Carlos Prates says Brazilian street culture demands respect words can't in the West

Carlos Prates argued that fighters from Brazil carry a fundamentally different life experience than their American or Caucasian counterparts, one shaped by street culture where disrespecting someone's mother or wife can have fatal consequences. He pointed to Khamzat Chimaev's trash talk toward Sean Strickland about his abusive father as an example of lines that should never be crossed. Prates also cited Colby Covington's remark about Ian Garry's wife and a fighter's treatment of Poatan as behavior he found deeply offensive, saying he would have thrown a chair himself.