By The Numbers: Neil Magny vs. Carlos Prates
While tread on the tires may be wearing thin, Neil Magny still plays a prominent role in the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight division.
The Elevation Fight Team mainstay will put the surging Carlos Prates to the test in the UFC Vegas 100 headliner this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Magny has alternated wins and losses in each of his past seven outings. “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 16 semifinalist last saw action on Aug. 24, when he succumbed to punches from the unbeaten Michael Morales in the first round of their UFC on ESPN 62 encounter. Prates, meanwhile, enters the cage on the strength of a career-best 10-fight winning streak. The Vale Top Team and Fighting Nerds rep last competed at UFC 305, where he put away Jinliang Li with punches in the second round of their Aug. 17 confrontation.
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37: Years of age for Magny, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 3, 1987.
4: Magny victories by submission, accounting for
14% of his career total (29). His methods of choice: one straight
armbar, one triangle choke, one rear-naked choke and one brabo
choke. Magny holds eight other victories by knockout or technical
knockout (27%) and 17 more by decision (59%).
107: Rounds started by Magny as a professional mixed martial artist. He has involved the judges on 20 different occasions and carries a 17-3 record in those bouts.
59: Takedowns completed by Magny as a UFC welterweight, tying him with Kamaru Usman for fourth on the promotion’s all-time list at 170 pounds. Only Georges St. Pierre (87), Colby Covington (69) and Johny Hendricks (61) have executed more.
.746: Cumulative winning percentage between the 12 men—Morales, Ian Garry, Gilbert Burns, Shavkat Rakhmonov, Michael Chiesa, Santiago Ponzinibbio, Rafael dos Anjos, Lorenz Larkin, Demian Maia, Seth Baczynski, Sergio Moraes and Andrew Trace—who have defeated Magny. They boast a combined record of 247-84-1.
31: Years of age for Prates, who was born on Aug. 17, 1993 in Taubate, Brazil.
15: Prates wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 75% of his career total (20). His list of UFC victims: Li, Charlie Radtke and Trevin Giles. Prates owns three other wins by submission (15%) and two more by decision (10%).
28: Seconds needed for Prates to punch out Tuluosibake Kuerbanjiang at a Wu Lin Feng show on Dec. 14, 2018. Nearly six years later, it remains his fastest finish to date.
150,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses pocketed by Prates across his three appearances in the UFC. He has been awarded “Performance of the Night” in all three of them.
69: Combined victories between the six men—Gadzhimurad Abdullaev, Mikhail Romanchuk, Ary Santos, Claudiere Freitas, Diogo Cavalcanti and Rafael Nunes—who have beaten Prates. They sport a .639 cumulative winning percentage at 69-39.
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