Before he became globe-trotting UFC contender, the man now known as Ian Machado Garry was simply Ian Garry from Portmarnock, Ireland. And some of the people who knew him well from those days are taking issues with the things Machado Garry has been saying in recent interviews leading up to his welterweight title fight against Islam Makhachev at UFC 330.<\/p>\n
During an hour plus interview on the High Performance podcast, Garry was extremely critical of his mother<\/a> for not supporting his decision to become an MMA fighter. He also said his parents would hit him with a spoon growing up, which is why he\u2019s such a staunch advocate against corporal punishment.<\/a><\/p>\n Under the video, a user by the name of SeanGarry6081 put up a comment claiming to be Ian Garry\u2019s brother. The account, which has existed for 12 years and does match Ian\u2019s brother\u2019s name, accused Ian of turning his back on his family over recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cIan, you\u2019re not a victim. You act like we were beaten as kids,\u201d the SeanGarry6081 account posted. \u201cWe grew up in a middle-class house and had everything we wanted. You\u2019re the type of guy to take money off his parents and never pay them back. I think the word is entitled. We had everything a child could need.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh no, you got paid to go to college and your mother was stressed. You got flown all over the world with boxing, yet you talk about them not supporting you? Dad personally got involved in your boxing the whole time, even when he was sick and in chronic pain. Do me a favour and explain that one, Ian.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe attended every one of your fights, and we always believed you could do it,\u201d the comment continued. \u201cBut Layla, who met you when you were only a few fights away from the UFC, is suddenly the one who had faith? No way really you were already there \u2026 Missing your grandad\u2019s funeral \u2014 was that a real man thing to do? Not even a text, lad. I\u2019m missing something here. \u2018World run by Layla\u2019 more like.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note that at this point we haven\u2019t been able to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that this account is actually Ian\u2019s brother Sean Garry, and this could be an elaborate fake perpetrated by one of Garry\u2019s many online haters.<\/a> With the decade old account used to post the comments, it would be an impressive hoax. But those that don\u2019t like Garry and his wife really don\u2019t like them.<\/a><\/p>\n Does that include Ian\u2019s brother? We\u2019ll keep you updated as we dig up more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before he became globe-trotting UFC contender, the man now known as Ian Machado Garry was simply Ian Garry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-820874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820874","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=820874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}