UFC JDM vs Prates Reaction
WEIGHING IN
John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, everyone. Carlos Prattis gets it done quickly, elegantly, and man, he is such a massive, massive welterweight. |
| 0:10.3 | I would didn't, I never realized how big he was. |
| 0:14.2 | I guess because when I saw him against Ian Gary Machado and I've seen him against other other fighters, I just, it felt like he was maybe slightly bigger. |
| 0:37.8 | But when he matched up and he was face to face with JDM, I was like, holy cow, Carlos Prostas is enormous. Now look, I've always said, and I've always said that tall, long, lanky fighters, I think this is the, this is the sport for them, right? I mean, obviously you would, you'd say basketball, right, tall long lanky fighters i think this is the this is the sport for them right i mean obviously you would you'd say basketball right tall long lanky but i think honestly in the fight world |
| 0:43.2 | this is the sport for them this is the sport that is best for those style fighters look at |
| 0:49.7 | anderson silver look at john jones look at um gsp was considered tall long and lanky when he was the |
| 0:56.0 | welterweight division i mean obviously these guys are a lot bigger now uh the way that they've learned |
| 1:01.3 | how to cut weight take care of themselves full nutrition but gs p was ahead of his time uh john was ahead |
| 1:06.7 | of his time as well john jones and you've got other fighters in these divisions, man, just absolutely insane. |
| 1:13.0 | Carlos Prattis put on a performance. |
| 1:15.4 | He looked absolutely dominant. |
| 1:18.6 | He looked fast. |
| 1:19.6 | He looked clean. |
| 1:20.7 | He looked composed. |
| 1:21.6 | He looked ready for anything that comes his way. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, I will say this. |
| 1:27.0 | JDM is not the wrestler of Islam. JDM is not the wrestler of Islam. J.D.M. is not the |
| 1:30.0 | wrestler of some of the other guys in that, in that division. Let me go ahead and look this up. |
| 1:35.0 | When I'm looking at the, uh, do, do, do you can J.D.M. Russell as well as Michael Morales. |
| 1:41.4 | Probably not since I think Michael Morales is an Ecuadorian, like national |
| 1:45.9 | champ or something along those lines from what I heard. He cannot wrestle as good as Bala Muhammad. |
| 1:50.6 | Now he was able to stop some of Balaal's takedowns, but Bala didn't start wrestling until round |
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