Ian Machado Garry hoped to have the gold UFC Welterweight Gold on the line.
Garry has been fought for the last time in the UFC 309 octagon for the last time. In a relatively short time, the Irish star intensified to face her unbeaten compatriot Shavkat Rakhmonov. He underwent his first loss of career in the fight, but his stock increased even in defeat because of his high performance in the fight.
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Speaking on Monday “The Ariel Helwani Show” by Non-Couronne ,, “ Garry recalled how it was upset that Jack Della Maddalena obtained the next shot after Rakhmonov could not compete. Before Della Maddalena challenged the champion of 170 pounds Belal Muhammad to the UFC 315 next month, Garry will rather face the Brazilian who is booming Carlos Prates in the main bouting event of the UFC Kansas City on April 26.
“I was in steam red,” said Garry. “I was in an Uber on the way back of the boxing downfall training when my agent called me and filled me. I hung the phone. I said to myself:” Give me a moment. I remind you. “I was bubbling because I said to myself:” Okay, that's how it is. “Yeah, I just had to face that.”
The image of the Welter weight title has seen a rotary casting arriving and coming in recent times. Garry's meeting with Rakhmonov, for example, only appeared after the Muhammad champion underwent an unpleasant bone infection in his toe which forced his withdrawal. Garry entered his place for the five -round replacement fight which helped close the UFC calendar in 2024, and it was widely believed that the winner would then fight for the title against Muhammad. However, Rakhmonov found himself incapable of doing the date and Della Maddalena was rather transferred to an unexpected title for the UFC 315.
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In the end, everything on the situation around the UFC 315 rubs Garry in the wrong direction. Whether or not it is loss, he does not see this as an appropriate reason to repel it.
“I think the word” withdrawn “is the word that bothers me,” said Garry about Rakhmonov. “I do not believe that Shavkat has retired because of the pure choice not to want to fight for a title, but from what I hear, it is more an injury that I absolutely believe that he suffered in the fight with me because of the quantity of kicks in the heel that I put in the knee.
“We are in a fight for the world title, defeating us for the competition point n ° 1, so the guy who wins the fight, rightly – I always believe that he has won the fight to date – he gets the blow. But if he is not available, it is logical to go to me. Not a guy who was longer and longer, and a before injury, and had to lower this line of more healing.
“The words I heard were:” We cannot go with a title from a loss “and I am like, yes, but you can, and you have done several times in the past,” concluded Garry. “So I just said,” What do you know? I have a lot to do, and I am excited for that. “April 26, we will show the world what is happening.”
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Since Garry's first loss of career, the new contenders have emerged with solid cases for a Welter weight title shot, including the next Irish opponent, Prates. Sean Brady also struck, even jumping Rakhmonov in the official UFC ranking.
Brady took the place of competitor n ° 1 with his Dominant submission of the fourth round of former champion Leon Edwards at UFC London in March. Before the match, Brady was open to a Garry confrontation. The same cannot be said afterwards, because Brady now considers division through lenses tinged with gold.
From the siege of Garry, he thinks it is a wise decision on the part of Philadelphia.
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“Sean Brady likes to mention my name. I swear I'm in the head of this man,” said Garry. “We have the same agent, and I swear to God, every time the name of Sean is mentioned, he always calls, always, always my name. He just has this strange obsession. I just think that he is jealous that I am just beautiful and beautiful. He looks like something” Lord of the Rings “.
“I hit his mouth. He would try to pull a ugly withdrawal, and I would put one knee in his nose, and he could no longer breathe.
The Welters weight division goes through this last batch of new clashes, and Garry vs Prates is the next on the file. The victorious fighter of this pairing could be, at most, a victory far from a title shot, and Garry said that he had accepted the short -term headliner for the UFC Kansas City without even informed of the opponent. Nothing has changed, he said, once the name Prates was revealed to him during a later call.
Prates has been in tears since his arrival at the UFC, and Garry liked to look at him as a spectator. There is no bad blood between the two. But as much respect that Garry has done for his next opponent, he is fully confident Prates is lower.
Ian Machado Garry is ready to come back with revenge after his first career defeat. (Photo by Steve Marcus / Getty Images)
(Steve Marcus via Getty Images)
“I think he did very well,” said Garry. “There is a reason why he is on a sequence of 10 eighth end of combat, a fair game with him, it's great. But I too – I think that his team (fighting the Nerds) is phenomenal. I love watching his team. I think I'm great. They are very successful right now. You, guy.
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“The most elite Welters weights on the planet. So, if this man thinks he is as good as him, and when he passes through this octagon on April 26 against me, it is his do-or time-I promise you, you have seen it from me every time, when I am intervening in this octagon, I look phenomenal. And I promise you in my heart I close my eyes, I'll finish.
Many title paths for future Welters depending on Rakhmonov's status. Theoretically, “the nomad” should always be at the top of the hierarchical prescription after having recovered from an injury. But Garry sees his next performance as the decision maker who will make him the undeniable option instead.
“When I throw Prates and I just got out of this really close fight with Shavkat, and Shavkat is injured because of that, who do you want Belal to fight then?” Said Garry. “Sean Brady? Or do you want to see (Muhammad) fight Ian Machado Garry? What is the biggest fight?
“If you are the UFC and you decide on a payment to vision, and the main event is (these options) … It's obvious. It's me. I get attention. I get people, I love myself or I hate myself. I am the best in the world, and it's my job to show it.”
