{"id":846241,"date":"2026-08-04T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:24:09","slug":"ufc-330-islam-wants-michael-morales-to-get-off-his-ass-and-fight-carlos-prates-too-much-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846241\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 330: Islam wants Michael Morales to get off his ass and fight Carlos Prates \u2014 \u2018Too much contenders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201c[Morales] has to fight, bro,\u201d Makhachev told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/08\/04\/ufc-330-islam-makhachev-reacts-michael-morales-backup-title-fight\/91161727007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cWhen he fought last time? And he\u2019s waiting for the title fight or what? Too much contenders. I think [Morales] has to fight against (Carlos) Prates or maybe Shavkat (Rakhmonov). I don\u2019t know when (Rakhmonov) comes back. Too much contenders, we have to know who is the No. 1 contender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Morales (19-0) has been nothing short of unstoppable throughout his combat sports career and has blown through the welterweight ranks with little-to-no resistance. The 27-year-old Ecuadorian is coming off three straight knockouts, having recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/403185\/ufc-322-results-massive-michael-morales-mauls-sean-brady-in-nasty-knockout-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disposed of Sean Brady at UFC 322<\/a> last fall in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[Morales] has to fight, bro,\u201d Makhachev told MMA Junkie. \u201cWhen he fought last time? And he\u2019s waiting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-846241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846241","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=846241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}