{"id":362953,"date":"2025-12-21T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:54:10","slug":"jorge-masvidal-blasts-ian-machado-garry-for-calling-kamaru-usman-a-has-been-youre-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362953\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal blasts Ian Machado Garry for calling Kamaru Usman a has-been: \u2018You\u2019re nothing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jorge Masvidal lost two title bouts to Kamaru Usman in the UFC, and was finished badly in the rematch in April 2021, but still went out to defend the former UFC welterweight champion from comments made by Irish contender Ian Machado Garry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garry recently said Usman is a \u201chas-been\u201d who wasn\u2019t deserving of a shot at 170-pound champion Islam Makhachev given the fact he lost three in a row prior to a recent victory over Joaquin Buckley, while he and others young up-and-comers like Michael Morales, Shavkat Rakhmonov and Carlos Prates are be more deserving of a chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has yet to announce who will face Makhachev next in 2026, but Garry\u2019s comments didn\u2019t sit well with Masvidal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI never thought I\u2019d actually be here advocating for Usman or anything but here I am,\u201d Masvidal said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WplN0DP6OS8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Row MMA<\/a>. \u201cHim calling Usman a has-been is so crazy because you\u2019ve never even been, brother. You\u2019re nothing. You might be a contender right now and stuff, you beat Belal [Muhammad], but you had to eye poke him twice to do that, it wasn\u2019t like you stopped him. I never see nobody talking about this guy like he deserves the next shot, it\u2019s only him and his wife talking about he deserves the next title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMaybe he\u2019s pushing 40-year-old Usman, but I still see Usman beating the crap out of Ian Garry. Ian Garry\u2019s not the best welterweight out there but he was born with some gifts. He\u2019s massive, he\u2019s like a light heavyweight at welterweight. He\u2019s already been rocked by Shavkat, which I think is the most deserving at 170 pounds. I don\u2019t know when he\u2019s coming back, what his injuries are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garry won 10 of 11 bouts under the UFC banner, losing only in a short-notice decision against Rakhmonov. He has since won back-to-back decisions over Prates and ex-champion Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor [Garry] to say Usman is irrelevant like, man, the fuck have you done?\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cYou know how these guys are, they just got to talk more than anything. He\u2019s got a boring style overall. He\u2019s got good speed and he keeps the fight standing until he\u2019s sweating another striking and then he goers for takedowns. But overall his style is just not exciting, and that\u2019s why nobody\u2019s talking about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAnd that\u2019s why he has to diss the next guy that might get the title shot because Ian is just f*cking boring as f*ck for the most part. Even when he\u2019s landing combos and after he hits somebody and instead of being f*cking mean and staying on top of them, he goes for a stroll and goes f*cking dancing or walking or clinching. Bro, get in there and f*cking fight. I don\u2019t think much of Ian\u2019s ass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal lost two title bouts to Kamaru Usman in the UFC, and was finished badly in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-362953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362953","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=362953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}