Carlos Ulberg CALLS OUT Alex Pereira after BEATING Jiri Prochazka for UFC belt | Daniel Cormier Show

0:00 Daniel, you once said that you were going to be

0:11 the best in the world if you're going to do this.

0:13 Now that you are, what's next?

0:15 Is there a certain person you'd like to see stare across that octagon from you?

0:20 Is there this desire to see Pereira there as the guy that people Well, he's not,

0:26 you know, like you said,

0:26 he might not be the world champ because Pereira's out there.

0:29 Is there a desire for you to see that?

0:31 Is there a world where we see Carlos Goldberg at heavyweight?

0:34 Like what's next for you uh as you, you know, get on this journey to recovery?

0:38 Yeah, I think uh I think definitely Pitt is someone who

0:41 you'd want to fight cuz he's he's the man right now,

0:43 you know, and if you can if you can beat that guy, then you're the man.

0:46 So, uh he's definitely one guy that that I'd

0:50 love to to fight and I respect the guy.

0:52 I think he's he's done great in what he's done and that's why,

0:54 you know, I want to fight him.

0:56 Um, and then there's other guys in the division

0:58 that I think are pretty good, too.

1:00 So, we'll see how this thing goes.

1:02 I think, you know, the the overall thing is that it's

1:05 it's it's on a positive where we're going to I

1:08 think it's going to be a quick recovery a lot

1:11 faster than what normal ACRs are going to be, I think.

1:13 And I I think it's just more mentality

1:15 and from here and and then how I look after

1:17 the the rehab that's that that I get at the PI

1:20 and then how I deal with it going back home.

1:22 So, I'll be here in Vegas for a couple weeks,

1:25 then I go home and do the same thing.

1:27 And uh I think and I believe that it's going

1:30 to heal a lot faster than what most ACL injuries are.

1:33 Carlos, you are now the UFC champion.

1:35 I saw you at Wrestlemania.

1:37 You're on the first row.

1:38 You got involved in the show.

1:40 Was that stage?

1:41 Don't lie, Carlos.

1:42 Was that stage?

1:43 Did they call you before and go, "Hey, CM Punk's going to take your Olaf."

1:46 Oh, no way, man.

1:47 Honestly, man, I just um when he when he come to me,

1:51 he looked at me and I thought, "Ah,

1:52 he's going to do something to me cuz he looked me right in the eye

1:54 and then and then I thought he was just going to grab me like this." So,

1:58 he grabbed he I think he grabbed this and then

2:00 he he pulled the fella off and I was like, "Ah, yeah." But I thought, "Okay,

2:04 this could be a good opportunity." Like, maybe maybe take it.

2:07 I know Roman's going to kick your ass.

2:09 I know.

2:10 I know that Roman Reigns I just felt like because the whole way

2:13 that it was swinging it was like uh Roman Reigns was was was beating

2:17 him and then and then and then uh CM Punk was getting him

2:21 and then I felt like there was going to be a switch after that.

2:23 So I was like okay it's going to come back.

2:25 It's going to come back.

2:26 So I just left it at that and and and um and even even when

2:29 we were watching I was like a he's going to he's going to kick his ass.

2:32 He looked directly at you from inside the ring.

2:36 Yeah.

2:36 And it's like he recognized you.

2:37 Oh, Carlos Loberg, I'm going to go grab his Zulfala.

2:40 And then he runs out there and he grabs it.

2:42 And I was like, "Oh my GOD,

2:43 I ALMOST REACHED OUT TO GRAB IT FOR YOU TO TRY TO STOP HIM." It was crazy.

2:47 Yeah, it was crazy.

2:48 Was so cool, man.

2:49 Um, at the same time, I was just like, "Wo,

2:51 this is this is happening." Because it was the first time

2:54 I've been to a Wrestlemania or any kind of wrestling match,

2:57 and I was just in awe the whole time.

2:59 And when it he made his way, I was more just like,

3:02 "Oh, star struck like what's happening?" So, um, yeah,

3:06 I kind of just let it all be and it's such Yeah,

3:08 it's cool that that I was able to just

3:10 be there and and and experience that whole that show.

3:15 Not only be there or be there like that, you know,

3:18 you got to keep that belt because life you can't go back rows now.

3:22 It would be hard to go back rows after watching it the way it was, right?

3:26 100%.

3:26 Yeah, you have to.

3:27 And and you got to do what it takes to make sure you keep that belt.

3:30 Yeah.

3:31 Yeah.

3:31 You seem to be on the right path to do that.

3:33 Carlos, last question.

3:35 I ask everybody that's in here, same thing.

3:38 When it's all said and done,

3:39 what do you want people to remember about Carlos

3:43 Alberg from your fans to your children to your life?

3:47 Like, what do you want people to remember about Carlos Alberg?

3:55 Uh, I I have three sons.

3:59 I have three sons and I just want them to be like that's my dad.

4:07 That's you know what I mean?

4:08 So it's it's more about it's more about

4:10 my sons their sons their sons and their sons

4:13 and daughters and just passing that on and being that being that God for them.

4:19 Yeah.

4:19 Yeah.

4:21 I think people will remember that you did it your way.

4:24 I think people will remember that you are a guy

4:26 that carried a lot of expectation because of where you came from.

4:32 I think people will remember that you were a guy that did

4:36 it the way that you had to kickboxing and became a world champion.

4:40 There's a lot to your story that most people may not know.

4:43 So, I want to go all the way back to Auckland, right?

4:46 New Zealand, a place where people are known for fighting.

4:50 What about your upbringing makes you so different?

4:54 Talk to me about what growing up in Auckland was like.

4:57 Uh, growing up in Oakuckland, um, man, uh, what I say it's, uh, well,

5:04 I grew up through foster care and boys homes and it was always like

5:09 the where the part that I grew up in was just a lot of um,

5:15 we got into a lot of mischief.

5:16 It was a lot of shift and uh we wanted some some some form of

5:21 uh outlet to to I guess just to release what it what it was for us.

5:28 How did that how did that cuz I was going to bring that up obviously you

5:31 know when everybody comes up in foster care

5:34 uh that's a massive part of their story.

5:37 What do you recall about that time?

5:39 Like I know you said you guys were in a lot of mischief,

5:41 but how did you end up in that system?

5:46 Uh so from the age of four up to about 13 years old,

5:50 I was just going back and forth through different um different families,

5:54 different different uh foster carees, boys homes and stuff like that.

5:58 Man, I just like look at the way I look at it now is I I was able to adjust

6:03 to different families living in different hair homes and to see

6:07 how one particular family would live compared to another family.

6:11 So you might live with a family that is quite well off and teach you manners,

6:16 teach you this and that and then maybe like a few months later

6:19 you might move into another place that has the total opposite of that.

6:22 So you were in different um you were just

6:25 in a contrast of life and and and that's

6:28 how I I viewed my life growing up and it

6:31 was just that constant for the for the years.

6:34 Carlos was there a time where when you were going

6:37 through that you like your parents like what happened there?

6:41 Do you do you remember?

6:42 I still have a like relationship with my parents at the time,

6:44 but um you know with the New Zealand system and everything,

6:46 it's just uh I think they just found that it was better for me to be

6:50 in in in the in the um in the system and growing up through the social welfare.

6:57 Uh so yeah, I mean like uh as a kid, you know,

7:01 as a kid growing up like that, you do feel sorry for yourself and you you know,

7:04 you cry every every night, cry yourself to sleep,

7:06 but when you get older and you realize,

7:08 oh wow, this is was was more of a blessing than anything else.

7:11 Do you think that your parents made

7:12 the decision because they were trying to protect you?

7:15 Uh, it could be.

7:16 Yeah.

7:16 I mean, like, it was more the Yeah,

7:18 I guess it was more just the um it was better off for me to be in this.

7:25 I think the with the uh Yeah, it was better off for me to be in this in this um

7:32 in in this system that we had there

7:34 because of the trouble that I got myself into.

7:36 It was You were hard for your parents to raise.

7:38 I was hard, man.

7:39 I was Yeah, definitely.

7:40 Yeah.

7:40 You know, I uh you talk about the welfare system and I remember

7:45 my parents were you they were we were using some of that the food

7:50 stamps and all those things to try to live and I remember

7:52 my parents made a choice to try to do it without it, right?

7:55 And it really did uh it really did help me, right?

8:00 Sometimes parents have to make decisions for us

8:03 that we don't necessarily recognize because

8:06 when we stop taking the government assistance,

8:08 it got a little harder and things got a little tighter.

8:12 But then I understand today as a man and being the person

8:15 that I am and my willingness to work for everything that I have,

8:19 but it was the right decision cuz they showed me

8:20 that I could try to do it on my own.

8:22 And possibly that's what was happening with you.

8:25 But I can't imagine as a young boy the feeling of God man this uh this is tough.

8:33 It was tough but at times I was I felt like I was in um um

8:36 you went with some rich people.

8:38 Yeah.

8:38 You Yeah.

8:39 Like different homes.

8:40 You'd have like rich families.

8:41 You'd stay with rich families but then you which taught you different manners,

8:45 different um views of life, different you know waking up and having

8:49 to fold your clothes or things like that.

8:50 So it just taught you different um things in life right?

8:54 whereas some other families were just and it made me understand

8:58 that not everyone's going to every family is going to be the same.

9:01 Everyone's going to have their own flaws and their own um amazing life.

9:06 But but um I think that's what's built me

9:09 into what I am today and my belief system.