{"id":501684,"date":"2026-02-26T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:58:08","slug":"caio-borralho-carlos-prates-would-be-a-bad-fight-for-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501684\/","title":{"rendered":"Caio Borralho: Carlos Prates would be a bad fight for Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors of Carlos Prates vs. Conor McGregor caught Caio Borralho by surprise.<\/p>\n

When McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) said that he’s been offered a no name in the UFC’s welterweight division, rumors sparked that it could be Borralho’s Fighting Nerds teammate Prates (23-7 MMA, 6-1 UFC).<\/p>\n

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However, Prates debunked those claims<\/a> by saying that he wasn’t told anything by the UFC yet.<\/p>\n

“Bro, to be honest with you, I don’t have a clue about any of this,” Borralho told MMA Junkie in an interview facilitated by Stake<\/a>. “I promise you. I just saw today the poster and I commented, ‘What?’ I sent right away a message to Carlos, but he didn’t respond yet. I said, ‘What the f*ck? Are you fighting McGregor, brother? Bro, if this is true and you didn’t tell me, I’m going to f*cking kill you!’ I’m in the same spot as you guys. I hope from the bottom of my heart this fight is true and they can fight. It’s going to be a freaking good fight, brother. So I’m waiting on that \u2013 let’s see.”<\/p>\n

If the fight were to come to fruition, Borralho says it would be a bad night for McGregor.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t think it’s a good fight for McGregor because they’re both southpaws. Carlos is going to kick him a lot in the calf, and he’s got bigger knockout power,” Borralho said. “I don’t think it’s a good fight for McGregor.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Caio Borralho reacts to Carlos Prates vs. Conor McGregor fight rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors of Carlos Prates vs. Conor McGregor caught Caio Borralho by surprise. When McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[24169,49,32140,48,39552,639,641,638,1302,82,640],"class_list":["post-501684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-borralho","tag-ca","tag-caio-borralho","tag-canada","tag-carlos-prates","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501684","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=501684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}