{"id":282548,"date":"2025-11-14T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282548\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:39:10","slug":"carlos-prates-picks-jones-coaching-over-khabib-khabib-wouldnt-let-me-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282548\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates picks Jones coaching over Khabib: \u2018Khabib wouldn\u2019t let me smoke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speculation is for the bettors and bookies,<\/a> but one thing fellow main card fighter Carlos Prates knows is who he\u2019d rather train with. Prates is coming off an impressive first round KO win<\/a> over Geoff Neal and now faces Leon Edwards<\/a> in a fight with serious implications for the welterweight division. Even with so much on the line in every fight, Prates has his priorities set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho would you rather have as a coach: Craig Jones or Khabib,\u201d comedian Jon Bernard Kairouz asked Prates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Craig Jones, because he\u2019s gonna let me go to the party and smoke,\u201d Prates said. \u201cIf I train with Khabib, I think he\u2019s gonna break my video game, don\u2019t gonna let me smoke. Don\u2019t gonna let me go to the parties. So I think Craig Jones, although it would be really nice to train with Khabib.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prates is infamous for smoking cigarettes,<\/a> which you may be surprised to learn is a rare habit for MMA fighters looking to compete hard for 15 to 25 minutes. He argues that the dozen to 15 cigarettes he smokes per day helps him keep his weight down,<\/a> and to be fair the habit didn\u2019t seem to slow him down in his first 25 minute fight back in April 2025. He\u2019d lose that fight<\/a> to Ian Machado Garry, but not before almost staging a wild comeback in the final two minutes.<\/p>\n

Would Prates be even better under Khabib Nurmagomedov, who is known as a relentless coach<\/a> demanding steely discipline from his students? The Fighting Nerds accept Prates as he is and don\u2019t stop him from staying up all night partying. His lifestyle has gotten him up to No. 9 at welterweight and could jump him right into the top five with a win over Leon Edwards. So if it ain\u2019t broke, maybe don\u2019t fix it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation is for the bettors and bookies, but one thing fellow main card fighter Carlos Prates knows is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,127022,638,109794,82,127021,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-282548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-preview-and-live-results","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-322-fight-card","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}