Fate wasn’t kind to Jiri Prochazka this year. The Czech fighter never got to defend the UFC light heavyweight title he won in June against Glover Teixeira after he was forced to relinquish it because of a shoulder injury that will keep him indefinitely shelved.
Not many details of what happened have been made public, until recently, when UFC president Dana White sat down with Paddy Pimblett for a podcast. He says it happened in the gym when Prochazka’s coaches were trying to do some DIY fixing of the already-injured shoulder.
“That night when it all went down and we had our doctor look at him, the doctor literally said in all the years at the UFC, this is the worst shoulder injury we’ve ever seen.