Overview

• Prates won by spinning back elbow at 4:59 of Round 1, becoming the first fighter to finish Neal by strikes in the UFC.
• UFC CEO Dana White said on the broadcast that Prates will receive a $50,000 bonus and a guaranteed place on the UFC Rio card.
• Prates called for Leon Edwards in Rio, with Michael “Venom” Page publicly offering to face him as matchmaking remains unsettled.
• Referee Jason Herzog stopped the fight at the horn, prompting questions from Josh Thomson while longtime official John McCarthy defended the call.
• The finish was reported as just the ninth spinning back elbow knockout in UFC history, and Lerone Murphy produced a similar KO in the next bout.