The UFC’s return to Kansas City now features an electrifying new main event.
On Tuesday, the UFC confirmed a high-stakes welterweight showdown between Ian Garry and Carlos Prates as the headline bout for the Fight Night card set to take place on April 26 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
The announcement comes in the wake of the previously scheduled main event between top-ranked light heavyweight Jamahal Hill and Khalil Rountree Jr. being scrapped for undisclosed reasons.
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"The Future" is set to make his comeback after suffering the first loss of his career, a hard-fought unanimous decision to undefeated Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310 this past December. Prior to that, Garry had been riding the momentum of an eight-fight winning streak in the UFC, building on his flawless record through 15 professional bouts.
Meanwhile, Prates was last seen in November, where he secured a first-round knockout over Neil Magny at a Fight Night event. "The Nightmare" is riding a wave of momentum, holding a perfect 4-0 record in the UFC. He enters this matchup on a ten-fight win streak, with every victory coming by knockout.
The Brazilian was initially set to square off against Geoff Neal at UFC 314 on April 12, but "Handz of Steel" was forced to withdraw from the fight due to an injury.
With the addition of this matchup, the UFC Kansas City lineup now includes:
- Ian Machado Garry vs. Carlos Prates: welterweight
- Anthony Smith vs. Zhang Mingyang: light heavyweight
- Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama: featherweight
- Michel Pereira vs. Abus Magomedov: middleweight
- Ikram Aliskerov vs. Andre Muniz: middleweight
- Randy Brown vs. Nicolas Dalby: welterweight
- Jimmy Flick vs. Matt Schnell: flyweight
- Evan Elder vs. Ahmad Hassanzada: lightweight
- Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana: strawweight
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Malcolm Wellmaker: bantamweight
- Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards: women's bantamweight