Ian Garry is without doubt one of the welterweight division’s brightest prospects, and plenty of want to know who he’s preventing subsequent.
Don’t depend Garry amongst these questioning.
Now 2-0 as a professional and 10-0 within the UFC after successful a unanimous resolution towards Darian Weeks at UFC 273 this previous Saturday, “The Future” is poised to be a serious participant at 170 kilos for the foreseeable future. Strategic reserving may assist to make sure success, however Garry doesn’t see the necessity to play the matchmaker.
“I’m ready the place I’ve bought all of the hype,” Garry stated on The MMA Hour. “I’m the famous person child that individuals are speaking about. I simply wish to present up and placed on superb fights and knock folks out, so for me it’s only a case of letting the UFC do what they do. They are going to make a match that they wish to see occur that may excite the followers. I don’t care if it’s one other beginner that they need me to beat up or a man whose been across the division for years and so they wish to see me examined, I don’t care. I’m gonna go in there and do what I do, which is present up and win.
“I’m a competitor, I win. So whoever is throughout the cage is irrelevant. It’s about me. There’s a motive I’ve been on two UFC pay-per-view playing cards. There’s a motive I’ve been so extremely hyped. As a result of I present up and I placed on a struggle, and I do an excellent rattling job displaying up in that cage. So anybody they wish to ship my means, it’s superb, a minimum of in the event that they’re prepared to get knocked out.”
Garry, 24, signed with the UFC after capturing a vacant Cage Warriors championship in June of this previous yr and made a splash in his promotional debut with a first-round knockout of Jordan Williams at UFC 268. He needed to go the gap to defeat Weeks, however was nonetheless happy at having picked up one other victory.
“An ‘A’ as a result of I received, and that’s what I do — I win,” Garry stated when requested to grade his sophomore efficiency. “Whether or not it was the cleanest efficiency or whether or not it was a sloppy efficiency, a win’s a win, and that inevitably is on my profession once you take a look at it now, it’s 9-0. It’s 9-0. And you already know what’s higher than 9-0? 10-0. It’s coming quickly.”
Two judges scored the struggle 30-27 for Garry on Saturday, so regardless that the struggle lacked standout moments he’s viewing the expertise as a serious optimistic each resulting from changing into extra used to the ebb and circulation of struggle week and since he had his hand raised in the long run.
Garry at present trains with the star-studded Sanford MMA gymnasium in Florida, and he’s keen to construct on his first three-round UFC struggle, regardless that he feels he confirmed an array of instruments towards Weeks.
“I’m a lot happier with this efficiency [than my UFC debut] as a result of it reveals my general recreation,” Garry stated. “It reveals, look, quarter-hour I’m contemporary by the top of it. I don’t know in the event you watched it again, however in the event you watched it stay and also you see me in between Rounds 2 and three I used to be laughing and joking with my nook. It’s what I do. I had a smile, we had a joke about one another. I really like what I do and I’m blessed to do be ready the place I get to do what I do in entrance of a thousand folks and placed on a present and I’m proud of that efficiency as a result of it confirmed a lot of what I’ve.
“It confirmed my takedown protection, it confirmed my elusiveness within the cage, it confirmed my footwork, it confirmed my intelligence of OK, this man’s sensible, how do I overcome that, how do I transfer ahead and the way do I discover the gaps. I discovered gaps and I utilized what I discovered was working or it wasn’t and I saved successful. It reveals me that I’ve come to this point already in my brief time at Sanford. It reveals me how way more I’ve to go as a result of after I see a struggle like that I’m like, OK, it was an incredible efficiency, however there’s a lot extra I can do and a lot extra to be taught and it simply makes me extra excited to get again within the gymnasium.”
Assuming Garry isn’t identified with any egregious post-fight accidents, he hopes to be again in the summertime, ideally through the UFC’s Worldwide Battle Week in Las Vegas. The annual occasion is scheduled to happen from June 27-July 3, with UFC 276 being hosted at T-Cell Area on July 2.
Even the choice of preventing nearer to house on a U.Ok. card doesn’t entice Garry as a lot as the prospect to make his debut within the struggle capital of the world.
“I simply really feel prefer it provides me sufficient time to sluggish my physique down,” Garry stated. “Clearly, going right into a struggle camp, a weight camp, a struggle itself, not that I’m injured or I bought harm or something like that however simply type of give my physique time to only come down somewhat bit after which get again to the gymnasium, sit down with my coaches within the video room, watch the struggle and see what they need me to work on and the way we are able to enhance from right here.
“I really feel like I’ve greater than sufficient time to utterly change my recreation and mildew round no matter we sit down and focus on we are able to change and can profit me going ahead. I really feel like that’s the proper time to go once more. I wish to struggle in Vegas, and the truth that it’s Worldwide Battle Week makes it even a much bigger wish to do it.”
