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This collage of photos shows UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev (right) and Ian Machado Garry. \u2014 UFC\/AFP<\/p>\n
Ian Machado Garry has said that he is ready for the title fight against Islam Makhachev, but the Russian needs more time.<\/p>\n
The No. 2-ranked 170-pound contender defeated former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad in his last fight and is aiming for a title shot against Makhachev.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, Garry decided to travel to Georgia to sharpen his wrestling skills.<\/p>\n
When Islam Makhachev, who is known for his top-class wrestling and grappling skills, was asked about Garry\u2019s move to Georgia in an interview with Ushatayka, he replied that a training camp of two-three months cannot make a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I already said that. This is a mistake for fighters, to go to some training camp for two-three months before the fight in order to get ready for the fight,\u201d Makhachev said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s in reverse, this plays into such a cruel mistake because a person who goes somewhere for two-three months to prepare and starts to believe in his skills and then it doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dagestani fighter is expected to make his return to the Octagon and defend his welterweight title for the first time after Ramadan.<\/p>\n
As per Khabib Nurmagomedov, Makhachev will fight between May and July. However, it seems like \u201cThe Future\u201d does mind waiting.<\/p>\n
Recently, Ian Machado Garry has posted a post-training photo of himself taken in Gori, Georgia and in the caption, he wrote that he is ready to fight, but the pound-for-pound No. 1 is not ready yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ready\u2026 He needs more time. Imagine being the number one pound-for-pound fighter on the planet and needing MORE time,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This collage of photos shows UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev (right) and Ian Machado Garry. \u2014 UFC\/AFP Ian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,171059,56532,27140,38928,785,85],"class_list":["post-514067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-garry","tag-ian-machado-garry","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-makhachev","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514067","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=514067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}