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Read on to get the full fight card, our Garry vs Prates Odds and betting predictions for the top two matchups. UFC heads to the American heartland this week as T-Mobile Center in Kansas City will host UFC on ESPN 66, set for Saturday night, April 26.
Jamahal Hill, the former UFC Light Heavyweight champ, was supposed to square off with Khalil Rountree Jr in the headliner, but Hill had to step out due to an ongoing leg injury, and now Ian Machado Garry meets Carlos Prates in a welterweight showdown as the main event.
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The co-headliner pits Zhang Mingyang against Anthony Smith in a light heavyweight tilt.
Main Card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
- Ian Machado Garry vs Carlos Prates (Welterweight)
- Anthony Smith vs Zhang Mingyang (Light Heavyweight)
- Giga Chikadze vs David Onama (Featherweight)
- Michel Pereira vs Abusupiyan Magomedov (Middleweight)
- Randy Brown vs Nicolas Dalby (Welterweight)
- Ikram Aliskerov vs Andre Muniz (Middleweight)
Preliminary Card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
- Matt Schnell vs Jimmy Flick (Flyweight)
- Evan Elder vs Gauge Young (Lightweight)
- Chris Gutierrez vs John Castaneda (Featherweight)
- Da’Mon Blackshear vs Alateng Heili (Bantamweight)
- Malcolm Wellmaker vs Cameron Saaiman (Bantamweight)
- Jaqueline Amorim vs Polyana Viana (Women’s Strawweight)
- Timothy Cuamba vs Roberto Romero (Featherweight)
- Chelsea Chandler vs Joselyne Edwards (Women’s Bantamweight)
Garry vs Prates Odds provided by Xbet
Ian Machado Garry (15-1, 8-1 UFC, -135) vs Carlos Prates (21-6, 4-0 UFC, +114)
This bout will end up a finish win for Prates between the third and fourth rounds – at least according to Prates in a recent interview. Indeed, he was one of the promotion’s breakout performers last year, as he notched four knockouts in four UFC appearances.
He is slow to get started, and his grappling and wrestling are still areas of concern, but he also shows a rare degree of smarts that make his basic toolkit hard to stop.
When he beat Charles Radtke, for example, he had to figure out what to do with his opponent’s dangerous left hook. So Prates just grabbed Radtke’s left wrist and delivered a showstopping knee to the body. He then dismantled Jingliang Li and Neil Magny to finish 2024.
Garry is an opponent who represents a different level of talent and danger for Prates. When he came into UFC, his upright striking form and height meant that being aggressive brought punishment, but in general, he was able to follow a pre-set strategy – as we saw when he told everyone what he was going to do against Daniel Rodriguez, went ahead with his head kick, and still got the knockout.
Movernig closer to the top 10 in his division led to growing pains for Garry last year. He narrowly beat Geoff Neal and Michael Page, avoiding risks against their knockout power. His first UFC loss came against Shavkat Rakhmonov on short notice at the end of 2024. Expect Garry to try and slow action down against Prates.
However, Prates should be able to do enough damage to get the judges on his side, even if he can’t stay at range enough to deliver bombs. Prates to win via decision.
^Mingyang Zhang (18-6, 2-0 UFC, -500) vs Anthony Smith (38-21, 13-11 UFC, +380)
This is Smith’s retirement bout. He’s had a terrific run since joining the UFC in 2016, as he first became a middleweight gatekeeper and then became a light heavyweight title contender. He got his shot at Jon Jones, but his attempt at a belt fell short.
When he wins, it’s because he’s pulled off some sort of comeback, such as compensating for a deficit on the cards with a knockout, or leveraging unwise aggression into a submission. That’s what happened against Vitor Petrino in May, when he came out of nowhere to deliver a submission.
Since then, he’s lost to Roman Dolidze and Dominick Reyes, and now he wants to finish his career on a high note in front of some hometown fans.
Zhang has a fairly simple approach to the sport. He has won 11 fights in a row, all by finishes in the first round. His approach is all about power in the striking, but we haven’t seen him have to keep the pace up for more than a couple of minutes.
Zhang certainly could deliver a big bomb early and knock Smith out, but that’s not what’s happened to Smith historically. Instead, he will eat some punishment and work his way back.
If he can get through the early storm, he should be able to deliver against a one-dimensional power slugger. Smith to win via submission.
^Hunting for that final victory
— UFC (@ufc) April 24, 2025
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