Carlos Prates most likely will get quite a lot of messages on social media, however one particularly stood out to him as he was making ready to make the journey to UFC Kansas City for his showdown in opposition to Ian Machado Garry.
The message got here from a fan named Randy, who has been battling esophageal most cancers. As a result of remedies he’s receiving, he’s been dropping his hair, so he requested the Brazilian star to shave his head after arriving in his hometown. It was a request Prates was very happy to meet as soon as he landed in Missouri this week.
“He’s educating me rather a lot this week,” Prates mentioned after assembly Randy on Wednesday. “Generally we’ve to be taught. We normally complain rather a lot about any little factor that occurs in our lives and [this] man is right here after a terminal most cancers analysis, he texted me to shave his head as a result of I’m his favourite fighter and man, we are able to see that our issues are nothing and this man is right here, he’s standing, he got here right here and mentioned he received’t surrender and I believe that’s what we’ve to maintain as a life lesson to by no means surrender similar to he’s doing combating in opposition to this illness that’s a really robust one.
“However I’m positive he’ll be effective. He’ll get higher and I hope in a few months I can come again right here and see him.”
Prates adopted by on his promise to shave Randy’s head and even offered him with an genuine pair of Preventing Nerds glasses afterwards.
The whole expertise appeared to make Randy’s day as he received to spend a while with Prates earlier than the welterweight contender goes to battle Saturday within the UFC Kansas Metropolis foremost occasion.
