{"id":154397,"date":"2025-11-22T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154397\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:39:06","slug":"no-way-he-deserves-a-title-shot-pros-react-to-ian-machado-garrys-win-at-ufc-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154397\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No way he deserves a title shot\u2019: Pros react to Ian Machado Garry\u2019s win at UFC Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ian Machado Garry had his hand raised at UFC Qatar, but it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s guaranteed to be elevated to the No. 1 contender spot at 170 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After a hard-fought, three-round co-main event battle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/458000\/ufc-qatar-results-ian-machado-garry-calls-out-islam-makhachev-after-beating-belal-muhammad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garry earned a unanimous decision nod<\/a> over former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad. It was a comfortable win for Garry against a game Muhammad, but the lack of an exclamation point in the fight left some observers feeling cold as far as Garry\u2019s championship hopes go. On the heels of spectacular wins by Michael Morales and Carlos Prates at UFC 322, not to mention the ascendance of now two-division champion Islam Makhachev, Garry had to show a lot Saturday to establish himself as the no-doubt next man in line and judging by the pros reactions, he fell short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Henry Cejudo scored the fight for Garry, but added, \u201cThere\u2019s now way he deserves a title shot for that performance.\u201d Cejudo\u2019s Pound 4 Pound podcast co-host and title shot front-runner Kamaru Usman responded with a yawn emoji, as did Morales, who also aims to be Makhachev\u2019s first welterweight title defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out more social media reactions to the UFC Qatar co-main event below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Machado Garry had his hand raised at UFC Qatar, but it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s guaranteed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,385,43,40,38,41,39,548,23843],"class_list":{"0":"post-154397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}