GDT: UFC on ESPN: Garry vs. Prates

[MMC]

Date: April 26, 2025
Venue: T-Mobile Center
City: Kansas City, Missouri
Time: 9:00 pm ET/6:00 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN2, Sportsnet

MAIN CARD (ESPN2, Sportsnet)

Welterweight bout: Ian Garry vs. Carlos Prates
Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Smith vs. Zhang Mingyang
Featherweight bout: Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama
Middleweight bout: Michel Pereira vs. Abus Magomedov
Welterweight bout: Randy Brown vs. Nicolas Dalby
Middleweight bout: Ikram Aliskerov vs. Andre Muniz

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, Sportsnet+)

Flyweight bout: Matt Schnell vs. Jimmy Flick
Lightweight bout: Evan Elder vs. Gauge Young
Featherweight bout: Chris Gutierrez vs. John Castaneda
Bantamweight bout: Da'Mon Blackshear vs. Alatengheili
Bantamweight bout: Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cameron Saaiman
Women's Strawweight bout: Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana
Featherweight bout: Timmy Cuamba vs. Roberto Romero
Women's Bantamweight bout: Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards​

 

[FilHronek Orchestra]

Pretty good main event in that it's two strivers squaring off head to head instead of each taking on some gatekeepers.

 

[Taytro]

What a fight and what knockout by Brown. Those guys just decided to go, that's the type of fight Dana loves.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Anthony smith should’ve retired years ago

 

[Sheppy]

Jesus.

6/6 on my parlay but Garry had me worried there towards the end.

 

[CDJ]

I finished a couple units up because I had a lot riding on Wellmaker, Amorim Sub, and Zhang but if Prates could have somehow found that KO at the end….


Solid card

 

[16Skippy]

Good main event but not sure how I feel about Garry almost blowing it in the end.

And what was with Smith getting mad at the fat guy in the crowd? I had the volume off for that one.

 

[FilHronek Orchestra]

This was decent. Banged out the prelims and main card both after getting home from the NLL playoff game. Go Warriors. Buffalo next weekend.

 

[CDJ]

Michel pereira looked pretty washed out there, I wonder if he was sick or something

 

[I am not exposed]

Can someone provide a summary of the Ian Garry vs. Carlos Prates fight?

 

[16Skippy]

Can someone provide a summary of the Ian Garry vs. Carlos Prates fight?

Garry won the first 3 rounds pretty clearly, with active striking and mixing in takedown attempts but not doing a tonne of damage. The jab-highkick combo he kept throwing was really nice but still not doing a lot of damage.

In round 4 the momentum shifted and Prates found his mark and hurt Garry more than he had been hurt previously. Round 5 Prates got on top I think he swept or reversed a takedown attempt, landed some good shots while Garry was down and had him hurt pretty bad but couldn't put him away.

48-47 Garry is probably the right call.

 

[Taytro]

Garry won the first 3 rounds pretty clearly, with active striking and mixing in takedown attempts but not doing a tonne of damage. The jab-highkick combo he kept throwing was really nice but still not doing a lot of damage.

In round 4 the momentum shifted and Prates found his mark and hurt Garry more than he had been hurt previously. Round 5 Prates got on top I think he swept or reversed a takedown attempt, landed some good shots while Garry was down and had him hurt pretty bad but couldn't put him away.

48-47 Garry is probably the right call.

I would add that Garry seemed to use the high kick to occupy Prates left hand and he threw it constantly in the first 3 rounds. In the 4th his output fell off and Prates started stalking him.

Garry also mixed in a lot of takedown attempts (or partial takedown attempts) that he didn't seem to always commit to, just to keep Prates guessing. Prates defended them easily early on, but eventually Garry got a few of them.

I wouldn't have been mad with a stoppage in the 5th, it was borderline but Prates was bouncing Garry's head off the canvas for a little while there and Garry barely got out. But outside of those few fleeting moments Garry's IQ and gameplan seemed to dominate the fight.

Edit: I remember the broadcast also thinking something has happened to one of Garry's arms in the 4th or 5th but idk what came of that.

 

[Sheppy]

Michel pereira looked pretty washed out there, I wonder if he was sick or something

I don't know what the f*** his gameplan was. He looked terrified.