“He won’t throw any punches,” Ian Machado promises Garry a first-round knockout against Belal Muhammad

Ian Machado Garry faces Belal Muhammad this weekend and sees it being a fast-paced affair. This was reflected during an interview with Mike Bohn from MMA junkie while Machado Garry covered various topics. In the co-main event clash at UFC Qatar on November 22, Machado Garry will look to defeat a former UFC welterweight champion in Muhammad, hoping to punch his ticket to his own shot at the crown.

Getting into the machinations of this matchup and how the brash Irish competitor watching this play out, Ian Machado Garry said:

“There’s no chance in hell if he stays with me that he’s going to survive the last five minutes. There’s not a chance in hell. If you want the honest reaction of what I believe that video is, that’s a man lying to himself. That’s a man playing reverse psychology and telling the world he’s good enough to do whatever he wants when realistically he knows he has to grab me. It sounds like he’s already making excuses. ‘I’m going to grab’ If you hold him, I’ll leave him up.’ So he’s going to grab me, he knows I’m going to defend.

Ian Machado Garry: ‘I intend to knock [Belal Muhammad] out in the first round”

As he further outlined his overview for this important bout in the deep 170-pound weight category, Ian Machado Garry continued:

“You see what I mean? You see the path, the thought patterns that I see. You’ve been thinking about this every day of your life for the last eight weeks. You have an idea in your head of how it’s going to go. You don’t have to study, you don’t have to pause, you don’t have to breathe. I just don’t think he learned anything from his last fight if he has this approach. So I think, I think he’s lying to the world. Yes. I can do it. I can tell you right here and now that I’m going Belal beat him wherever I want, but I plan to knock him out in the first round.”

“If he shows up and tries to box me, he won’t throw a single punch. That’s my promise to you right now. There’s a reason I’m looking forward to it so much – well, after this fight will be my seventeenth professional win. It’s because I don’t get hit that often. Belal, honestly, I don’t want to get annoyed, but there’s just no world where he shows up and tries to beat me. If he does, he’s an idiot.”