Newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champion Carlos Ulberg has already lost the title. Not in the sense that he lost belt while competing in a championship match, but that he has simply misplaced the gold.
On Monday, Ulberg told Fox Sports Australia that “I’ve lost the belt, bro. I don’t know exactly where it is. Initially after winning, the plan was to not have a drink. But you know how these things go, right? First, someone gives you a champagne to celebrate. Then one thing leads to another and you’re doing shots. So it’s ‘OK, I’ll have another, and another, and another…’ We’ve got a big group of boys over here in Miami and, when the fight was done, we all went out to the afterparty at a nightclub.
“Then after that, it was back to one of the boys’ apartments and we all hung out there. I didn’t want to be carrying the belt around so I think it’s still there at the apartment somewhere. One of the boys probably has it in bed with him.”
Carlos Ulberg defeated former champion Jiri Prochazka while the men competed for the then vacant title in the UFC 327 headliner in Miami on Saturday.