There’s a battle brewing between Top 5 light heavyweight contenders Jiri Prochazka and Paulo Costa, according to “BJP,” who claims UFC recently offered him a late-fall showdown against the former middleweight title challenger.
“This is just a quick message for Paulo Costa,” Prochazka said on Instagram. “Don’t tag me, don’t mention me in your posts because you have an offer from UFC to fight me in October or November. And if you don’t want to fight me, don’t mention me, don’t speak about me. This is it.
I’m waiting for the contract for this fight.”
The old “sign the contract” bit.
“EVERYONE wants to fight me because I’m THE GUY in this boring division,” Costa replied on X. “But the TRUTH is: so far, nobody has mentioned your name to me. So go back to doing that weird thing of yours — whatever the hell it is you’re doing, man.”
Prochazka (32-6-1) is coming off a technical knockout loss to Carlos Ulberg in a widely-panned performance at UFC 327 last April. As for Costa (16-4), he recently ended the undefeated run of Azamat Murzakanov with a thunderous head kick knockout, also at UFC 327.
Nothing is official at this time, but this seems like the right fight to make.
Any objections?
