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Garry is confident about beating Makhachev and recently predicted a late stoppage when they square off in the main event of UFC 330 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Aug. 15. Cormier opined that this approach could spell trouble for “The Future.”
Daniel Cormier believes Ian Garry’s mindset could lead to a ‘bad night
Cormier isn’t a fan of Garry wanting to show off all his skills in every aspect of MMA before finding a late finish. The UFC Hall of Famer said on his YouTube channel:
“Sometimes, a person is misguided in their thoughts, and when they’re misguided in their thoughts, they set themselves up for a very, very bad night or a bad result. I’m not saying Ian Garry cannot beat Islam Makhachev. What I’m saying is you’ve got to take that as it comes. You can’t try to say, ‘I want to beat the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world in a certain round because I don’t want it to be a fluke.’ If you win, it does not matter how you win.”
The former two-division champion claims that it shouldn’t matter to a fighter if others consider their victory a fluke. All that matters is the result, whether it comes in the opening round or the fifth. He then encouraged Garry to let go of pre-fight predictions.
“I would encourage him to let go of the idea that you want to call your shot, and you call your shot later in the fight so that people don’t have an opinion of what happened. It doesn’t matter what happens if you beat the best fighter in the world across all weight classes, pound-for-pound. It doesn’t matter how you win. It only matters that you win. And if Ian Garry wins by a fast knockout, if Ian Garry wins by submission, or if Ian Garry wins by decision, it doesn’t matter.”
Garry is a sizable betting underdog heading into the Makhachev fight. However, the last two men’s championship bouts in the Ultimate Fighting Championship have resulted in upsets, with Sean Strickland beating Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328 and Justin Gaethje defeating Ilia Topuria at UFC Freedom 250.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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