{"id":959693,"date":"2026-11-05T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959693\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:44:12","slug":"exclusive-carlos-prates-reveals-how-he-plans-to-finish-michael-morales-at-ufc-336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959693\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Carlos Prates Reveals How He Plans To Finish Michael Morales At UFC 336"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u203a<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/mma-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u203a<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExclusive: Carlos Prates Reveals How He Plans to Finish Michael Morales at UFC 336<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/tag\/carlos-prates\/\" title=\"Carlos Prates\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35720\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Prates<\/a> has given his two cents on how he plans to finish Michael Morales at UFC 336.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For starters, Prates, the top welterweight contender, is not happy after reigning champion <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/tag\/Islam-Makhachev\/\" title=\"Islam Makhachev\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35722\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islam Makhachev<\/a> declined to fight him in January despite verbally agreeing to the matchup at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Brazilian, who has knocked out two former UFC champions back-to-back and is currently riding a three-fight knockout streak, now has to first defeat Morales at UFC 336, capture the interim title, and then dethrone Makhachev to claim the undisputed welterweight throne. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" alt=\"Carlos Prates\" class=\"wp-image-624218 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/carlos-prates-new-1024x536.png\"  data-\/>Image via: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Prates On How He Plans to Finish Michael Morales at UFC 336<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a recent exclusive interview with LowKick MMA, conducted with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/ca\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Squawka<\/a>, Carlos Prates was asked how he plans to finish Michael Morales at UFC 336. When answering, Prates opined that fight night, once the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" title=\"octagon\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35721\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">octagon<\/a> door shuts, he will be doing what he loves the most and what he has done to win every UFC fight so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course by knockout, like always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Nightmare\u201d also added that he plans to drag the undefeated Ecuadorian fighter into deep waters before finishing him in the third round:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGet my bonus, maybe third round or something like that. Is it going to be fireworks? Yes, I want to get the bonus again against Morales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morales is also riding a three-fight streak of first-round knockout wins. So fans can expect the UFC 336 co-main event to deliver \u201cfireworks\u201d when the two heavy knockout artists collide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" alt=\"Carlos Prates, Islam Makhachev, Michael Morales\" class=\"wp-image-659115 perfmatters-lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9104794793465267;width:872px;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Untitled-design-2-1024x536.png\"  data-\/>Carlos Prates Explains Why Islam Makhachev Is a Better Striker Than Michael Morales. [Images via Getty]<\/p>\n<p>Why did Islam Makhachev decide not to fight Carlos Prates at UFC 336?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islam Makhachev believes that since Carlos Prates has lost to Ian Machado Garry, whom Makhachev beat at UFC 330, Prates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/carlos-prates-blasts-coward-islam-makhachev-for-acting-like-an-ashole\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">must now fight<\/a> Michael Morales and win before getting a title shot. Makhachev has also revealed that his next fight would be one of the final bouts of his career. As a result, he wants to take on the best of the best rather than settle for just the top contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out Islam Makhachev\u2019s comments below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My next fight is one of the last in my career. <\/p>\n<p>They say Prates is too dangerous for me and Morales is too good for me. <\/p>\n<p>So I want to face the best of them and prove to the world once again who is the best in world. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bQSw97TzNe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bQSw97TzNe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Makhachev Islam (@MAKHACHEVMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA\/status\/2116252407957164375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home \u203a MMA News \u203a Exclusive: Carlos Prates Reveals How He Plans to Finish Michael Morales at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-959693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959693","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=959693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}