{"id":821540,"date":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:01:09","slug":"ufc-330-ian-machado-garry-puts-islam-makhachev-on-another-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821540\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 330: Ian Machado Garry puts Islam Makhachev on another level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a data-autotag=\"f3cb0c9e-a2d3-43e3-a11f-d6525a325046\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/ian-machado-garry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Ian Machado Garry<\/a> sees himself as the biggest underdog ever as a title challenger \u2013 even though the odds suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Machado Garry (17-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) challenges welterweight champion\u00a0<a data-autotag=\"3a8fae83-21ca-40ef-bc2e-df37b8a7def3\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/islam-makhachev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Islam Makhachev<\/a>\u00a0(28-1 MMA, 17-1 UFC) in the UFC 330 main event on Aug. 15 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\"\u2691f:b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Paramount+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to FanDuel, Makhachev is a -390 favorite over Machado Garry, who&#8217;s a +280 underdog. There have been far bigger underdogs as title challengers, but with Makhachev being a former dual-champion and looking to break the UFC record for longest active win streak, Machado Garry says he faces an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;This is the fight I&#8217;ve been begging for,&#8221; Machado Garry said on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DbK6iGlo7V-\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8220;This is the fight I&#8217;ve deserved, I&#8217;ve earned against the toughest task. There is no tougher challenge. You cannot name me a fighter right now in recent history who has tried to come up and competed against this level of champion: a two-weight world champion on a record-setting unbeaten streak in the UFC, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the planet. It&#8217;s the toughest challenge for a challenger to become the champion ever, and I thrive off that excitement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Machado Garry earned his title opportunity by scoring back-to-back wins over top contender Carlos Prates and former champion <a data-autotag=\"dcff0aca-b9c1-49a6-9808-65f40aa147a2\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/belal-muhammad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Belal Muhammad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784923269_429_90835278007-h-mop-u-ooas-a-av-lsd.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET Ian Machado Garry sees himself as the biggest underdog ever as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,315656,85,203779,203780,350116,387586,203220,208356,203781,202563,203139,205671,387585,202561],"class_list":["post-821540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagbelal-muhammad","tag-tagian-machado-garry","tag-taginstagram","tag-tagislam-makhachev","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagufc","tag-tagufc-330","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821540","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=821540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}