Ian Garry Activity Appreciation Thread

[Substance Abuse]

Odds-wise yes, but then most fighters eventually lose a fight they're heavily favoured in, especially if they're coming in to the UFC with 7 fights on their record.

D-Rod and Magny are serious wins for someone with so little experience.

The UFC has also been trying to make him a thing and ever since he picked up some steam with the fans, they're offering him more fights. I highly doubt everyone else who isn't as active is being offered as many bouts as him. That said, I appreciate fighters who keep active schedules. It's one of the things I appreciate about Adesanya the most.

 

[wwkirk]

I always appreciate an active fighter and I agree with giving some credit to Ian Garry on his activity by modern standards. Izzy is another fighter that comes to mind as keeping pretty active by modern standards.

Garry fought 3x in 2023 (so far), 2x in 2022, 3x in 2021, 2x in 2020, 3x in 2019 (beginning of career).
So he is pretty consistently 2-3 fights a year.

Recently I was looking at some Mike Tyson stats. First three years of Mike Tysons professional boxing career:

1985 (first active year) - 15 fights
1986 - 13 fights
1987 - 4 fights
1988 - 3 fights
and in general fluctuations between 0 - 3 fights per year for rest of career.

First two years of career, 28 fights. Garry first two years of career 5 fights.

I haven't done any real analysis of boxing avg fights in first two years, but that's just a contrast that really jumps out at me, the insane activity of a fighter like Mike Tyson in first few years of fighting, versus average activity of an MMA fighter in first few years of fighting at least in the modern era.

Incredible numbers for early Tyson! Are there still many boxers who fight, say, 8+ times a year?

 

[AmericanMMA]

Ian Garry did ok!

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

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I did one of these for Israel Adesanya, and something similar for Sean Strickland, too.

Some guys just deserve credit.

Ian Garry is 6-0 in the UFC, and has only been signed for 21 months.

Gilbert Urbina has been signed for longer than that and is 1-1.

Ramiz Brahimaj has been signed for a full year longer than Garry and is 2-2.

The most celebrated heavy schedule dudes like Donald Cerrone only fought marginally more frequently than this (7 fights in his first 19 months), but Garry doesn't seem to get a lot of credit for his ability to fight regularly.

I think this is a fantastic achievement for Garry, and to storm straight to the #11 ranked spot at 170 lbs?

Awesome stuff.

You don't have to like Garry's fights or his persona or whatever he does that annoys you - but you do have to respect that schedule.

For some reason he has a lot of haters. I find his fights pretty bad ass and he clearly has top 10 potential. He is pretty athletic, too.

BTW he said so himself, he paced himself when he had magny hurt. It s smart.

Ok he cringe AF on the mic but who cares, you need charisma go watch a movie or something.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I can't get past the thing with him taking his wife's ex-husband's name.

Wut.
That's the most cucked shit in history.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

That's a strange thing to get hung up on.

It s actually pretty fucked up....

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Garry is his family name. Machado is her family name. Together they are the Machado Garry family.

Aaaah now i get the weird Machado thing in his name.

 

[Deleted member 592659]

Bring him to Dagestan to train TD and explain that “family name thing

until then I skip

 

[ChimRichalds]

It s actually pretty fucked up....

That he took her name? Or that the guy had a problem with it.

 

[davidj5491]

If he could just shut the hell up and let his fighting do his talking for him, he'd be a lot more tolerable. Every time I try to start to support him, he opens his mouth and reminds me what an idiot he is.

 

[Sasha]

A lot of guys are active as they work their way up the ranks. But once they reach the top of their respective division, they magically become rankings squatters. And once they win the belt, forget about it. Shout out to guys like MM, Izzy, and Usman for being active champions.

Let us know when Garry gets to the top of the division and continues fighting 2-3 times per year.

<(Those higher ranked guys are paid well too much. Garry is a model slave comrade employee volunteer-prostitute independent contractor)

 

[Deleted member 585708]

The UFC has also been trying to make him a thing and ever since he picked up some steam with the fans, they're offering him more fights. I highly doubt everyone else who isn't as active is being offered as many bouts as him. That said, I appreciate fighters who keep active schedules. It's one of the things I appreciate about Adesanya the most.

Yeah, that's possible.

He still has to avoid injuries and turning down fights, I guess.

I also agree with those saying he's a bit annoying - but his activity I do respect!

 

[Luvhawky]

Now if only he could stay this active, but not talk at all.

How boring would the sport be if fighters didn't talk? I like him talking, it's entertaining.

 

[laleggenda27]

<(Those higher ranked guys are paid well too much. Garry is a model slave comrade employee volunteer-prostitute independent contractor)

It's definitely a two-way street, in terms of fighters squatting on their rankings/titles and the UFC cutting corners by keeping higher-paid fighters inactive.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Dude has two first names, I don’t trust him

 

[MeatWagon06]

How boring would the sport be if fighters didn't talk? I like him talking, it's entertaining.

 

[MeatWagon06]

Dude has two first names, I don’t trust him

And his wife’s last name…

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

That he took her name? Or that the guy had a problem with it.

That hw took her name but it was fake news anyways.

 

[AmonTobin]

Man oh man. If the top 50 fighters, men and women, all fought 3 times a year…We’d be so spoiled.

 

[Dirty Frank]

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I did one of these for Israel Adesanya, and something similar for Sean Strickland, too.

Some guys just deserve credit.

Ian Garry is 6-0 in the UFC, and has only been signed for 21 months.

Gilbert Urbina has been signed for longer than that and is 1-1.

Ramiz Brahimaj has been signed for a full year longer than Garry and is 2-2.

The most celebrated heavy schedule dudes like Donald Cerrone only fought marginally more frequently than this (7 fights in his first 19 months), but Garry doesn't seem to get a lot of credit for his ability to fight regularly.

I think this is a fantastic achievement for Garry, and to storm straight to the #11 ranked spot at 170 lbs?

Awesome stuff.

You don't have to like Garry's fights or his persona or whatever he does that annoys you - but you do have to respect that schedule.

Well, hespect for that schedule.
And then not much hespect for anything else about him.