Ian Garry is having fun with his time in Sao Paulo after securing his seventh straight victory below the UFC banner and 14th general in February.
The Future’ as soon as once more lived as much as his moniker, scoring a break up choice victory over welterweight staple Geoff Neal at UFC 298. Consequently, Garry slid into the No. 7 spot within the 170-pound rankings — three spots behind his subsequent goal, Colby Covington.
Talking with MMA Preventing’s Guilherme Cruz, Garry made it clear {that a} conflict with ‘Chaos’ is on the agenda for UFC 303 when the promotion returns to Las Vegas on June 29.
“Look, if Colby needs to combat in his again backyard tomorrow, I’ll fly to Miami and combat him in his again backyard,” Garry mentioned. “I don’t care when it’s. I simply need him because the opponent. I would like him to be a person and step into the Octagon and face his fears. Face the person who he’s talked lots of sh*t about, and watch what occurs while you get in there. God will probably be good. He’ll give me Colby Covington at any time when, wherever I would like him, and he’ll say, ‘Ian, have enjoyable.’”
Covington final competed in December, arising brief in opposition to reigning welterweight champion Leon Edwards at UFC 296. Since then, the three-time title challenger has been relentlessly focusing on Ian Garry and his spouse, Layla Machado Garry, in a collection of NSFW movies and social media posts.
“I need to combat him due to the next he has, the respect on his title as one of many higher fighters on this division and has been for a very long time,” Garry mentioned. “I need to combat him due to all of the sh*t that he has talked about me and my household, and I’m going to guarantee that he regrets each phrase he’s mentioned.
“However I additionally know that even when it was the perfect Colby Covington we ever seen, he would by no means stand an opportunity in opposition to me. Regardless of how good Colby Covington ever may very well be or can be, he would by no means have the ability to beat me. I’m too elite. I’m too quick. I’m too technically good. He simply doesn’t stand an opportunity. I don’t assume the man deserves any respect on the earth, to be trustworthy with you. The sh*t he talks … I’ll step into that Octagon, and I’ll retire him. That’s my objective. My complete objective to once I combat Colby Covington is that he by no means places on MMA gloves ever once more.”
Ian Garry Decided to retire Colby Covington in Potential Octagon conflict
Now coaching at Chute Boxe in São Paulo, Ian Garry would love the prospect to combat within the Land of the Holy Cross, however he merely can’t see Colby Covington accepting the invite, significantly after ‘Chaos’ made an enemy of all the nation throughout his conflict with Demian Maia in 2017.
“I don’t assume Colby Covington needs to return again to Rio after all of the sh*t he mentioned final time he was in Brazil versus Demian [Maia],” mentioned Garry, referring to when Covington defeated Maia in Brazil after which slammed the nation throughout his post-fight speech. “I feel he’ll keep away. I feel he’d find yourself useless.
“That’s the reality, I feel he’d find yourself useless. I feel there’s no means that occurs, as a result of Colby is an excessive amount of of a b*tch. However I’ll combat in Brazil someday, and I will probably be so blissful to placed on the yellow shorts and be the primary occasion in Brazil, and I’ll carry the Irish flag on one shoulder and the Brazilian flag on the opposite.”
With Garry and Covington buying and selling barbs since late final 12 months, all the things is seemingly teed up for the UFC to benefit from the extreme state of affairs and e book the welterweight grudge match for later this 12 months. Whether or not or not that really occurs stays to be seen. But when given the chance, ‘The Future’ has each intention of retiring Colby Covington emphatically.
“You don’t should be right here,” Garry mentioned. “You don’t should be on the high of the division anymore. I’m going to retire you. All of Brazil goes to have a smile on their face once I knock you unconscious and go away you in a puddle of your personal blood, face down on the canvas. Colby, you’re achieved. Fala tchau. [Say bye.]”
