{"id":3461,"date":"2026-05-02T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/3461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:53:06","slug":"ufc-perth-live-blog-jack-della-maddalena-vs-carlos-prates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/3461\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Perth live blog: Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the live blog for Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates, the welterweight main event for Saturday\u2019s UFC Perth card at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A former welterweight champion, Maddalena looks to rebound from his title loss to Islam Makhachev in November, which snapped his 18-fight winning streak. Prior to that setback, the Australian talent was 8-0 inside the octagon with half of those coming by way of knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prates, on the other hand, attempts to secure another victory to possibly earn a shot at the 170-pound belt. The Brazilian star is 6-1 in the promotion with a 100 percent knockout rate and cashed bonuses for every single one of his victories, including a November stoppage over ex-champion Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates live blog below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Perth hasn\u2019t been that great, especially if you woke up early (or didn\u2019t sleep at all) for the early prelims), but at least we got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/post\/ISnB-U6LSQI8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a legendary beer snake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Make no mistake about it, though, big stakes in this five-round main event. Can Prates fold another former champion? Will Maddalena get back on the horse after a dominant loss to Makhachev?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Local fighters went 8-4 so far in Perth, and we\u2019re moments away from finding out if JDM can join the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prates walks out to the cage but first stops by to greet his family octagon-side. It\u2019s the first time his mother Regina flew outside of Brazil to watch him live \u2014 and his 6-year-old daughter Skylar is also in attendance. This is enemy territory, but Corinthians fans have been very loud all week to support the Brazilian in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maddalena walks out to \u201cT.N.T\u201d of Australia\u2019s own AC\/DC and the crowd goes nuts, singing along. They stare at each other from across the cage and NEARLY COME TO BLOWS before being announced. Wow! The arena is electric. This should be a fun one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They touch gloves in the middle and Mike Beltran is your referee. Here we go!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maddalena throws a jab and Prates kicks, but both misses. Prates with a calf kick. Prates circling with his back against the octagon as Maddalena presses him. Maddalena jabs and lands one to the body. Maddalena with a nice left to the body again. Prates responds, but Maddalena keeps working his hands. Maddalena throws a head kick and Prates fires a heavy leg kick. Prates with a solid jab that connects, and he\u2019s getting more comfortable in the fight. Three minutes in and Prates is more aggressive now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the live blog for Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates, the welterweight main event for Saturday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1411,335,1412,1413],"class_list":{"0":"post-3461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-perth","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-perth","10":"tag-ufc","11":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}