Carlos Prates received’t interact in a web based disagreement with Ian Machado Garry going into their UFC Kansas Metropolis principal occasion bout on April 26, however he received’t go away Garry’s photographs unanswered both.
Garry took on social media to poke enjoyable of Prates for a previous MMA loss in China, when he give up mid-fight, saying the Brazilian confirmed the “true preventing spirit“ of a “quitter.”
“We already anticipated that to occur,” Prates mentioned of Garry’s verbal assaults. “It’s regular for him to do it. He most likely has a number of free time. I don’t, brother. On a regular basis I’m coaching, I’m doing my stuff, I’m doing interviews, I’m centered on the combat. However that’s a part of the sport. He desires to promote the combat, to be extra recognized, to be hyped. I believe that’s additionally vital, it’s a part of the sport, like I mentioned in my video [response]. I believe it’s attention-grabbing.”
Prates pocketed $50,000 bonuses for each single one in every of his 4 UFC knockouts over Trevin Giles, Charles Radtke, Jingliang Li and Neil Magny in 2024, and mentioned that Garry will in the end thank him after their principal occasion conflict.
“Let’s see after the combat,” Prates mentioned. “We’ve got [nine] days left earlier than the combat, [nine] days for the cage door to be closed and nobody says something anymore. And we’ll get it completed the way in which it’s speculated to. And I assure you he’ll be thanking me. Deep in there, he is aware of I picked this combat. I gave him the primary occasion.”
“He’s within the UFC for 4 years, if I’m not mistaken, and by no means headlined a card,” Prates continued. “He solely received one bonus, poor man. And now he has the chance to be the primary occasion, a chance to make more cash. First, as a result of he took this combat on brief discover solely as a result of they provided him some huge cash. And second, he’s the primary occasion. After this combat, regardless that he’ll get a beating, he’ll thank me for the chance I gave him to make good cash.”
Prates is at all times seeking to knock individuals unconscious contained in the cage, however received’t take Garry’s phrase to coronary heart and use it as some kind of additional motivation for a beating.
“I don’t wish to beat him [more], it doesn’t trouble me,” Prates mentioned. “I wish to go there and win the way in which I at all times do, you realize? I’m not a man that’s like, ‘Oh, I’ve to harm the man.’ No, brother. He has to do his stuff the following day. It is a enterprise, it’s cash, you realize? I’m being paid to go there and win the combat, however I wish to win the way in which I like, a manner that brings more cash, a manner that brings me a bonus, and that’s it.”
As for the MMA bout talked about by Garry, the Preventing Nerds welterweight mentioned he wasn’t in very best situations on account of lack of coaching.
“I used to be in actually unhealthy form,” Prates mentioned. “I used to be in China for a month and had two kickboxing fights after which went to combat MMA. And I had already been poked exhausting within the eye. I couldn’t combat, brother. [I was] in China for a month, not coaching for a very long time, freaking chilly, reducing weight and never consuming as a result of I couldn’t prepare. However that’s it. It’s a part of the work. It occurs. On the twenty sixth, it’s going to be manner totally different than what he noticed in that video.”
