Ian Machado Garry is assured he’ll put a cease to the Combat Nerds hype at UFC Kansas City.
“The Future” headlines the April 26 card in a welterweight bout towards fast-rising contender Carlos Prates. It’s been an unbelievable begin to Prates’ UFC profession because the hard-hitting Brazilian has received his first 4 fights for the promotion, all by knockouts that garnered him Efficiency of the Night time bonuses. Total, Prates has received 11 straight fights as he heads into his conflict with the No. 6-ranked Garry.
Garry isn’t impressed. In a lately uploaded clip, he was proven critiquing one in every of Prates’ previous losses, calling him a “quitter.”
“This can be a video of Carlos Prates and his true combating spirit,” Garry mentioned. “It’s known as being a quitter.”
“He had simply been overwhelmed up all of the rounds prior,” Garry continued. “Places his hand up, shakes his head, says, ‘I’m completed,’ after which simply drops to the bottom in absolute despair as a result of he is aware of that deep down he’s not a fighter.”
The bout in query includes Prates struggling a loss to Mikhail Romanchuk in January 2017 at an occasion in China. Watch that full struggle under.
Garry is in error mentioning “rounds prior” because the bout resulted in a bit over two minutes into Spherical 1, however the motion did go poorly for Prates. Romanchuk got here out throwing haymakers and by no means stopped, placing Prates on protection at some stage in the struggle. An alternate of heavy punches towards the fence preceded the TKO end.
Following that loss, Prates went on to win 14 of his subsequent 15 bouts, with solely a type of victories needing the scorecards (it must also be famous 5 of Prates’ six profession lasses have come by knockout or submission within the first spherical). His previous two wins have come towards veterans Neil Magny and Li Jingliang, however this marks Prates’ first alternative to crack the highest 10 of the at all times aggressive welterweight division.
Garry (15-1) is coming off of the primary lack of his professional profession. He stepped in on brief discover to struggle unbeaten contender Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310 this previous December and misplaced a unanimous choice after a aggressive three-round struggle. Previous to that contest, Garry had received his first eight UFC fights.
