Carlos Prates says Chimaev and American fighters lack the street-tested upbringing of Brazilians

Carlos Prates argued on a podcast that Brazilian fighters carry a fundamentally different life experience from their American and Central Asian counterparts. He said personal insults that might go unchallenged elsewhere would have serious real-world consequences in Brazil, and criticized remarks Khamzat Chimaev directed at Sean Strickland about his father as deeply out of bounds. Prates also reacted strongly to trash talk aimed at Poatan, saying he would have thrown a chair himself.