{"id":648947,"date":"2026-05-04T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648947\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:58:16","slug":"carlos-prates-i-should-be-next-for-winner-of-islam-makhachev-vs-ian-machado-garry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648947\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates: \u2018I should be next\u2019 for winner of Islam Makhachev vs. Ian Machado Garry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now 7-1 in the UFC with seven knockouts and seven post-fight bonuses won, Prates said Maddalena was tougher than he expected, but stilled pulled off the third-round knockout he expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI should be next,\u201d Prates said at the post-fight press conference. \u201cNobody beats two former champs on that really good way. They never do by knockout and then I come there and make it look easy. I respect to them, they are tough. But against Leon, against \u2018JDM,\u2019 I make it look like easy. And I\u2019m the next. Nobody did it. Of course you have Morales, but Morales didn\u2019t fight a former champ. I beat you former champs. So I will be the next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prates told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/482468\/carlos-prates-reveals-ufc-title-fight-plan-with-ian-machado-garry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a> in April he had a \u201cplan\u201d in the works with Ian Machado Garry, saying the Irishman \u2014 the only man to beat him in the UFC \u2014 would defeat Islam Makhachev to win the UFC title and then rematch in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has yet to announce Makhachev\u2019s next opponent, but Prates believes it makes sense and plans on waiting for whoever wins that bout. He\u2019s also down to challenging the Russian, and said his victory over Maddalena also shows he\u2019s ready to face a wrestler like Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI was thinking about the bonus,\u201d he said of not rushing for a finish when Maddalena dropped due to calf kicks. \u201cI feel like his leg was hurt and he was bleeding. I was talking with him like, \u2018You become a wrestler now? You want to try takedown?\u2019 And he also was talking with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI was not worried about takedown. A lot of people are gonna say, \u2018Oh, how can Carlos can fight Islam because in the first round he got tripped by JDM?\u2019 If you see like when he comes to take me down I just opened my arm like, \u2018Ah, you now you become a wrestler and take me down? I\u2019m not scared about takedowns. I\u2019m not scared. I\u2019m BJJ black belt, you know? After hurting him, I feel like he\u2019s out of the fight he don\u2019t gonna knock me out, he don\u2019t gonna do any damage to me, now I need to get the bonus. \u2018OK, now let\u2019s bring the fight to the way it will give me the bonus.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now 7-1 in the UFC with seven knockouts and seven post-fight bonuses won, Prates said Maddalena was tougher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-648947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648947","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=648947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}