{"id":286005,"date":"2025-11-16T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:34:09","slug":"ufc-322-live-blog-leon-edwards-vs-carlos-prates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286005\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322 live blog: Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the UFC 322 live blog for Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates, the main card welterweight bout Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Edwards (22-5, 1 NC) is mired in the first losing streak of his career, having dropped the welterweight title to Belal Muhammad in July and then being finished for the first time in his career by Sean Brady. \u201cRocky\u201d still holds on to the No. 5 spot at 170 pounds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/rankings\/452384\/mma-divisional-rankings-4-ufc-champions-target-2026-to-continue-reigns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting Global Rankings<\/a>, but a loss to Prates could send him tumbling down the charts and possibly out of title contention forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the other side, Prates (22-7) aims to make his first run to a championship opportunity. Prates, currently ranked No. 10, suffered his first UFC loss to Ian Machado Garry in April, but rebounded in impressive fashion with a first-round knockout of Geoff Neal at UFC 319. When Prates hits, his opponents rarely recover, as evidenced by his 17 knockouts, including five inside the octagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the UFC 322 live blog for Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It goes without saying this is a must-win for Edwards, who might never get a chance to regain the welterweight title if he lays an egg against Prates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC 322 live blog for Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates, the main card welterweight bout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-286005","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286005","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=286005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}