This week, on August seventeenth, MMA followers are in for the exiting UFC 305 at RAC Enviornment in Perth, Western Australia. The combat that’s scheduled to open up the PPV major card is Li Jingliang vs Carlos Prates. This striker’s conflict is actually a gift for everybody who enjoys the artwork of two folks locked in a cage beating the smack out of one another.
Li Jingliang is a 36-year-old UFC veteran with 17 promotional fights. ‘The Leech’ is 19-8 in his skilled MMA profession, with 10 knockouts and 4 submissions. Apparently sufficient, Li has by no means been knocked out himself, so by Conor McGregor’s logic, he could be 10-0 at this level. Talking of the actual world, Li’s final efficiency resulted in a break up determination loss to Daniel Rodriguez approach again at UFC 279. Everybody not flashed by neuralyzer remembers the storm of controversy this determination created again in Fall 2022. Many followers and impartial journalists scored the combat for Li Jingliang and had been very confused as to why the aggressive combat didn’t go his approach on paper.Â
Carlos Prates is a 30-year-old up-and-coming welterweight contender who solely had two UFC fights up to now – each are KO wins. The Brazilian is 19-6 as an MMA professional. Prates represents a now powerhouse workforce within the MMA world, Preventing Nerds. Carlos is what you name a knockout artist, as 14 out of his 19 profession wins had been secured by him by way of KO. With Li Jingliang having by no means been put out and Prates driving an eight-fight knockout streak, we’ve an ‘immovable object versus unstoppable pressure’ state of affairs on our arms.
Though Li is an explosive KO artist himself, Prates is simply that new-generation striker who depends extra so on his timing and method than on pure athletic potential. All of us noticed that from the Brazilian when he snapped Charles Radtke’s win streak with an impressive knee to the physique in his final efficiency. Can’t additionally assist however discover the calmness and confidence within the cage, which have develop into a little bit of a pattern not too long ago amongst prospects like Payton Talbot, Kyler Phillips, and Carlos Prates included. For my part, Li won’t come again the identical after nearly two years out of the cage, as Colby Covington proved to me in his UFC 296 outing towards Leon Edwards that so-called ‘ring rust’ is an actual factor. I believe, Prates will be capable of management the gap together with his kicks and dominate his opponent on a technical degree.
The Brazilian had some issues with being a little bit of a sluggish starter, however his precision very not often fails him later within the combat. I don’t count on the expertise to be an enormous issue on this matchup both, as a result of the fighters have nearly the identical variety of professional combined martial arts bouts, with the one distinction being that ‘The Leech’ is competing within the UFC for an extended time. Li Jingliang would possibly be capable of edge one of many first rounds together with his explosive placing model, however my prediction for this combat is Carlos Prates by way of third spherical TKO.
Uncover extra from FightBook MMA
Subscribe to get the most recent posts despatched to your electronic mail.