{"id":441337,"date":"2026-01-29T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:14:11","slug":"ufc-higher-ups-admit-ian-garry-too-boring-to-headline-fight-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441337\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC higher ups admit Ian Garry too \u2018boring\u2019 to headline fight cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s just one problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Future\u201d is too \u201cboring\u201d to headline UFC events, which could prevent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/417947\/ufc-releases-first-official-rankings-update-paramount-era-big-moves-justin-gaethje-jean-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 3-ranked<\/a> welterweight from getting the next crack at the 170-pound crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s according to Makhachev\u2019s manager, Ali Abdelaziz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI asked one guy very high up in the UFC,\u201d Abdelaziz told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/28\/ufc-islam-makhachev-manager-ian-machado-garry-next-title-defense\/88396269007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say who, but I had to ask him if he thinks Ian Garry, coming from nine out of 10 fights by decision, is he an exciting fighter? He\u2019s like, \u2018No, he\u2019s boring.\u2018 He\u2019s not the guy people think he is. He was not good enough to be the main event in Qatar. This is my side of the story. I\u2019m sure UFC have a different side, and we will meet up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI have no problem with him,\u201d Abdelaziz insisted. \u201cHe just lost to Shavkat (Rakhmonov) and he was almost finished by (Carlos) Prates. It\u2019s not like a guy who\u2019s going to sell out an arena or something like that. If he\u2019s going to sell out the arena, why don\u2019t you make him and Belal (Muhammad) the main event in Qatar? You made Arman (Tsarukyan) and Dan Hooker. Neither of these guys are former champions. The math doesn\u2019t add up for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s just one problem. \u201cThe Future\u201d is too \u201cboring\u201d to headline UFC events, which could prevent the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-441337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}