Islam Makhachev vs. Carlos Prates Signed for Toronto in January? Ariel Helwani Breakdown

Any truth to Islam versus Prochazka in Toronto? Thanks, man. Yes, I mean I'm not going to take credit for this. Yesterday I said January 30th, not January 16th. I said, you know, welterweight title fight. Um the Toronto thing was first reported by I have it here somewhere. One second. Wait for it. Wait for it.

Oh. Uh A bottle con menedero. Uh he reported this and yes, I've heard the same. And I've heard that Morales versus Shavkat has been discussed or maybe it'll just be Morales as the the backup, but it's all very fluid. But yes, January 30th in Toronto has been uh discussed and that's a very uh you know,

cool time to be in Toronto, but you know, uh they've done it in January there before, also December. And I think this is great for multiple reasons. Uh Prochazka fought in May, great. Islam deserves a lot of credit coming back after a fight in August, a very quick turnaround for him, but a

fight before the uh the Ramadan holiday. Uh sometimes they don't get it in in time. And then we have to wait until afterwards and it's almost like a year between fights. So, tremendous fight, uh the right fight the the right guy and and I would love Look, Morales versus Shavkat would be a great fight. I'm just

saying if I'm managing Shavkat, I'm not putting him in that fight off the jump. Two plus years at that point away, I'm just not doing it. I'm not doing it. It's It doesn't make sense. Look, it makes sense from a UFC perspective, but to jump into the deep end against an absolute killer like

Morales. Um who I'm not saying Shavkat can't beat him, but he's been a little more active. Amazingly, not as active as you would think because his last fight was in November of last year. It's just a tough ask. I would rather he get his feet wet. I think we talked last year about like last week about like a