{"id":72281,"date":"2025-08-16T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72281\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:29:06","slug":"ufc-fighter-wanted-to-beat-up-rival-in-front-of-donald-trump-mma-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72281\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighter wanted to beat up rival in front of Donald Trump – MMA – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Machado Garry<\/a> has sent Colby Covington<\/a> a brutal warning should they ever face each other in the octagon, telling him that he’ll ‘drag him in front of Donald Trump<\/a> and beat the mouth off of him’.<\/p>\n

Covington has had some strong words for Garry in recent years, naming him a ‘cuck’<\/a> while brandishing his wife, Layla Machado, as a ‘gold digger’.<\/p>\n

Covington has taken aim at Machado on multiple occasions, highlighting their 14-year age-gap while also stating that he’d fight Garry if she turns on the comments on her Instagram posts. She had turned her comments off for a period of time after receiving hateful messages.<\/p>\n

Since Covington’s numerous shots at Garry and his wife, the Irish sensation has challenged him to a fight on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

However, both men have claimed that each of them has turned down the chance to a fight one another, with both currently having no date set.<\/p>\n

A devoted Donald Trump<\/a> fan, Covington wants his next bout to be in front of the current president, with Garry telling him exactly what he’d do if this was to be the case.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Ariel Hewlani on the MMA Hours, Garry said: “I\u2019ll talk to him when I beat the —- out of him in the octagon.<\/p>\n

“If [Donald] Trump\u2019s in attendance, I will drag Colby in front of Trump, and I\u2019ll beat the mouth off him, and I\u2019ll say, \u2018This is what you\u2019ve created.\u2019 Boom. \u2018This is MAGA.\u2019 I\u2019m like, It\u2019s no more. Get rid of him. Get him out of the UFC”.<\/p>\n

“I will silence Colby Covington. I will hit him so hard, he never speaks again.<\/p>\n

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“And when he loses to someone like me, a young prospect, he\u2019s going to go, \u2018Alright’, maybe he goes back, he\u2019s got one girl on one shoulder, one girl on the other shoulder, he\u2019s beat, he says, \u2018Maybe I should rethink my life\u2019s choices. Maybe I should retire. That kid gave me an ass-whooping I\u2019ve never had before in my life.\u2019<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s the way I beat Colby. I don\u2019t care where it is, or where it\u2019s done, I know it\u2019s coming.”<\/p>\n

Garry has an impressive 16-1 record in MMA, while recently picking up an impressive win over Carlos Prates. Meanwile, Covington has a 17-5 record, losing his last two to Leon Edwards and Joaquin Buckley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Machado Garry has sent Colby Covington a brutal warning should they ever face each other in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,56533,2490,786,56532,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-72281","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-colby-covington","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-ian-machado-garry","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72281","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=72281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}