Prates and De Ridder Supplied the Finishes at UFC Vegas 100
Carlos Prates knocked out Neil Magny in the UFC Vegas 100 main event on November 9, 2024. The card at UFC APEX also featured a successful promotional debut for Reinier de Ridder, who submitted Gerald Meerschaert in the co-main event.
Prates stopped the early wrestling attempts
Magny tested Prates’s takedown defense near the start, but the Brazilian remained standing and began pressing forward. He backed Magny toward the fence and hurt him with a short right hand.
A left hand to the temple ended the contest at 4:50 of the first round. The finish completed a four-fight, four-stoppage opening year for Prates inside the UFC.
De Ridder needed the third round
De Ridder dropped Meerschaert with a left hook near the end of round one. Their second round featured repeated grappling exchanges and scrambles as both men sought to impose their submission skills.
The Dutch newcomer took Meerschaert down early in the third and secured an arm-triangle choke at 1:44. The former two-division ONE champion left his UFC debut with an eighteenth professional victory.
The main card offered different routes to victory
Mansur Abdul-Malik stopped Duško Todorović with strikes at 2:44 of the first round. Gillian Robertson defeated Luana Pinheiro by unanimous decision, and Gaston Bolaños also won a unanimous decision against Cortavious Romious.
Those results preceded the two featured finishes. The evening marked the hundredth UFC Fight Night at APEX, with Prates’s knockout closing an event that combined new arrivals, established veterans and several decisive stoppages.
Sources
- UFC: main and co-main sequences, full card results and APEX milestone
- UFC: dated November 9 event and official card
