{"id":383373,"date":"2025-12-31T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:21:11","slug":"ian-garry-will-smash-islam-becomes-no-1-pound-for-pound-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383373\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Garry will smash Islam, becomes No. 1 pound-for-pound on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be no excuses from anyone on the planet,\u201c Garry said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DS7i5hDiBzt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201dWhen I beat him, I have beaten the greatest pound-for-pound fighter on the planet right now. Your excuses are all finished. There is none. Don\u2019t look for them, don\u2019t pick on them. I\u2019ll be the number one pound-for-pound on the planet. I\u2019ll be the champion of the world and then we can start the aggressive defenses.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s a big dude,\u201d Garry said about Makhachev. \u201cThere\u2019s no excuse. When I beat Islam Makhachev and I win the world title, there will be no excuses from anyone, anywhere on the planet. End of, done. They all look for something. They all want that claim, \u2019Oh, you know, it was this, it was that.\u2018 No, it couldn\u2019t have been you. It couldn\u2019t have been that Ian\u2019s just better than you.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 28 year-old Garry (17-1) is coming off back-to-back victories over Carlos Prates and former champion Belal Muhammad and is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/410294\/red-hot-manel-kape-makes-waves-in-flyweight-contender-pool-following-ufc-vegas-112-rankings-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked No. 3 at 170 pounds<\/a>. \u201cThe Future\u201d will likely need one more victory at 170-pounds to cement his long-awaited welterweight title shot.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be no excuses from anyone on the planet,\u201c Garry said on Instagram. \u201dWhen I beat him,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-383373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383373","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=383373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}