Ian Machado Garry is doing whatever in his power to protect a welterweight face-off with Colby Covington.
The Irishman, 7-0 in his young UFC profession to date (14-0 total), has actually made no bones of the truth that the previous three-time 170-pound title opposition is his next target in the Octagon as he continues his climb up the rankings towards title contention– and amidst a back-and-forth primarily played out on social networks to this point, Machado Garry states that Covington is dragging his heels about concurring the match.
“I simply wish to let everybody understand, I have actually consented to battle Colby Covington,” Machado Garry stated in a video published to Instagram on Tuesday.
He included: “There’s a date in location– Colby still hasn’t signed the agreement.”
Covington, who was beat by welterweight champ Leon Edwards in his latest battle late in 2015, has actually formerly intimated that he would be open to a battle with the previous Cage Warriors promote– however in a social networks video, he stated that this depended on Machado Garry accepting 3 specifications (switching on talk about his Instagram page, and another 2 including his other half).
Machado Garry stated previously this year that the theoretical battle would supply him with a chance to rid the UFC of the bold Covington.
[I know] that even if it was the very best Colby Covington we ever seen, he would never ever stand an opportunity versus me. No matter how great Colby Covington ever might be or would be, he would never ever have the ability to beat me. I’m too elite. I’m too quickly. I’m too technically dazzling. He simply does not stand an opportunity,” he informed MMA Fighting.
“I do not believe the guy should have any regard on the planet, to be sincere with you. The sh * t he talks. I’ll enter that Octagon, and I’ll retire him. That’s my objective. My entire objective to when I combat Colby Covington is that he never ever places on MMA gloves ever once again.”