{"id":652654,"date":"2026-05-06T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:36:07","slug":"carlos-prates-joins-welterweight-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652654\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates joins welterweight elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 2026, 10:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UFC Fight Night 275 took place last week at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, and PFL hosted an event in Sioux Falls, S.D., creating movement in some divisional rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the main event, Carlos Prates defeated his second former champion by making it look relatively easy against Jack Della Maddalena. Before the fight, Prates was ranked No. 6 in the welterweight division. After, he climbs to No. 4, while the former JDM, the former No. 2, falls to No. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the co-main event, lightweight Quillan Salkilld remained hot against Beneil Dariush. Salkilld needed less than one round to close the show, making a statement that he&#8217;s ready to take on the top names in the division. Salkilld enters the rankings at No. 14, taking Dariush&#8217;s former spot. Considering the high-level opposition of Dariush, despite a 1-4 run as of late, keeps the final ranking for now at No. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check out all of the moves in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/86527193007-ufc-320-t-mobile-arena-las-vegas-prefight-octagon-no-fans-crowd-2-via-ufc.png\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 5, 2026, 10:15 p.m. ET UFC Fight Night 275 took place last week at RAC Arena in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,315656,85,203779,203780,203781,235716,202563,206031,315657,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-652654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagmma-rankings","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpfl","tag-tagsioux-falls","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652654","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=652654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}