Ian Machado Garry may very well be set for an unimaginable homecoming quickly.
The welterweight contender scored the most important win of his profession at UFC Charlotte, changing into the primary fighter to knock out Daniel Rodriguez when he put the veteran down in Spherical 1. Machado Garry improved his skilled report to 12-0 and 5-0 within the UFC. Extra necessary, he additional established himself as a star on the rise.
Although he was thrilled with the reception he acquired in Charlotte, Machado Garry agreed with the suggestion {that a} battle in his hometown of Dublin would take his fame to a different stage.
“If I’m getting Irish help in Eire, in Dublin, there’s by no means going to be anyplace else the place it’s going to be louder than once I’m at house and I really feel just like the Irish deserve the help,” Machado Garry stated on The MMA Hour. “The Irish deserve the gang, they deserve the present of the UFC coming again to Eire. We’ve achieved a lot for the game. The game is booming proper now for the time being. I’m completely smashing it. I’m going to be ranked 15 tomorrow.
“You’ve clearly obtained Conor on the comeback, every time he’s again in opposition to Chandler. And then you definately take a look at it, we’ve obtained three Cage Warriors Irish Champions. We’ve obtained Caolan Loughran, we’ve obtained Paul Hughes, we’ve obtained Rhys McKee. These boys are all on the verge of signing for the UFC now, so it’s inevitable that the UFC are going to come back again. They’re going to come back again to Eire and I’m the man who’s going to make it occur and I’m excited for it. I consider that after this battle, once I beat Neil Magny, once I smoke another person in that high 15, that I’m going to have the ability to pull them again to Europe to get that Irish base respiratory once more. To get all people hype, get that fireside burning, after which watch all these guys observe behind me to the UFC and simply set the stage alight once more.”
The UFC has held three playing cards in Dublin, most famously an occasion on July 19, 2014, that was headlined by Machado Garry’s fellow Dubliner Conor McGregor and Diego Brandao. McGregor defeated Brandao by first-round TKO, sending the Irish crowd right into a frenzy. It stays a signature second within the profession of McGregor, who went on to win two UFC titles and obtain international superstardom.
Up subsequent for McGregor, he fights Michael Chandler with a date and placement nonetheless to be decided following the airing of The Final Fighter 31, which options the fighters as opposing coaches.
Machado Garry stated he hasn’t heard any particular plans to return to Dublin (the latest occasion there came about in October 2015), however when it occurs, he’s decided to be the person on the high of the marquee.
“I advised them that I would like them again and [UFC President] Dana [White] sat and stated, ‘I do know, we’ll work on it. We’ll attempt,’” he stated. “That’s all he can say. He’s form of a little bit of a sure man, he has to say sure at that time limit, however I consider that he’s completely going to make it occur. I consider while you see the star energy that I possess, in Charlotte, while you see the efficiency that I confirmed up with and you consider that was the very best opponent I’ve ever fought in many individuals’s minds. That was in opposition to the hardest man I’ve ever fought in many individuals’s minds. Why wouldn’t we go and do this in Eire and why wouldn’t we go and do it in opposition to somebody who’s going to herald the followers? … Might you think about me vs. Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson as the principle occasion in Dublin, Eire, after which stack the cardboard with Irish and European expertise from high to backside. You wouldn’t must promote some other fighters, you simply have me and Wonderboy and it might promote it out.
“So it makes a lot sense, and I consider Dana will convey us again, and I consider he’ll make a return to Eire at one time limit, early subsequent 12 months I consider. It’s on me to maintain pushing for that. It’s for me to place my nation on my again and carry them by way of and preserve successful and present them that I would like them again. I stated to [journalist] Seán Sheehan earlier than my battle in Cage Warriors: Cork, my third skilled battle. I stated I’m going to be the man that brings the UFC again to Dublin. I’m going to be that man, I’m him. And I’m this f****** shut. I’m this shut. So it’s thrilling.”
