{"id":422827,"date":"2026-05-03T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:26:07","slug":"jack-della-maddalena-bloodied-and-dazed-in-brutal-ufc-loss-to-carlos-prates-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422827\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Della Maddalena bloodied and dazed in brutal UFC loss to Carlos Prates | UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Della Maddalena has suffered the most brutal loss of his UFC<\/a> career, with the former welterweight champion beaten to a pulp in a one-sided loss to Carlos Prates in Perth.<\/p>\n

In his first fight since losing his crown to future hall of famer Islam Makhachev in New York, Della Maddalena (18-4) struggled from the outset of Saturday night\u2019s bout against knockout machine Prates (24-7).<\/p>\n

Della Maddalena\u2019s right leg copped a battering from early in the fight, but it looked like there was a path to victory when the West Australian easily took down his opponent in the dying seconds of the opening round.<\/p>\n

The path forward for Della Maddalena was simple: take down his opponent and get the submission win in front of a home town crowd.<\/p>\n

Easier said than done.<\/p>\n

Prates unleashed a series of knees to Della Maddalena\u2019s face to leave the former champion bloodied and stunned.<\/p>\n

The jabs and elbows were also brutal, and the 29-year-old crashed to the canvas in pain late in the second round when Prates kicked his leading leg.<\/p>\n

It left Della Maddalena with a limp, and he was taken down in similar fashion twice more in the third round.<\/p>\n

Each time that happened, Prates motioned his opponent to get up to his feet, knowing a knockout blow wasn\u2019t far away.<\/p>\n

With a little less than two minutes remaining in the round, Della Maddalena hit the canvas again.<\/p>\n

And with Della Maddalena showing no desire to get up this time around, Prates kicked at his grounded opponent and then unleashed a series of brutal elbows before the fight was stopped.<\/p>\n

Carlos Prates celebrates with his mother after the win. Photograph: Ed Mulholland\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n

\u201cJack has really good hands. I was really scared about his hands,\u201d Prates said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I believed I\u2019m a better striker. I can punch, I can knee, I can kick.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m better, and now I\u2019m the No 1 contender, and I can\u2019t wait to see Makhachev-Machado, and then I\u2019m going to fight the winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrazil has never had a champion in the welterweight division. I will be the first.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, West Australia\u2019s Quillan Salkilld (12-1) produced yet another first-round knockout win, defeating veteran Beneil Dariush in their lightweight battle.<\/p>\n

Salkilld was left stunned and momentarily hit the canvas after copping a brutal jab just 23 seconds into the contest.<\/p>\n

Dariush went in for the take down a short time later, and Salkilld spent the next two minutes trying to get out of the grapple.<\/p>\n

Quillan Salkilld broke free of a grapple and unleashed a series of punches to win. Photograph: Richard Wainwright\/AAP<\/p>\n

When Salkilld finally got free, he unleashed a series of brutal jabs and hooks to stun Dariush, who by the end of it was left on the canvas protecting his head as the local fan favourite rained down a series of blows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew he was going to wrestle, I was excited to do some of the wrestling exchanges,\u201d Salkilld said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ended up having a scrap, he stunned me a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut us Aussies are fucking tough, so it\u2019s going to take a lot more than that to put us away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flyweight Steve Erceg made it two wins on the trot with a unanimous decision victory over Tim Elliott in their flyweight battle.<\/p>\n

After an even first round in which both fighters enjoyed their moments, Erceg (14-4) pummelled Elliott (22-14-1) with a series of powerful jabs over rounds two and three to leave his opponent flailing.<\/p>\n

All three judges scored it 29-28 to Erceg, whose orthodox fighting style was far too superior for the twitchy, unpredictable and often kamikaze methods of Elliott.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew he\u2019d be weird,\u201d Erceg said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a clash between ugly and pretty. Textbook versus unorthodox.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Della Maddalena has suffered the most brutal loss of his UFC career, with the former welterweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-422827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}