TheMacLife<\/a>, Chimaev claims it was Garry who initiated the physicality by jokingly punching him in the back first.<\/p>\n\u201cYou know this guy, trying to be Conor but never gonna be Conor,\u201d Chimaev said during Tsarukyan\u2019s post-event scrum.<\/p>\n
In all likelihood, that feud will stay unresolved with both fighters having their own business to take care of. Chimaev is yet to book his first middleweight title defense, and Garry is busy campaigning to emerge from the increasingly crowded welterweight title picture and be booked to face champion Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n
A move to 185 pounds could happen someday, Garry says, but not anytime soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, I\u2019m going to tell you the same story I tell everyone when I think about moving up to middleweight,\u201d Garry said. \u201cI\u2019ve trained in Kill Cliff, Fla. Everybody here knows Gregory Rodrigues. When I stand in front of that man, I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s not a good idea to move up to middleweight.\u2019 He is absolutely massive and when I look at that I\u2019m like, I\u2019m 28. Maybe when I\u2019m 34, 35, and I\u2019ve grown up and I\u2019ve got a bit bigger, maybe my metabolism starts to slow down, I start to hit that hard. I could move up now and I\u2019m absolutely going to be doing the same things I do. Smart, technical, elusive, fast, I could have success. But there\u2019s a lot of people in this welterweight division that I need to beat and dominate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to do this GSP-style. I want to go through the division, dominate the division, beat every flash in the pan, beat every next No. 1 contender in the world, and dominate this division. I\u2019m 28 years of age as of Monday this week. I have a decade of domination in this sport, I have no rush to move up to middleweight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Machado Garry and Khamzat Chimaev got physical at UFC Qatar, and according to Garry, the altercation practically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-306906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}