Brazilian Carlos Prates was one of the highlights of UFC 319, played on Saturday night (16/08), in Chicago. The fighter won the confrontation against Geoff Neal with an impressive knockout, a swivel knockout (see video below), a movement that yielded the night’s performance award, worth $ 50,000 (about $ 270,000).
CARLOS PRATES WITH THE KO #UFC319 pic.twitter.com/uarfhQa4qH
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The result gave even more prominence to Prates in the middleweight division, yielding a fifth UFC victory, all by knockout.
In addition to the Brazilian, Tim Elliott’s flyweight weight, Lerone Murphy weight weight and new Mud-Weight Champion Khamzat Chimaev were also awarded.
– Let’s celebrate. Too good (earn $ 50,000). It’s hard already, in the last I didn’t get the bonus, now you can breathe. (The elbow) is something I trained, as well as the shot, and the goal was to move me a lot while his hand was hard. But I took a blow and saw that his hand was not as hard as I thought. I thought it was time to stop moving and focus more on hitting him, hurt, and that’s what I did. I didn’t even hear that 10 seconds were missing to finish the round. I was so focused on the guy, his hands, not taking a blow, which I didn’t even know there was a second to end, ”said Carlos Prates after the fight.
Who is Carlos Prates?
Carlos Prates is a 32-year-old fighter, 1.85 and 77kg, acting in the middleweight division for the Fighting Nerds team.
Known as “Nightmare”, he has a six wins cartel and a defeat. Before knocking out Geoff Neal, he came from defeat to Irishman Ian Machado Garry in April.
With the victory, “Nightmare” was able to confirm his participation at UFC Rio, on October 11, with the right to “choice” of an opponent, in a message for boss Dana White: the Brazilian wants to face Leon Edwards.
