{"id":294656,"date":"2025-11-20T03:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294656\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:44:06","slug":"islam-makhachev-would-just-wreck-carlos-prates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294656\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev ‘would just wreck’ Carlos Prates"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

T.J. Dillashaw does not think Carlos Prates is ready for UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev \u2013 not even close to it.<\/p>\n

Prates (23-7 MMA, 6-1 UFC) called for a title shot<\/a> after knocking out former champion Leon Edwards (22-6 MMA, 14-5 UFC) this past Saturday at UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden in New York. But with Makhachev (28-1 MMA, 17-1 UFC) putting on a smothering grappling display over Jack Della Maddalena<\/a> to claim the belt in the main event, Dillashaw warns Prates that fighting Makhachev is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

“Maybe a little bit more more grappling awareness from Prates would help him out a lot,” Dillashaw said on the JAXXON PODCAST<\/a>. “Because you can see holes. This is 170, so the champion now, Islam would just wreck him. It would just be an easy fight. I don’t think Prates should be pushing for a title fight right now. Continue to build some star power because he’s a star, he’s entertaining. Take some smart fights because you lose your chance at a title by fighting Islam in my opinion.”<\/p>\n

When looking at the upper echelon of the welterweight division, Dillashaw admits Prates would have his hands full either way.<\/p>\n

“Even Sean Brady, Shavkat (Rakhmonov) would be a tough fight for him,” Dillashaw added. “Anyone above him is a tough f*cking fight for him. Belal Muhammad outwrestles him, Sean Brady’s got great grappling, as well, too, he’s very strong. Shavkat’s going to outgrapple him. It’s tough. I mean, Joaquin Buckley maybe the fight to make next. Both entertaining guys, both like to strike.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T.J. Dillashaw does not think Carlos Prates is ready for UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev \u2013 not even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[101906,76,130809,33311,49,48,641,8045,9463,23591,11517,37412,35796,4225,1262,638,23121,44051,44,1333,44056,82,865,29391,640,31121],"class_list":["post-294656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-101906","tag-arts","tag-belal","tag-belal-muhammad","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-garden","tag-islam","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-madison","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-makhachev","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-muhammad","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-square","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-322"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294656","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=294656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}