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Carlos Prates meets Michael Morales with UFC gold between them

FULL SEND MMA's first staredown clip previews an interim welterweight title matchup, with viewers already debating how long it can last.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 427,942 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (25,773).

🇧🇷🇪🇨 INTENSE First Face Off Between Carlos Prates And Michael Morales (UFC 336)🇧🇷🇪🇨 INTENSE First Face Off Between Carlos Prates And Michael Morales (UFC 336)
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Michael Morales arrives shirtless; Carlos Prates walks out in a black leather jacket and sunglasses. Within seconds, they are face-to-face, exchanging words while Dana White holds a championship belt between them.

FULL SEND MMA's Short previews their interim welterweight title matchup at UFC 336, which the channel's description places in Toronto in 2027. It has passed half a million views after an opening day roughly seventeen times the channel's usual for Shorts.

The exchange is close enough for security personnel to extend their arms between the fighters. Their words are lost beneath the crowd noise, leaving the cameras to capture the posture, the proximity and the belt. Officials eventually separate them, and Prates puts his sunglasses back on before leaving the stage.

In the comments, viewers are making early fight-of-the-year predictions and wondering whether the bout can last beyond the opening rounds. Others read a friendly connection beneath the staredown, though the clip's inaudible conversation leaves that as their interpretation.

The channel also drew unusually large audiences for Ciryl Gane and Josh Hokit's final face-off, Hokit's closing message and Joshua Van taunting Manel Kape with his flyweight belt. But amid the title talk, one smaller detail caught viewers' attention in the Prates-Morales clip: White's Tapout shirt.

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What viewers say

  • Potential Fight of the year
    @drivensub9148See it on YouTube
  • Cinema. Feels like this fight doesn't go past 2 rounds
  • Now THIS is the fight I’ve been waiting for. Match making perfection 🔥🔥
    @raulmendezgarciaSee it on YouTube
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The facts
Subscribers
653,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
4,566,986
Channel views, pace per day
1,437,511 (on a normal day: 442,579)
Video published
November 13, 2026
Video views so far
505,561 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day
362,305

The numbers

The Prates-Morales staredown drew a much larger opening audience than FULL SEND MMA's usual Short, with a similarly sharp rise in comments.

the video's first day
usual first day here
25,773
this video
427,942
subscribers
653,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
total views
990,976,400
views per day
1,437,511
typical day: 442,579
the video
views
505,561
likes
14,352
comments
920
days online
2
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
WWE NXT
572,000
WCW
568,000
Undertaker
563,000
As of November 15, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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