LAS VEGAS – It’s optimistic for positive, but it surely’s laborious to fault Ian Machado Garry for his ambition.
After an in depth choice win over current UFC transplant and former Bellator standout Michael Web page (22-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) to open the UFC 303 foremost card Saturday at T-Cell Enviornment, Garry (15-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) is off to a powerful 8-0 begin to his UFC profession.
That has the welterweight already serious about the prospect to be one of the best in historical past, not to mention win a UFC title. And the latter aim, he plans to place himself in place to be prepared for a accident.
“I’m on my street to future to be one of many biggest of all time,” Garry mentioned at his UFC 303 post-fight information convention. “I’m going to do this by any means vital, and I don’t care the way it will get completed. In 10 years’ time, my identify goes to be in that GOAT dialog. Who’s the best of all time? You’re going to say Jon Jones, (Georges St-Pierre), Anderson Silva Ian Machado Garry.
“I’m going to have my identify in that dialog as a result of it’s opinion primarily based. For those who’re Brazilian, you’ll say Anderson Silva. For those who’re American, you would possibly say Jon Jones. We may all sit right here and have all of our opinions. So long as my identify is in that dialog, I’ve had a profitable profession.”
However that’s in 10 years. Wanting a lot sooner down the street, the welterweight title is on the road in England in three weeks when British champion Leon Edwards defends towards Belal Muhammad. And whereas there’s nothing to say that battle is at risk of falling aside, stranger issues at all times have occurred in MMA.
With an eight-fight profitable streak, solely former champ Kamaru Usman has gotten out to a sooner UFC welterweight begin than Garry. That’s why he mentioned he’ll plan to be in Manchester not solely to look at the battle, however in case a kind of loopy issues occurs. And perhaps then what needs to be subsequent for him will current itself a lot faster than anticipated.
“We’ve obtained Manchester in three weeks. I’ll be there. I’ve already advised the UFC previous to that I will probably be keen to face in,” Garry mentioned. “I do know there’s nobody else above me able to go. I do know there’s not as a result of there was nobody else above me to f*cking signal the battle with me as a result of I had so many conversations with Hunter (Campbell) and the blokes on the UFC.
“There’s nobody else above me besides Colby (Covington), and he mentioned that he was working. So nobody else is offered. I will probably be there in Manchester, I’ll stand on that scale, and if the chance arises, I’ll go on the market and get my hand raised.”
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