{"id":646416,"date":"2026-05-03T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:38:08","slug":"carlos-prates-punishes-jack-della-maddalena-at-ufc-fight-night-australia-mixed-martial-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646416\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates punishes Jack Della Maddalena at UFC Fight Night Australia | Mixed Martial Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Brazil\u2019s Prates crushes hometown hero Maddalena in the Perth fight; challenges the winner of Makhachev vs Garry.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 3 May 20263 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian welterweight Carlos Prates dominated hometown fighter Jack Della Maddalena to win their main event clash at UFC Fight Night in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Prates dropped the Aussie to the canvas with a chopping calf kick late in the second round and knocked him down three more times in the third \u2013 with a big knee, a head kick and a leg kick \u2013 before the referee stopped the fight on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Prates called for a match against the winner of the still-unconfirmed upcoming welterweight title fight between champion Islam Makhachev and Ian Machado Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can punch, I can knee, I can kick \u2026 so I\u2019m better, and now I feel like I\u2019m the number one contender,\u201d Prates said after his win. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to see Makhachev and Ian, and then I\u2019m going to fight the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prates, 32, won his third straight fight and improved to 24-7 with 19 wins by knockout (KO). Della Maddalena, 29, lost his second straight fight to fall to 18-4 with 12 wins by KO.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4540544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFP__20250520__2214449407__v2__HighRes__Ufc315MuhammadVsDellaMaddalena-1777785395.jpg\" alt=\"MONTREAL, QUEBEC - MAY 10: Jack Della Maddalena of Australia reacts as he enters the octagon prior to a welterweight title bout against Belal Muhammad of the United States during UFC 315 at Bell Centre on May 10, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec. Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images\/AFP (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Jack Della Maddalena is a former UFC welterweight champion [File: Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images via AFP]<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Quillan Salkilld, 26, won the co-main event and improved to 12-1 with a first-round technical knockout (TKO) victory against lightweight Beneil Dariush, 36.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the main card, flyweight Steve Erceg defeated Tim Elliott by unanimous decision; featherweight Marwan Rahiki won by TKO against Ollie Schmid; heavyweight Brando Pericic knocked out Shamil Gaziev in the second round; and heavyweight Louie Sutherland beat Tai Tuivasa by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Prates crushes hometown hero Maddalena in the Perth fight; challenges the winner of Makhachev vs Garry. Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,64,63,10280,44,588],"class_list":["post-646416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}