Jiri Prochazka’s baby mama details ‘challenging period alone’ as birth date lands on UFC 327 weekend

Jiri Prochazka is about to become a father for the first time, and it’s all happening at the same moment he’s set to fight for the light heavyweight title against Carlos Ulberg at UFC 327 on April 11th.

That leaves his longtime partner Kamila Kordulikova in a tough spot: she’s unable to travel to Miami with Jiri due to how far along her pregnancy is. If her due date holds, Prochazka will be able to fight and then rush back to the Czech Republic just in time for the birth of his daughter. But in a new video uploaded to Prochazka’s YouTube, she admits none of that is certain.

“What awaits me? I guess probably giving birth,” Kordulikova said of the situation. “And on top of that is uncertainty because Jiri is set to fly away for the last three weeks of the pregnancy. So it’s a bit mentally demanding, because you have to come to terms with the fact that I don’t know when [the baby] will come, right? I was told by my midwife that you don’t know the day or the hour, so you can’t really predict it. So it’s a bit demanding.”

“So what awaits me now is probably a challenging period alone, because in this state I can’t go anywhere.”

Kamila was asked whether Jiri has changed since learning he would be a father.

“Definitely completely, like it seems to me 100%,” she replied. “Especially all those relationship things, like, his approach to a lot of things has rapidly changed with regard to the fact that such a big responsibility is coming, so you need to direct some energy there. So it definitely changed him a lot.”

“In what direction, well I hope not in the fighting one. There I hope he’ll still be the same, just as aggressive, scrappy and relentless and persistent. That for sure, yes. I hope he changes, but only in family life, and in competition he stays the same.”

Kordulikova has been with Prochazka a long time, back when he was ‘a party legend’ fighting for Rizin FF in Japan. She detailed his evolution from the fighter he was there to where he is now.

“Well, maybe he was more — I don’t want to say cocky, but he went into the UFC with a different energy,” she said. “When he actually realized he wasn’t there anymore, there wasn’t as much room to play around. In Rizin it was different, there he could afford a lot more, sometimes risk way more. And I think that title fight, which he
ultimately took from Teixeira over five rounds, was absolutely exhausting … He probably realized there that he can’t play those games as much anymore. That here, you need to be completely precise.”

“So his approach has definitely changed since that fight, he now realizes that he can’t afford to — we always used to say, he’s like a turtle or a swan, always sticking his neck out somewhere. Before it worked out differently for him, so it wasn’t catastrophic or anything, it didn’t affect the fight that much. But now we know you can’t do that anymore. So I think he’s changed in his approach, in how seriously he takes the situation for sure.”

“When you win a UFC title that you’ve been chasing for years, of course it sweeps you up for a while,” she added. “So all that attention from the media and people in general, that was a big, big change. But I think no effect on him, as a person, his character, that didn’t change, just the environment around him shifted, changed and new things came and it was all pretty crazy for a time.”

Jiri Prochazka will get an opportunity to win the light heavyweight belt back when he faces Carlos Ulberg in the main event of UFC 327 on April 11th. Just don’t expect him to stick around for long after the fight ends.