He did not hold back….<\/p>\n
Ian Machado Garry failed in his attempt to become the first UFC title holder since Conor McGregor, following his unanimous decision loss to Islam Makhachev last night.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner battled it out with the Russian for the UFC Welterweight Championship at UFC 330 in Philadelphia, but ultimately his striking style was no match for the wrestler.<\/p>\n
It takes Makhachev’s record to 29 wins and one loss, and also gave him the record for most UFC wins in a row, with seventeen, breaking Anderson Silva’s 13-year record.<\/p>\n
For Garry, it takes him to 17 wins and two losses.<\/p>\n
However, UFC boss Dana White had little sympathy for the 28-year-old, and criticised his lack of killer instinct.<\/p>\n
He said: “It felt like tonight was set up for the upset, with so much on the line. There are weight classes for a reason. Ian is a talented guy. If he had even an ounce of killer instinct… in that fifth round, he had been beating him, Islam’s right side and face was beat up.<\/p>\n
“You don’t come out and hug and shake hands, it drives me f***ing crazy when there is so much at stake. There is so much mental gamesmanship in this game, you come out in that fifth round with a flying knee, something crazy, you try and finish the fight.<\/p>\n
“I think this is one of those fights that Ian will go back and watch and be like, ‘f***, I wish I could do that over again’. If he came out and tried to destroy and win that last round, I think it’s a totally different fight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He did not hold back…. Ian Machado Garry failed in his attempt to become the first UFC title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-857337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857337","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=857337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}