{"id":38477,"date":"2026-05-26T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Carlos-Prates-reveals-midfight-conversation-with-Jack-Della-Maddalena-201329"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:24:09","slug":"carlos-prates-reveals-mid-fight-conversation-with-jack-della-maddalena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/carlos-prates-reveals-mid-fight-conversation-with-jack-della-maddalena\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Prates reveals mid-fight conversation with Jack Della Maddalena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/carlos-prates-reveals-mid-fight-conversation-with-jack-della-maddalena.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jack-Della-Maddalena-208155\">Jack<br \/>\nDella Maddalena<\/a> didn\u2019t stop responding to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Carlos-Prates-95593\">Carlos<br \/>\nPrates<\/a> despite being on the losing end of their<br \/>\nfight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prates (24-7) took on Maddalena (18-4) in enemy territory at<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-2-111890\">UFC<br \/>\nPerth<\/a> earlier this month. Prates picked apart the former<br \/>\nwelterweight champion before finishing him in the third round.<br \/>\nPrates recently revealed that he kept talking to Maddalena during<br \/>\nthe fight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Maddalena shot for a takedown in the opening round, Prates<br \/>\ntaunted him with <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Nate-Diaz-11451\">Nate Diaz<\/a>\u2019s<br \/>\nfamous quote, \u201cSo you\u2019re a wrestler now?\u201d Maddalena responded by<br \/>\nproclaiming himself a well-rounded fighter. When Prates started<br \/>\ndominating Maddalena, he apologized to the Australian, explaining<br \/>\nthat he was only a hurdle on the way to a title shot. Maddalena<br \/>\nurged Prates to go with him until the final bell. Prates was<br \/>\nimpressed with Maddalena\u2019s toughness.<\/p>\n<h2>A Little In-Fight Banter<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI started to talk with him, like, \u2018Ah, you become a grappler now?<br \/>\nYou\u2019re a wrestler?\u2019 And then he goes, \u2018Nah, I\u2019m a complete<br \/>\nfighter,\u2019\u201d Prates told Daniel Comier. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018No, you\u2019re<br \/>\nscared of me.\u2019&#8230; He\u2019s really tough. At one point in the fight, I<br \/>\nsaid, \u2018Hey, sorry, I don\u2019t want to hurt you. I just want title<br \/>\nshot.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Let\u2019s go to the end.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prates is confident that he will fight for the title in his next<br \/>\nfight. Reports suggest that Makhachev will defend his welterweight<br \/>\ntitle against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ian-Garry-268923\">Ian Garry<\/a><br \/>\nsoon. Prates believes he will challenge the winner of that fight<br \/>\nand is willing to wait for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYxqHHgS4qw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.28378378378378\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Della Maddalena didn\u2019t stop responding to Carlos Prates despite being on the losing end of their fight.&nbsp; Prates (24-7) took on Maddalena (18-4) in enemy territory at UFC Perth earlier this month. Prates picked apart the former welterweight champion before finishing him in the third round. Prates recently revealed that he kept talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38477","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\/38477","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=38477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}