Unbeaten welterweight contender, Ian Garry has claimed incoming foe, Shavkat Rakhmonov is nicely conscious of his championship potential — claiming he heard from his coach how the Uzbekistan fighter admitted that Dubliner was poised for gold forward of UFC 310.
Garry, who at present holds the quantity seven rank on the welterweight restrict, returns to the Octagon this weekend at UFC 310, taking co-headlining honors over the course of 5 rounds in an officially-billed title eliminator together with his fellow unbeaten challenger, Rakhmonov.
Initially slated to return every week later within the headliner of UFC Struggle Night time Tampa, Portmarnock native, Ian Garry withdrew from a predominant occasion bout with the streaking, Joaquin Buckley — rather than a pairing with Rakhmonov, with former interim champion, Colby Covington reserving his return in a pairing with St. Louis native, Buckley as an alternative.
Ian Garry stokes flames on rivalry with former teammate, Shavkat Rakhmonov
And sharing a definite historical past with unbeaten ending phenom, Rakhmonov, Garry claimed and the previous skilled collectively at Kill Cliff FC in Deerfield Seashore, Florida during the last 18 months — with the Irish striker claiming a coach on the facility knowledgeable him how Rakhmonov admitted he’ll win welterweight gold earlier than himself.
“Me and Shavkat (Rakhmonov) trained a lot together,” Ian Garry stated throughout an episode of UFC 310: Countdown. “I think he’s a phenomenal fighter. [Kill Cliff FC coach] Henri Hooft told me Shavkat Rakhmonov and him had a conversation, and he said ‘Shavkat knows you’re going to be the champion one day.’ But he says ‘Me first and him later.’ So.”
“It’s unfortunate that one of us is going to have to lose,” he concluded. “I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that he’s not getting his hand raised.”
And shutting as a sizeable betting underdog to beat Rakhmonov, over the weekend, former undisputed middleweight champion, Michael Bisping claimed if Garry is taken down by the one hundred pc ending price challenger, he can be completed for the primary time in his combined martial arts profession.
