One of the great emerging figures in the UFC for his fighting style is Carlos Prates. Last Saturday, the Brazilian welterweight shocked mixed martial arts fans by achieving a new KO over veteran Neil Magny, in a blow that barely seemed to have made an impact. Grazing the side of his head was enough to turn off the American’s lights.
With this victory, Prates took the 15th place in the ranking from Magny, making it clear that the Fighting Nerds fighter is positioned as one of the new dangers of the division. “I can’t explain how happy I am right now.”said the Brazilian in his post-fight interview. Prates (21-6-0) has four wins in the UFC this year and has offered to fight Jack Della Maddalena in his next fight.
Prates owes part of his success to the gym of which he is a member, the aforementioned Fighting Nerds. This Brazilian group is undefeated in the UFC and has fighters like Caio Borralho, Mauricio Ruffy and Jean Silva, who are also causing a sensation in their respective divisions. On Carlos’s part, he came to the company through Dana White’s Contender Series in August 2023.
So far everything is relatively normal. An emerging force that promises to conquer the division coming from below. But madness takes over the fans when he reveals his ‘secret’: «I have lived more years smoking than without smoking. So for me it’s normal, I smoke before the fight, the day of the fight, it’s normal,” he said on one occasion.
Now, after his resounding victory against Magny, he was interviewed by journalist Ariel Helwani on his ‘talkshow’, where he revealed that he smokes up to “8 or 10 cigarettes a day.” Without a doubt, a different type of pasta, since it is well known that fighters at these levels need a very healthy life to be able to give maximum performance in each fight.
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