{"id":859989,"date":"2026-08-16T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:00:09","slug":"ian-garry-would-have-won-if-he-ate-a-steak-pros-react-to-islam-makhachev-eking-out-title-fight-win-at-ufc-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859989\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ian Garry would have won if he ate a steak\u2019: Pros react to Islam Makhachev eking out title fight win at UFC 330"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Islam Makhachev is still welterweight champion, but it wasn\u2019t an easy night at the office for him as he was put to the test by a game Ian Machado Garry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He also joins Henry Cejudo, Daniel Cormier, Jon Jones, and Amanda Nunes as the only fighter to successfully defend UFC championships in two divisions after previously reigning as lightweight king.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While it was a disappointing night for Garry, he can hold his head high knowing he made Makhachev work for his latest title defense, and MMA personality Brendan Schaub even suggested he could have made a tactical tweak to put his performance over the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIan Garry would have won if he ate a steak,\u201d Schaub wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">See more pros reactions to the UFC 330 main event below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev is still welterweight champion, but it wasn\u2019t an easy night at the office for him as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,701,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-859989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859989","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=859989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}