Ian Machado Garry’s moment to make a real statement is now

Ian Machado GarryUFC star Ian Machado Garry is preparing to compete against Belal Muhammad in the co-main event of tonight’s UFC Qatar card. If he wins, some would argue that he has earned the right to challenge for the UFC welterweight championship – but if he does come away with the victory, you’d have to think he needs to do so convincingly.

Ian Machado Garry has certainly picked up a handful of impressive finishes during his UFC run but up to this point, his ‘biggest’ win was over Carlos Prates, and the dominating image coming out of that contest was Machado Garry crawling away in a desperate attempt to avoid a late knockout. He also put forward an admirable effort against Shavkat…