Video: Carlos Prates and Michael Morales have an intense first confrontation at the UFC 335 and UFC 336 press conference

Carlos Prates and Michael Morales are already itching to fight.

On January 30, Prates and Morales face off for the interim welterweight title in the co-main event of UFC 336 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Both men want their chance against undisputed champion Islam Makhachev, but they’re going to have to fight for it, and based on their first matchup Friday at the UFC 335 and UFC 336 press conference in New York, they can’t wait to do it.

With flyweight champion Joshua Van missing the event, challenger Manel Kape had no one to rely on to tout his fight in the main event, so the promotion was largely left to Prates and Morales. And while neither man was particularly disrespectful to the other, there was a sense of competition between them, which showed during their very intense confrontation, with Dana White having to separate the two.

At a joint press conference, Charles Oliveira and Diego Lopes – the main eventer of the BMF title fight for UFC 335 – and Alex Pereira and Sergei Pavlovich – the five-round heavyweight co-main eventer – were also in attendance, but the two pairs of fighters stood in stark contrast to Prates and Morales. Oliveira and Lopes embraced before the faceoff, while “Poatan” and Pavlovich had a cordial and uneventful faceoff.

UFC 335 takes place on December 12 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.