout.
It’s unclear the place Reyes goes subsequent after this battle, with a lot of his supporters calling for him to retire as a result of quantity of injury he has incurred throughout his profession.
