Carlos Prates

And that's why he won against a guy who is now looking like the terror of his division.

Ian Gary neutered Carlos Prates with bullshit.

And that's not to say he didn't land anything, but it's low risk, low commitment, volume, and just getting the defensive reactions out of the opponent to control the initiative.

And I think if you look at this fight in that vein, you can see that one of the major keys of the turn about halfway through is that before the halfway point of the fight, Pyoryon is not successfully punishing or countering anything.

What used to be – and I'll just lay it out there.

I – I see a lot of outrage that this fight with Carlos Perez and Michael Morales is going to have an interim belt attached.

I see a lot of people, even saw Jacoby Smith at the media day saying, I think it's dumb that there's an interim belt.

But I'm going to be honest with you.

It's just all very unfortunate.

Um, there was a lot of rumors about potentially Islam and Carlos Prates, but we've got what we've got.

It is an incredible fight.

I am riding with the nerds.

The problem is the narrative with him is he's unbeatable, and he's already calling out his date of when he's going to fight for a title.

And this is when he's going to be ready and how he can already beat Pradas.

He could already beat Morales.

Well, be careful because Randy Brown's in front of you.

And Islam says he might not fight again until June, which kinda sucks.

Cause him and Carlos Prates is a banger of a fight.

Islam says he may not fight again until June.

I didn't even see that.

Um, Yeah, I think there's a lot of fights to be had.

Look, there was some stuff going on over the weekend where they basically talked about Michael Morales fighting Carlos Prates.

And the UFC apparently, let me just preface all this.

Let me shape this argument here.

That's different.

To

me, that's a way more dangerous fight for Islam than the Carlos Prates fight.

Well, because we just don't have a big enough sample size of him having any struggles at all inside the cage.

I already predicted that I don't care which one.

I think Prates and Morales both will knock him out.

So I'm frustrated by this move.

And I know people call me a hater, but I've admitted since day one is being an Islam Mahatchev hater.