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The 2025 UFC schedule rolls on with this week’s UFC Kansas City Fight card, which takes place on Saturday, April 26 from T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. A pivotal welterweight contest serves as the main event of the UFC Fight Night card. In that matchup, ranked 170-pounders Ian Machado Garry and Carlos Prates meet. Meanwhile, in the co-main event, former UFC light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Smith participates in what is likely to be his retirement fight against Zhang Mingyang. We look at the one event, UFC Kansas City, on this week’s UFC schedule.
UFC Kansas City Fight Card
UFC Kansas City Main Card
Ian Machado Garry vs. Carlos Prates
Anthony Smith vs. Zhang Mingyang
Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama
Michel Pereira vs. Abusupiyan Magomedov
Randy Brown vs. Nicolas Dalby
Ikram Aliskerov vs. André Muniz
UFC Kansas City Preliminary Card
Matt Schnell vs. Jimmy Flick
Evan Elder vs. Gauge Young
Chris Gutiérrez vs. John Castañeda
Da’Mon Blackshear vs. Alatengheili
Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cameron Saaiman
Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana
Timothy Cuamba vs. Roberto Romero
Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards
UFC Kansas City Fight Card Date:
Saturday, April 21
UFC Kansas City Fight Card Time:
Prelims: 6:00 p.m. ET
Main Card: 9:00 p.m. ET
UFC Kansas City Fight Card Location:
T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, MO
UFC Kansas City Fight Card How To Watch Or Stream:
Prelims: ESPN+
Main Card: ESPN2
UFC Kansas City: Ian Machado Garry
Garry (15-1) has an 8-1 record under the UFC banner. The 27-year-old has five decisions and three knockouts. In June 2024, Garry defeated Michael “Venom” Page at UFC 303 to earn his eighth straight win under the UFC banner. However, he tasted defeat in his next outing, dropping a decision to Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310.
Garry initially came across as a Conor McGregor clone, but the confident Irish fighter has found his own personality as a competitor who is more than willing to take on the toughest the competitors the UFC can book him against, something he did again in accepting this fight on short notice.
Garry is the No. 7 ranked UFC welterweight.
UFC Kansas City: Carlos Prates
Carlos Prates (21-6) joined the UFC in 2023 with a knockout win on a Dana White’s Contender Series card. Since then, the 31-year-old has gone 4-0 with the UFC, winning each of those fights by knockout. Prates also earned performance bonuses for each of his four knockouts. In his most recent outings, Prates scored an August 2024 stoppage of Li Jingliang before moving on to defeat Neal Magny via TKO on a UFC Fight Night Card in November.
Prates is on an 11-fight winning streak overall.
The UFC had Prates booked to face Geoff Neal at UFC 314, but that fight fell apart when Neal withdrew from the contest in late March. With that, Prates was moved to the top of this fight card when Garry agreed to face him on short notice.
Prates is the No. 13 fighter in the UFC’s official 170-pound rankings.
We will have more on the UFC schedule and the UFC Kansas City fight card as fight night approaches, including odds, updates, and fight night results and reactions.