Ian Machado Garry appears to be like to reside vicariously by means of his beforehand scheduled opponent subsequent month.
Garry was slated to face Joaquin Buckley in the primary occasion of UFC Tampa on Dec. 14, however after welterweight champion Belal Muhammad was pressured out of the UFC 310 fundamental occasion with an damage, Garry now steps in to face Shavkat Rakhmonov in a five-round co-main occasion on the Dec. 7 pay-per-view card in Las Vegas. In a considerably shocking transfer, the UFC booked Buckley towards former interim champ Colby Covington to cap off the promotion’s return to “The Sunshine State.”
Garry is now backing Buckley to not solely beat Covington, however knock him out.
“Joaquin Buckley: I’m behind you one hundred pc of the way in which,” Garry mentioned on Instagram. “Exit and put that man to sleep, please and thanks. Do it for me, as a result of he’s not in a position to do it towards me.”
After Garry was booked, he alleged each Covington and former champ Kamaru Usman declined matchups with him. “The Future” has been calling out Covington for effectively over a 12 months, and the undefeated Garry now believes Covington returning to face Buckley is proof “Chaos” wished nothing to do with combating him.
“This simply reveals [he’s] been ducking me for seven, eight months,” Garry mentioned. “I signed for the baddest man within the division and this man comes out of the f*cking shadows. He’s a p*ssy. He’s a bitch. And in the future, I’ll get my fingers on him.”
