CHICAGO – To many, the idea of fighting dangerous striker Carlos Prates in his home country of Brazil might not be too appealing. However, it is for Michael Page.

Carlos Prates is back in a big way. After a disappointing loss in his last outing against Ian Machado Garry, the Fighting Nerds welterweight sent quite a message to the rest of the division at UFC 319 after the flattened Geoff Neal with a brutal spinning back elbow knockout at the close of the first

The spinning elbow is one of the most devastating and cinematic techniques in combat sports, a strike immortalized in Muay Thai by legends like Samson Isaan

Jason Herzog was the referee for the welterweight bout and he stopped the contest right at the final bell of round 1, after Neal had been dropped by the elbow in the final two seconds. A former UFC fighter wonders if the stoppage was premature.

The UFC 319 event in Chicago hosted a power-packed main card that delivered entertaining results with entertaining knockouts and a The post (Video): Dana White Hilariously Notices Presence of ‘Smoker’ Carlos Prates at UFC 319 Presser appeared first on FirstSportz.

Carlos Prates authored one of two spinning back elbow KOs at UFC 319. | Getty/UFC Carlos Prates’ post-fight honors were decided before he even exited the Octagon. The Fighting Nerds representative received a $50,

In back-to-back main card fights, Carlos Prates and Michael ‘Venom’ Page both proved why they are so exciting to watch every time they step inside the Octagon. Prates knocked out Geoff Neal in the first round to bounce back from the first defeat of his UFC career and get his welterweight momentum back on track.

Carlos Prates hopes to rebound with a win over one of the welterweight division’s toughest gatekeepers in Geoff Neal on the UFC 319 undercard. The explosive Prates will need to show marked improvement from his previous performance, and Neal is the right kind of opponent for him to recapture that lost momentum.

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