Carlos Prates added one more spotlight reel knockout to his resume, however this time he took out a 30-plus struggle UFC veteran in Neil Magny.
In his first major occasion at UFC Vegas 100, Prates staved off some early takedown makes an attempt, after which delivered a brutal left hook that bounced off the highest of Magny’s head and despatched him crashing face first right down to the canvas. The referee rushed in to cease the struggle with the tip coming a 4:50 within the opening spherical.
The win moved Prates to 4-0 within the UFC with all 4 fights taking place in 2024 and all 4 ending by knockout.
“Feeling superior,” Prates mentioned afterwards. “This yr was thus far the very best yr of my life, of my profession. It’s a variety of arduous work. I can’t clarify how completely happy I’m proper now.”
The sky seems to be the restrict for Prates, who confirmed persistence coping with a real veteran of the sport in Magny earlier than organising his devastating end.
When the motion obtained began, it took nearly no time for Magny to search for a takedown however Prates resisted after which he truly scored a reversal because the welterweights fell to the ground. Relatively than enjoying too lengthy on the bottom, Prates backed out to get the struggle again to the ft however Magny was fast to shut the space once more in an try to make use of his grappling.
When Prates lastly shrugged him off, the Brazilian uncorked a lightning fast proper hand that put Magny down on the canvas in a flash and that was basically the start of the tip.
With Magny on wobbly legs, Prates was charging ahead and searching for the punches that may forestall this struggle from seeing a second spherical. Magny did his greatest to outlive as he desperately tried to seize onto a leg however he was backing up in opposition to the cage with out wherever to flee Prates’ wrath.
Prates measured up his photographs and commenced unloading however simply as Magny tried to duck out of the way in which, he obtained clipped with the left hook that bounced off his head. A cut up second later, Magny was unconscious on the bottom with the referee waving off the struggle.
It was one other spectacular exhibiting for Prates, who solely has 4 fights within the UFC, however he’s already incomes fairly a repute to this point. With this win, Prates has nearly assured himself one other marquee matchup and he positively has some concepts in thoughts for what comes subsequent.
“To be trustworthy, I feel the proper struggle could be in Australia as a result of I’ve a daughter there,” Prates revealed. “Battle there in Australia in opposition to Jack Della Maddalena. All respect to this man.
“I don’t know if it’s too far-off as a result of we’ve the rankings and issues like that however in opposition to Jack Della Maddalena it could be superb but additionally I feel it could be a very good struggle in opposition to Geoff Neal.”