Do you respect Ian Garry now???

[bjjwar]

I respected him alot for taking the fight, but the way he’s acting now acting like he won and looked like the second coming of god is unbearable. Like bro, you did better then what we were expecting, but you lost and didnt look incredible…

 

[bobafett]

He’s a top level point fighter. I respect him but I’ll probably never be like “an Ian Garry fight! Gotta watch this”

 

[Local Plata]

For what? Getting fast tracked and marketed way more than he deserves because he has an accent? No, not really. He did better than expected, but so what? If you gave any random guy cracks at fights they dont deserve and they don't get merc'd that doesn't suddenly mean they belong to be shoved down your throat. I respect him more than Colby, though. So there's that.

 

[The_Renaissance]

He’s a top level point fighter. I respect him but I’ll probably never be like “an Ian Garry fight! Gotta watch this”

This. He did better than expected and is deceivingly strong, physically which suprrised me. But he's still a pretty boring point fighter.

 

[Pilo]

He never was my favourite, but I never understood all the stupid fucking hate he's getting, especially since a lot of that seems to take the form of echoes of immature yapping about his wife, coming from the sport's dumbest loudmouths.

The cocky demeanor/Conor-inspired gimmicks certainly aren't anything to make him likeable, but there never was any doubt that the guy can fight, and that he's pretty damn good.

 

[Ares Black]

I respect him for respecting the judges’ scores and congratulating Shavkat. He could’ve made a stink but he didn’t.
Edit: Nvm. He’s saying he won.
Well I give him credit for not panicking when Shavkat ripped him a new one. He kept his composure and changed shorts between rounds.

He's not really saying he won. He's saying he feels like he won, or more accurately that he doesn't feel like he lost. That's a pretty important distinction IMO.