While Carlos
Prates won’t be fighting at UFC
314 as originally planned, he has received an even bigger
matchup a couple weeks later.
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The Las Vegas-based promotion announced Tuesday that Prates will
lock horns with Ian Garry in
the new UFC
Kansas City headliner on April 26. A light heavyweight bout
pitting Jamahal
Hill against Khalil
Rountree was the card’s original main event. No reason was
given as to why that fight was scrapped.
Prates, who was slated to meet Geoff Neal at
UFC 314, has been victorious in his first four Octagon appearances
— all by way of knockout. Most recently,
The Fighting Nerds representative stopped Neil Magny in
the opening stanza in the UFC Fight Night 247 headliner this past
November. “The Nightmare” has won his last 11 professional outings
dating back to December 2019.
Garry, meanwhile, suffered his first loss in 16 pro bouts at
UFC
310, when he dropped a narrow five-round verdict to Shavkat
Rakhmonov on Dec. 7. Prior to that, the 27-year-old Irishman
was 8-0 in the promotion, earning notable wins over the likes of
Michael
Page, Neal and Magny.
NEW MAIN EVENT ALERT 🚨@IanGarryMMA
vs Carlos Prates will headline
#UFCKansasCity! pic.twitter.com/zjdlQbHWiQ— UFC (@ufc)
April 1, 2025