Carlos Prates gained’t have interaction in an internet confrontation with Ian Machado Garry going into their UFC Kansas City predominant occasion bout on April 26, however he gained’t go away Garry’s pictures unanswered both.
Garry took on social media to poke fun of Prates for a previous MMA loss in China, when he stop mid-fight, saying the Brazilian confirmed the “true preventing spirit“ of a “quitter.”
“We already anticipated that to occur,” Prates stated of Garry’s verbal assaults. “It’s regular for him to do it. He in all probability has a whole lot 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 targeted on the struggle. However that’s a part of the sport. He desires to promote the struggle, to be extra recognized, to be hyped. I feel that’s additionally essential, it’s a part of the sport, like I stated in my video [response]. I feel it’s attention-grabbing.”
Prates pocketed $50,000 bonuses for each single one in all his 4 UFC knockouts over Trevin Giles, Charles Radtke, Jingliang Li and Neil Magny in 2024, and stated that Garry will in the end thank him after their predominant occasion conflict.
“Let’s see after the struggle,” Prates stated. “We’ve [nine] days left earlier than the struggle, [nine] days for the cage door to be closed and nobody says something anymore. And we’ll get it finished the best way it’s speculated to. And I assure you he’ll be thanking me. Deep in there, he is aware of I picked this struggle. 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 gained one bonus, poor man. And now he has the chance to be the primary occasion, a possibility to make more cash. First, as a result of he took this struggle on brief discover solely as a result of they supplied him some huge cash. And second, he’s the primary occasion. After this struggle, regardless that he’ll get a beating, he’ll thank me for the chance I gave him to make good cash.”
Prates is all the time seeking to knock folks unconscious contained in the cage, however gained’t take Garry’s phrase to coronary heart and use it as some kind of further motivation for a beating.
“I don’t wish to beat him [more], it doesn’t trouble me,” Prates stated. “I wish to go there and win the best way I all the time 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 struggle, however I wish to win the best way I like, a manner that brings extra money, a manner that brings me a bonus, and that’s it.”
As for the MMA bout talked about by Garry, the Combating Nerds welterweight stated he wasn’t in preferrred circumstances attributable to lack of coaching.
“I used to be in actually unhealthy form,” Prates stated. “I used to be in China for a month and had two kickboxing fights after which went to struggle MMA. And I had already been poked onerous within the eye. I couldn’t struggle, brother. [I was] in China for a month, not coaching for a very long time, freaking chilly, chopping 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 completely different than what he noticed in that video.”
