Jiri Prochazka – “I Want to Show the Beauty of the Art” | UFC Vegas 25 Post-fight Interview

ladies and gentlemen the end comes at the official time four minutes 29 seconds of round number two your winner by way of knockout yeary i'm here with the winner yuri prohaska yuri first of all congratulations that thank you sir the best fights performances i've seen in a long time i imagine you're ecstatic with that oh man don't don't say that no it was it were it were there uh very nice fights well you know what i loved about your performance tonight is not only the striking ability that you showed the entire time but this almost throwback martial arts mentality that you you've brought to the cage tonight is that something that you hold dear to your heart to to kind of bring that warrior martial art spirit into the octagon one more time please uh just your martial arts spirit yuri yeah you know you from the hair yeah i just i just want to show the beauty of the art but sometimes i'm sometimes i'm i go very quickly for that for for the win and and by that i'm i'm i catch the some punches and that's mistakes yeah but i'm learning still from fight to fight well and that's a scary idea that you're still learning from fight to fight because you look fantastic and speaking of i want you to take a look at this finish and how you set it up with the right elbow to this spinning elbow and just talk us through and is this something you work on or were you just kind of flowing out there well i just flow there is after that after some counter punches from dominic uh i can't have no chance to to to think for some plans but i just flo i just i just was in the flow and after that maybe the spinning elbow yeah that's right okay let's try it yeah well i mean the execution was perfect the timing was perfect and dana white had already stated that the winner of this fight would be next in line for the title is this what you want do you think you're ready to face potentially that the next title holder oh okay yeah yeah i'm ready yeah i'm ready let's do that let's do that yeah let's do that but i like i like the i like the my neighbor blah but okay but but there there is uh now it's a fight global tech share versus yeah yes so winner will be minus next opponent that that is what it sounds like my friend oh okay that's that's that's that's that's honor for me that's a big honor for me well i gotta say you earned it i mean you've only had two fights inside of the octagon but the way that you went out there and performed tonight it seems like you've been a 10-year veteran in this yeah that's uh that's uh all about that was my uh before career before the before the ufc uh all my fights was just teaching uh me and my team to to get better and better to step into ufc and just take a title but with the how to say with the honor and uh be with with the well yeah listen you may be a one fight away from holding ufc gold and based on that performance you deserve it yuri keep bringing that martial art spirits to the octagon because we absolutely loved it you looked fantastic tonight go enjoy your victory and i can't wait to see what's next thank you thank you thank you so much and i just want to say hello to czech republic to all my fans in the world everywhere thank you i just want to share the beauty of martial arts thank you thank you

Channel: UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship

Views: 312,377

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Length: 3min 49sec (229 seconds)

Published: Sat May 01 2021