Ian Gary faces Carlos Prates No. UFC Kansas City. Photo: Reproduction/UFC
Ian Machado Garry was defeated only once in his professional life. It was precisely in last time who performed for the UFC, when he faced Shavkat Rakhmonov in the co-main event of UFC 310, in Las Vegas. With the bitter taste of a setback for the first time in his mouth, the Irishman has not given up hope. He wants the welterweight title (up to 77kg).
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But first, Garry needs to get through Carlos Prates and confirm his 16th career victory. 'The Future' had different expectations. The athlete expected to be in the UFC 316 in the fight for the belt against Belal Muhammad |, even though he was defeated by Rakhmonov. The Kazakh will not be able to play the duel as he was injured and the substitute chosen by the company was the fifth-placed player: Jack Della Maddalena.
“I think the word ‘withdrawal’ is what bothers me, because I don’t believe Shavkat withdrew because he didn’t want to fight for a title. From what I’ve heard, it’s more of an injury, an injury that I firmly believe he suffered in the fight with me due to the amount of heel kicks I threw at his knee,” Machado Garry said in interview in 'The Ariel Helwani Show'.
“We were fighting for the No. 1 contender spot, so the guy who wins the fight — and rightly so, I still believe he did to this day — gets the shot. But if he’s not available, it makes sense to go to me, not a guy who’s been out for a year,” Garry complained.
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