{"id":758397,"date":"2026-06-25T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758397\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:21:10","slug":"ian-garry-signs-with-eddie-hearn-before-ufc-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758397\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Garry Signs With Eddie Hearn Before UFC 330"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 1-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight contender Ian Garry finally gets his shot at UFC gold<\/a> when he takes on reigning 170-pound kingpin Islam Makhachev in the main event of UFC 330<\/a>, which goes down Sat., Aug. 15, 2026, inside Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

And with a little more than 50 days until the biggest fight of his career, Garry has added a very interesting name to his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations Matchroom Talent Agency, you\u2019ve signed the future,\u201d Garry wrote on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m excited to announce Team Future just got bigger. Alongside Vayner Sports, I\u2019ll be joining The Matchroom Talent Agency \u2014 who will now work across my commercial interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is one key distinction between Garry and Aspinall.<\/p>\n

Unlike Aspinall, who has Hearn representing him both in and out of the cage<\/a> \u2014 including contracts, fights and sponsors \u2014 Garry will only be using Matchroom Talent Agency for marketing and commercial opportunities. Garry\u2019s current management team, Vayner Sports, will continue handling UFC-related business, including contracts and fight negotiations.<\/p>\n

Still, the timing is interesting.<\/p>\n

UFC CEO Dana White and Hearn have been sending shots over boxing<\/a> for a while now \u2014 and recently they have been getting business-personal with White taking shots at Hearn\u2019s boxing business and Hearn firing right back at UFC\u2019s pay structure. Hearn even claimed he \u201cnearly fell off the f\u2014king chair<\/a>\u201d when he saw Aspinall\u2019s current pay.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, Garry signing with Hearn right before his first UFC title fight is at least worth an eyebrow raise.<\/p>\n

The big question is whether the move affects Garry\u2019s standing with the promotion, especially with White and Hearn currently at each other\u2019s throats. On paper, it should not matter because Hearn is only working on Garry\u2019s commercial interests, not his UFC deal.<\/p>\n

But this is the fight game, and weird things happen all the time.<\/p>\n

For now, Garry remains locked in for the biggest opportunity of his career against the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world.<\/p>\n

He just added one of White\u2019s loudest rivals to the team before getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight contender Ian Garry finally gets his shot at UFC gold when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85,1396,355513],"class_list":["post-758397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758397","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=758397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}