Closed mouths are not fed in the UFC.
The UFC 319 -head card is underway, where Champion Drus Du Plessis takes on the unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of the evening.
Top welterweights also clashed in Chicago when the 'Fighting Nerds' Star Carlos Prates was rebooked against multi -year competitions Geoff Neal.
Coming from his first UFC loss for Ian Machado Garry in April, recovered prates with a wild rotating elbow knockout from Neal in the opening round of their welterweight fight.
Prates knew exactly what he wanted after he became the first man who eliminated Neal.
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Carlos Prates asked Dana White to sign a friend at UFC in interview after the fight
Prates asked UFC boss Dana White for a few things in his interview after the fight.
At the top of his list, Prates wants to fight on 11 October in UFC Rio, an upcoming fighting evening event in his home country of Brazil.
“Tomorrow will be my birthday,” Prates told White Cageside.
“Please give me a fight in Brazil,” said Prates.
'Sign my friend, my boy Marcus Degli. 11 [fight] Winning streak. LFA Flight Weight Champion, the best pound-for-Pound in Brazil. “
Degli is 13-3 a pro.
“Please let us fight in Rio. And 50k bonus. I have a party tomorrow. Let's go. Let's party,” Prates added.
White said he would give his $ 50,000 performance bonus and a fight in Rio.
Prates will be Sunday 33.
UFC 319 contained back-to-back spinning elbow ko's
Prates' rotating elbow Ko on UFC 319 was surprisingly not unique.
Although the performance is extremely rare, England's Lerone Murphy picked up a knockout by turning elbow in the fight immediately after he spoiled the UFC debut of Aaron Pico.
The JAW fell after Murphy de Ko van Prates succeeded with his and became the new #1 competition at Featherweight in the process.
UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski welcomed a fight with Murphy in the aftermath.