{"id":37279,"date":"2026-03-18T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Carlos-Prates-reveals-pick-for-potential-Islam-MakhachevIan-Garry-fight-200503"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:04:46","slug":"carlos-prates-reveals-pick-for-potential-islam-makhachev-ian-garry-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/carlos-prates-reveals-pick-for-potential-islam-makhachev-ian-garry-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates reveals pick for potential Islam Makhachev-Ian Garry fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/carlos-prates-reveals-pick-for-potential-islam-makhachev-ian-garry-fight.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Carlos Prates has a lot of respect for Ian Garry. |<br \/>\nGetty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Carlos-Prates-95593\">Carlos<br \/>\nPrates<\/a> believes <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ian-Garry-268923\">Ian Garry<\/a> has<br \/>\nthe tools to beat <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Garry is currently among the frontrunners for the next welterweight<br \/>\ntitle shot against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a>. Prates believes that while it\u2019ll be an uphill task,<br \/>\nGarry has certain skills needed to beat Makhachev. However, if<br \/>\nPrates has to put his money on someone, he is certainly picking<br \/>\nMakhachev. But Prates really wants Garry to win so that he can<br \/>\navenge his loss against the Irishman in a title fight, hopefully in<br \/>\nBrazil.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cI think [Garry can beat Makhachev]. It\u2019s hard, but I think he has<br \/>\nsome skills needed to beat Islam,\u201d Prates said on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/uncrownedcombat\/status\/2034015663962853666\">&#8220;The Ariel Helwani Show.\u201d<\/a> \u201cIf I need to bet my money,<br \/>\nof course Islam. But I really want Ian to get the belt, and then we<br \/>\ndo a rematch in Brazil for the title.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Mutual Respect<\/h2>\n<p>Prates suffered his only loss in the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> against Garry last year. For \u201cThe Nightmare,\u201d avenging the<br \/>\nloss against Garry is more important than fighting a legend like<br \/>\nMakhachev.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get the revenge against Ian [is more important than beating<br \/>\nMakhachev],\u201d Prates said. \u201cWe have a really good relationship. We<br \/>\nhave a lot of respect for each other.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prates (23-7) has bounced back from the loss against Garry with<br \/>\nknockout wins over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Geoff-Neal-72107\">Geoff Neal<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Leon-Edwards-62665\">Leon<br \/>\nEdwards<\/a>. The Brazilian is now scheduled to fight former<br \/>\nchampion <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jack-Della-Maddalena-208155\">Jack<br \/>\nDella Maddalena<\/a> (18-3) in enemy territory at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-2-111890\">UFC Perth<\/a><br \/>\non May 2.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Prates has a lot of respect for Ian Garry. | Getty\/UFC Carlos Prates believes Ian Garry has the tools to beat Islam Makhachev.&nbsp; Garry is currently among the frontrunners for the next welterweight title shot against Islam Makhachev. Prates believes that while it\u2019ll be an uphill task, Garry has certain skills needed to beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}