Chris Weidman ran so that Carlos Ulberg could walk.
The newly-crowned light heavyweight champion is back on his feet and exercising his surgically-repaired knee less than a week after surgery to undo the damage inflicted during the UFC 327 main event earlier this month at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
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Ulberg, 35, is expected to
return to action in early 2027.
“He’s gonna stay in Vegas,” UFC CEO Dana White said at the UFC Winnipeg post-fight press conference. “He’s got the surgery, and he’s gonna start working at the PI. Apparently, where he lives in [New Zealand], he’s in a remote part of the country, so there isn’t much around him.”
“What we would do before we built the Performance Institute is we would get these guys surgeries with great doctors, and then they’d go home, and they wouldn’t do anything,” White explained. “They didn’t do any physical therapy or recovery. Now with the PI, that place has saved more fights and helped more athletes prolong their careers. We’ll get him in there, and see how fast he starts to recover. We always figure it out.”
No decision has been made on a possible interim title … yet.
