Former UFC champion Leon Edwards hit again at Ian Machado Garry over talks of a possible future combat between former teammates.
Prime UFC welterweight contenders Leon Edwards and Ian Machado Garry had been teammates earlier of their careers, earlier than Garry’s nasty break up from the fitness center resulted within the deterioration of their relationship. Whereas Edwards and Garry share totally different sides to what occurred, tensions stay thick between the 2 star fighters.
Edwards will face Carlos Prates this weekend at UFC 322 as he seems to be to get again into the welterweight title combine. In the meantime, Garry will face Edwards’s former foe, Belal Muhammad, within the UFC Qatar co-headliner per week later.
If Garry and Edwards win their upcoming fights, a matchup between them may very well be the combat to make. However Edwards doesn’t imagine Garry deserves to be within the place he’s in in relation to the title dialogue.
Leon Edwards/Ian Machado Garry feud continues forward of potential future conflict
Throughout a latest interview on The Ariel Helwani Present, Edwards geared toward his former coaching accomplice, Garry, when requested a couple of potential combat coming to fruition.
“Ian’s greatest achievement proper now, within the sport, is shedding to Shavkat,” Edwards mentioned.
“That’s information. That’s his biggest achievement, that he can brag he didn’t get completed and misplaced to Shavkat.
“That [fight] doesn’t for me, and my plans…if it comes it comes, if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”
Fortunately for Edwards, Garry can also be reluctant to e book a combat between them after spreading alleged lies about his break up from his former fitness center. Garry overtly cheered for Prates to ‘spark Edwards unconscious’ of their upcoming showdown.
Relying on the results of the Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev combat at UFC 322, Garry and Edwards might get a shot on the winner. Particularly Garry, who nonetheless hasn’t fought for a UFC title in his electrical tenure.
