UFC Kansas City gets a high-profile welterweight bout on April 26 at the T-Mobile Center between #7 Ian Machado Garry and #13 Carlos Prates in the main event.
Dana White announced the bouts on Tuesday.
Garry (15-1) will see action for the first time since suffering his first professional loss at the hands of Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310. The loss snapped an 8-fight UFC win streak that Garry hoped would get him a title shot before falling in that short-notice bout.
Prates (21-6) gets a higher-ranked opponent in Garry coming off a TKO victory over the very durable Neil Magny last November. Prates holds victories over Magny, Jingliang Li, Charles Radtke, and Trevin Giles.
Garry took to Instagram following the announcement.
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“Right it’s official. You’ve got a new main event Kansas City, Missouri. Me versus Carlos Prates, April 26th. I’m excited,” he says in the video.
“Why? The UFC go ‘ah. We need somebody. Who do we need? Who do we call? You call me. Why? Cuz I’m a real fighter who wants to fight the best in the world.”
UFC Kansas City takes place on April 26 at the T-Mobile Center in Downtown Kansas City. The card, as of now, looks as follows:
Ian Garry vs. Carlos Prates
Anthony Smith vs. Mingyang Zhang
Michel Pereira vs. Abus Magomedov
Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama
Ikram Aliskerov vs. Andre Muniz
Randy Brown vs. Nicolas Dalby
Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana
Cameron Saaiman vs. Malcolm Wellmaker
Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards
Matt Schnell vs. Jimmy Flick
Ahmad Hassanzada vs. Evan Elder
