Daniel Cormier IS BACK at UFC 330 with fresh editions of the DC Check-In, starting with Ian Machado Garry ahead of his MASSIVE TITLE FIGHT against the UFC's pound-for-pound No. 1 Islam Makhachev. Ian doubles down on his guarantee to beat the double champ, and knows a win at Philly's UFC 330 is his "destiny." Plus, don't miss his son Leo make a special cameo on the DC Show! #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Was something, man, you want to do it? Are you
gonna do it? Look at this guy? But what do
you teaching him how to be in front of the
camp marg.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
He just wants to do Really, I'm not teaching abo anything.
What do you think about? How many times have I this?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is eight times? He's following, so he knows what
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You want to get you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, look at his name, Daniel Cormier show, so that
knows when you're talking into it what he's doing. So
to asking the question question.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
My name is Daniel, So I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Know if you I don't know if you and me
have sat there and watched DC sites before, we should
do it? Double chump. He had two belts he wanted
to exactly. Yeah, he did it before it Now did
you know that? Is that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You're fighting? Your dad's fighting? Islama? You excited?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Can I get two belts? Let's get the first one
that's for me. Oh, I can get you one. I'll
win one and then you can win one. Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
I need to try someone out. You need to try
to knock someone out, try to get the belt. Okay,
we can do that. How about you train with me?
(01:37):
You trained with Dami and my be trained with Strout
and Childs, and we'll get you ready to win a
world time. How do you think? Good job? Agreed? You
know I need to do work.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But is your work?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I went tonight. We're gonna go tell you what. We're
gonna go back. I'm gonna show you. Look you've met
d C. Now I'm going to show you DC one
of the Grand Prix that was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
How you doing. I'm very good feeling, man, Finally here,
I finally got here.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's been a while. It's unbelievable. Yeah, ready for it?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, guys, I'm here at Ian Machado Gary as he
gets ready to challenge for the UFC Walterweight Championship this weekend, Philadelphia,
UFC three thirty one. It seems like this has been
a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I can recall your very first fighter meeting. You sat
on that table and you literally sat on the table
and told us all that we would be here at
some point. How did you have the foresight to see
that when you were such a young kid, at least
it seemed like you were so young coming into this organization.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I just I know, I know talent to them, But
talent can only get you so far. I work harder
than everyone. I'm intelligible my approach and fighting. I see
fights differently. I see fighting differently to most. That's why
I believe I'm special and why other people can't do
the things I can do. And I love this. If
(03:11):
I'm not enjoying myself, then why am I here. I
love every moment of this. I love coming here and
doing all the interviews, doing the media obligations. It brings
up the energy, ramps up the anticipation for the fight.
And then Saturday night, when the stage is bright and
the lights are shining and I show up, I have
the most one, and that's what I want to I
like to compete. I like that atmosphere, I like that energy.
(03:34):
And this weekend I've got the toughest TSK I could
possibly ask one. I'm so excited for it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Have you done anything in prior fights to prepare yourself
for this week? Specifically, not in terms of the fighting,
because in terms of the fighting, we cover all those
bases in the gym. I'm talking about the mental wear
and tear of all the more media, the being having
to go and do the face off and all these
other things that come with being tied to a championship opportunity.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think when it comes to everything that we have
to do in the big in the big fights, and
all the media obligations and everything that is required, it's
second nature to me. I'm destined for greatness, and part
of the greatness is showing up and doing the work
and doing the obligations to help grow the sport and
(04:22):
help bring more eyes to my fights.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You said this, now we've been talking for a minute
half and you said destined, destined, Like, when did you
start to feel like becoming a world champion was your destiny?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I always knew as a kid, I was great at everything,
but I was never the best at anything. And I
knew that there was going to be something that crossed
my path. I could just feel it. And when MMA
kicked off an Ireland because of Connor, went, that's it. Yeah,
(04:54):
that's what I need to do. And I remember sitting
there watching John Jones with Saint Pierre, yourself, Anderson Silva
like the greatest of all time. I watched all of
your guys fights and I was like, I can do
all of that. I'm watching it without ever training. I
was like, I can do all this, and I was
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at that point as a probably a sixteen year old kid,
I was like, that's it. I'm gonna go and achieve that.
I want to be the best known of that this sport.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, the USA, and when you speak about in Ireland,
the sport blowing up Connor McGregor, right, every time you
get a guy like that from a country like that,
the next person is just flooded with pressure, Like there's
just so much pressure, especially whenever you're a person that
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is willing to speak his truth, to speak what he
wants to happen, because then we all start to compare
it to what McGregor did. Did you feel a pressure
being an Irish kid coming into this sport that he
was the biggest superstar of all time and everybody so
closely relating what you are going to do to what
he had done.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I got the nickname the Future from my first amateur
m fight I walked out. It was the biggest amateur
show in Irish and Irish m May at the time.
I walked out a guy through a leg kick boom
left hook, knocked him unconscious and then the commentators lost
their mind. I say, ladies and gentlemen, have we just
seen the future. I knew it before i'd entered that octagon,
(06:24):
before I entered that case, that I was I was
the next heir to the throne for Irish MMA. I
was going to be the guy that was going to
carry this sport for the second generation. I knew that
then and I'm living it now. I I've always wanted
to be that guy, to be the person who's leading
the second wave of Irish m Being compared to Connor
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and his greatness and what he achieved in the octagon,
I don't see that as a negative in any way,
shape or form. But I am me. I'm different. I'm
forging my own legacy, my own path to greatness, and
I'm not in this world to live up to anyone
else's expectation. I'm in this world to live up to mind,
and I have the highest expectations of myself every single fight.
(07:09):
Every day I wake up as a dad, a fighter,
a husband. Every day.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
When you when you get this fight right, ultimately your
whole career bills to this moment to fight for the
world championship. It's Islamikacha, the number one fighter in the world.
What's the initial feel when you get that call? Because
I will tell you this, when I got to fight
John Jones, it was so much better than thinking I
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would fight someone else, because whether you win or you
fail greatly, you get to challenge yourself the absolute best,
at least in my case, because I lost, but I
still found so much joy in prepping for that challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But would would you rather lose to one of the
greatest of all time or fight I wanted that big
thing that's the competitor in you. I never approach a
fight in my life thinking I'm going to lose. I
know I can win this fight against this I know
Islam can win this fight against me. I know how
a fight goes, and you goin if you have any
(08:11):
momentary lapse in concentration, it goes the other way. I
know how big this fight is, and I know how
phenomenally talented Islam Makshev is. I eve earned this fight.
I deserve this fight, but I am so happy it's
him because he is one of the greatest we've ever
seen in this sport, and he has done everything he's
needed to do to deserve that respect. And I said it.
(08:34):
I said it when I beat I, when I beat
Carlos Pratis, I said, I'm next. But if it's not
mactually wants to come up to this division and challenge
and achieve that second belt, then everybody needs to take
a step back and give him the respect he deserves
because he's absolutely one of the greatest you've ever seen.
He's done it. He is a two eight world champion.
Now he has achieved I'm assuming everything he's wanted to
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achieve in this sport, and he has a record that
he can break this weekend. I'm not getting the greatest
fighter on the planet right now, Who's I'm that kind
of closely following off, He's at the peak of his career.
He is at the top of his career in a
new weight division, with a new sense of life in
his body and his bones. That's the man I get
(09:19):
to beat the proof on the best.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Do you think that that respect and acknowledgment of that
makes you even a bigger challenge because you know that
there's there's a threat, so you prepare yourself even more
and you're ready. I think so many guys, even fighting
those guys lack confidence. You have no lack of confidence.
I can feel it coming off.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I think it's not about respecting him more, it's about
that's the challenge I want. I want to beat that
guy to prove to the world I'm the best, because
when I beat him, nobody has any questions anymore. He
am a shadow. Gary is great. He has just beaten
one of the top ten greatest of all time. Then
(10:04):
what can they say? Does that make sense? So for me,
I've relish this opportunity. I've earned this opportunity, and I'm
glad and I'm happy that it's Islam because there is
no I believe, in my opinion, there's no tougher challenge
for a challenger to challenge for the world title. What
Islam has done the win streak he's on right now,
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a two weight world champion, sixteen fight win streak or whatever,
that the record is right now and he's trying to
break that with his victorians with a victory on Saturday night.
If he gets one, that I get to stop that.
My job this weekend is about stopping his his history,
his legacy and creating my own. My own history that
(10:47):
I create this week is I become the second UFC's
champion from Ireland. My legacy this week is I become
the most victorious Irishman in ull see history. I passed
Connor for wins in the sport. So I think about
his history and his legacy and stopping it, but I
think about creating mind. Yeah, that's what makes this fight
so big, so interesting, And I'm dude, I cannot tell
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you how focused I am on this fight, how ready
I am for it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You have faced guys in shaff Cut that people always
so good, and you had such a great fight. Do
you think that that fight helped you prepare for this
specific challenge this weekend, being that you've been in there
with a guy that possessed a lot of the same
type of skills.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
There's an argument to say that Shavka is slightly more
dangerous just due to the fact that he had when
when I fought him in short notice, he had finished
fights and eighteen finishes, and it wasn't like it was
eighteen submissions. It was ten knockouts and eight submissions or
nine and nine. Yeah, it was evenly matched. So he
was able to knock you out on the feet, and
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he was able to submit you, and he was able
to do it in fifteen fifteen minutes. So there was
an element to me that's as he was potentially more dangerous,
not more dominant, but more dangerous. I could say the
same argument against Corlis practice is arguably more dangerous to
fight than Isa Makroshev because he has that switch hits
(12:19):
you once in, it's game over. And when I fought
him on three weeks short notice, again, he was on
an eleven fight knockout streak. And since I fought him,
he's continued the same track, the trend and the common
denominated of all these things. And I'm better, and you
always stop it. And I stopped his win streak, I
stopped his knockout streak, and this week I stopped Islam's
consecutive win streak.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I think that you have a great mind for fighting. Right,
So when you look at ISLAMI Kahov, what do you
see as an opponent? And how has your preparation been?
How have you prepared? Where have you prepared for what
will be the uh? It's the greatest night of your career,
at least at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've dude, I've left no stone until and I traveled
to Georgia. I felt some of the Georgian national wrestling team.
I wanted to feel their style because it is a
different style. You've trained with these guys for years. You
know far bet more than I do about how their
style is, the way they wrestle, the way they use
different techniques. So I wanted to feel a more similar
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style to that, and that was the start of my camp.
Then I went to Brazil and I met up with
the team in Brazil and we discussed ways to work
on the ground, and then we evolved on to defeat
and I have over the last nine months prepared myself
not to beat Islam, but to become the champion of
the world. Yeah, I'm ready now to take this round,
to be the best in the world, to carry the
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burden of being being that guy with the tiger is back.
I'm ready for it all.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You know. I sit here and obviously I've known you
said the very first one, and I really have grown
to have a real like of Ian Gary. I like
your career, I like the way you carry yourself and everything.
I had this kind of conversation with someone the other day.
I saw a picture. You had a book where it
said one data champion another day another day. It was
just visualizing it's right, just visualizing everything right, and it
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seems like everything should be. When com McGregor did all
these things, everybody just loved it and praised it. But
it's not like you get the respect of that. Can
you feel that? And I don't understand why, like why
having people Why don't people from the outside recognize how
dangerous they fight this is this weekend because guess what,
anyone in the know understand how difficult it is for
(14:36):
ISLAMI Katschev this weekend facing Ian Gary. But it just
seems like there's like a little bit of a disconnect
from the general fan to the people that are in
knowledge of this thing.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't search for the people's respect. Yeah, between many
as a competitor, you and I both know what it
means for me to go out here and beat asamak Chev. Yes,
I don't care for the outside world's opinions. I know
what happens when I beat Islam. I know the legacy
it creates, and I know how it changes me and
my opinion of me as a fighter. It cements myself
(15:13):
forevermore as a champion of the world. My name goes
down in history as a former. When I finish a
former champion of the world. There is that will never
be taken away from me, someone else's opinions of me
as a fighter, compared to this guy, compared to that guy.
It's relevant when I went on Saturday Night against Islam Makshev.
I will forevermore be a former UFC world champion, and
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I have a destiny and a goal at a decade
of domination. If I choose to, I'm twenty eight years
of age. Just engage, you just want a world titler
thirty eight years of age. Alexander Volkanowski is thirty eight
years of age, still the champion of the world. I
have ten years of domination at the highest level in
the sport. If I want to, and I choose to
continue this, that's the legacy I see for myself, not
other people's outside thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, what a Saturday night mean to you? You win
that belt and you hear a new UFC Walter Waight
champion Ian Gary, What would that mean to you to
not only you, your family, your team and everybody that
surrounds you so closely.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It would be me proving that that kid who was
sixteen years old sat in Dublin, Ireland, watching UC highlights
from way back when and forging that dream of wanting
to be one of the greatest fighters of all time.
It makes that dream come true. It makes every single moment,
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every sacrifice, every day of dedication, every training session, every up,
every down, every twist, every turn, every high, every low.
It makes all of it worth it to prove that
I was right. But more importantly, I get to share
it with the people I love. Yeah, I get to
share it with my little boy, my wife, my team,
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my family, the people that I care about in this world.
I get to do it with them present. We get
the celebrant and have the time of our life.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You ever think back to think that that kid back
in Dublin actually dare to dream that great? Isn't it amazing?
Like sometimes a person can just really dare to dream
that big.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I have a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Most people think it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I have a tattoo on my ribs that says love
the life you live, and live the life you love.
And I'm living. I'm living the dream my front.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Awesome good luck this weekend. Guys Ian Machadle Gary challenges
for the Waldweight Championship this weekend. Unbelievable dude, unbelievable fighter,
tapping everything he's doing, Instagram threads. They got so many
social media follow him and everything he does. He's a
tremendous guy. Until next time, Like subscribe and tell you
friends tell their friends that DC's got a YouTube channel.
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I'm checking it with people like Ian Gary and watch
the fight sweek in live on Paramount Plus. Till next time, Peace,
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Was something, man, you want to do it? Are you
gonna do it? Look at this guy? But what do
you teaching him how to be in front of the
camp marg.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
He just wants to do Really, I'm not teaching abo anything.
What do you think about? How many times have I this?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is eight times? He's following, so he knows what
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You want to get you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, look at his name, Daniel Cormier show, so that
knows when you're talking into it what he's doing. So
to asking the question question.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
My name is Daniel, So I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Know if you I don't know if you and me
have sat there and watched DC sites before, we should
do it? Double chump. He had two belts he wanted
to exactly. Yeah, he did it before it Now did
you know that? Is that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You're fighting? Your dad's fighting? Islama? You excited?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Can I get two belts? Let's get the first one
that's for me. Oh, I can get you one. I'll
win one and then you can win one. Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
I need to try someone out. You need to try
to knock someone out, try to get the belt. Okay,
we can do that. How about you train with me?
(01:37):
You trained with Dami and my be trained with Strout
and Childs, and we'll get you ready to win a
world time. How do you think? Good job? Agreed? You
know I need to do work.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But is your work?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I went tonight. We're gonna go tell you what. We're
gonna go back. I'm gonna show you. Look you've met
d C. Now I'm going to show you DC one
of the Grand Prix that was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
How you doing. I'm very good feeling, man, Finally here,
I finally got here.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's been a while. It's unbelievable. Yeah, ready for it?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, guys, I'm here at Ian Machado Gary as he
gets ready to challenge for the UFC Walterweight Championship this weekend, Philadelphia,
UFC three thirty one. It seems like this has been
a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I can recall your very first fighter meeting. You sat
on that table and you literally sat on the table
and told us all that we would be here at
some point. How did you have the foresight to see
that when you were such a young kid, at least
it seemed like you were so young coming into this organization.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I just I know, I know talent to them, But
talent can only get you so far. I work harder
than everyone. I'm intelligible my approach and fighting. I see
fights differently. I see fighting differently to most. That's why
I believe I'm special and why other people can't do
the things I can do. And I love this. If
(03:11):
I'm not enjoying myself, then why am I here. I
love every moment of this. I love coming here and
doing all the interviews, doing the media obligations. It brings
up the energy, ramps up the anticipation for the fight.
And then Saturday night, when the stage is bright and
the lights are shining and I show up, I have
the most one, and that's what I want to I
like to compete. I like that atmosphere, I like that energy.
(03:34):
And this weekend I've got the toughest TSK I could
possibly ask one. I'm so excited for it.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Have you done anything in prior fights to prepare yourself
for this week? Specifically, not in terms of the fighting,
because in terms of the fighting, we cover all those
bases in the gym. I'm talking about the mental wear
and tear of all the more media, the being having
to go and do the face off and all these
other things that come with being tied to a championship opportunity.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think when it comes to everything that we have
to do in the big in the big fights, and
all the media obligations and everything that is required, it's
second nature to me. I'm destined for greatness, and part
of the greatness is showing up and doing the work
and doing the obligations to help grow the sport and
(04:22):
help bring more eyes to my fights.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You said this, now we've been talking for a minute
half and you said destined, destined, Like, when did you
start to feel like becoming a world champion was your destiny?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I always knew as a kid, I was great at everything,
but I was never the best at anything. And I
knew that there was going to be something that crossed
my path. I could just feel it. And when MMA
kicked off an Ireland because of Connor, went, that's it. Yeah,
(04:54):
that's what I need to do. And I remember sitting
there watching John Jones with Saint Pierre, yourself, Anderson Silva
like the greatest of all time. I watched all of
your guys fights and I was like, I can do
all of that. I'm watching it without ever training. I
was like, I can do all this, and I was
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at that point as a probably a sixteen year old kid,
I was like, that's it. I'm gonna go and achieve that.
I want to be the best known of that this sport.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, the USA, and when you speak about in Ireland,
the sport blowing up Connor McGregor, right, every time you
get a guy like that from a country like that,
the next person is just flooded with pressure, Like there's
just so much pressure, especially whenever you're a person that
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is willing to speak his truth, to speak what he
wants to happen, because then we all start to compare
it to what McGregor did. Did you feel a pressure
being an Irish kid coming into this sport that he
was the biggest superstar of all time and everybody so
closely relating what you are going to do to what
he had done.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I got the nickname the Future from my first amateur
m fight I walked out. It was the biggest amateur
show in Irish and Irish m May at the time.
I walked out a guy through a leg kick boom
left hook, knocked him unconscious and then the commentators lost
their mind. I say, ladies and gentlemen, have we just
seen the future. I knew it before i'd entered that octagon,
(06:24):
before I entered that case, that I was I was
the next heir to the throne for Irish MMA. I
was going to be the guy that was going to
carry this sport for the second generation. I knew that
then and I'm living it now. I I've always wanted
to be that guy, to be the person who's leading
the second wave of Irish m Being compared to Connor
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and his greatness and what he achieved in the octagon,
I don't see that as a negative in any way,
shape or form. But I am me. I'm different. I'm
forging my own legacy, my own path to greatness, and
I'm not in this world to live up to anyone
else's expectation. I'm in this world to live up to mind,
and I have the highest expectations of myself every single fight.
(07:09):
Every day I wake up as a dad, a fighter,
a husband. Every day.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
When you when you get this fight right, ultimately your
whole career bills to this moment to fight for the
world championship. It's Islamikacha, the number one fighter in the world.
What's the initial feel when you get that call? Because
I will tell you this, when I got to fight
John Jones, it was so much better than thinking I
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would fight someone else, because whether you win or you
fail greatly, you get to challenge yourself the absolute best,
at least in my case, because I lost, but I
still found so much joy in prepping for that challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But would would you rather lose to one of the
greatest of all time or fight I wanted that big
thing that's the competitor in you. I never approach a
fight in my life thinking I'm going to lose. I
know I can win this fight against this I know
Islam can win this fight against me. I know how
a fight goes, and you goin if you have any
(08:11):
momentary lapse in concentration, it goes the other way. I
know how big this fight is, and I know how
phenomenally talented Islam Makshev is. I eve earned this fight.
I deserve this fight, but I am so happy it's
him because he is one of the greatest we've ever
seen in this sport, and he has done everything he's
needed to do to deserve that respect. And I said it.
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I said it when I beat I, when I beat
Carlos Pratis, I said, I'm next. But if it's not
mactually wants to come up to this division and challenge
and achieve that second belt, then everybody needs to take
a step back and give him the respect he deserves
because he's absolutely one of the greatest you've ever seen.
He's done it. He is a two eight world champion.
Now he has achieved I'm assuming everything he's wanted to
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achieve in this sport, and he has a record that
he can break this weekend. I'm not getting the greatest
fighter on the planet right now, Who's I'm that kind
of closely following off, He's at the peak of his career.
He is at the top of his career in a
new weight division, with a new sense of life in
his body and his bones. That's the man I get
(09:19):
to beat the proof on the best.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Do you think that that respect and acknowledgment of that
makes you even a bigger challenge because you know that
there's there's a threat, so you prepare yourself even more
and you're ready. I think so many guys, even fighting
those guys lack confidence. You have no lack of confidence.
I can feel it coming off.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I think it's not about respecting him more, it's about
that's the challenge I want. I want to beat that
guy to prove to the world I'm the best, because
when I beat him, nobody has any questions anymore. He
am a shadow. Gary is great. He has just beaten
one of the top ten greatest of all time. Then
(10:04):
what can they say? Does that make sense? So for me,
I've relish this opportunity. I've earned this opportunity, and I'm
glad and I'm happy that it's Islam because there is
no I believe, in my opinion, there's no tougher challenge
for a challenger to challenge for the world title. What
Islam has done the win streak he's on right now,
(10:27):
a two weight world champion, sixteen fight win streak or whatever,
that the record is right now and he's trying to
break that with his victorians with a victory on Saturday night.
If he gets one, that I get to stop that.
My job this weekend is about stopping his his history,
his legacy and creating my own. My own history that
(10:47):
I create this week is I become the second UFC's
champion from Ireland. My legacy this week is I become
the most victorious Irishman in ull see history. I passed
Connor for wins in the sport. So I think about
his history and his legacy and stopping it, but I
think about creating mind. Yeah, that's what makes this fight
so big, so interesting, And I'm dude, I cannot tell
(11:12):
you how focused I am on this fight, how ready
I am for it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You have faced guys in shaff Cut that people always
so good, and you had such a great fight. Do
you think that that fight helped you prepare for this
specific challenge this weekend, being that you've been in there
with a guy that possessed a lot of the same
type of skills.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
There's an argument to say that Shavka is slightly more
dangerous just due to the fact that he had when
when I fought him in short notice, he had finished
fights and eighteen finishes, and it wasn't like it was
eighteen submissions. It was ten knockouts and eight submissions or
nine and nine. Yeah, it was evenly matched. So he
was able to knock you out on the feet, and
(11:54):
he was able to submit you, and he was able
to do it in fifteen fifteen minutes. So there was
an element to me that's as he was potentially more dangerous,
not more dominant, but more dangerous. I could say the
same argument against Corlis practice is arguably more dangerous to
fight than Isa Makroshev because he has that switch hits
(12:19):
you once in, it's game over. And when I fought
him on three weeks short notice, again, he was on
an eleven fight knockout streak. And since I fought him,
he's continued the same track, the trend and the common
denominated of all these things. And I'm better, and you
always stop it. And I stopped his win streak, I
stopped his knockout streak, and this week I stopped Islam's
consecutive win streak.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I think that you have a great mind for fighting. Right,
So when you look at ISLAMI Kahov, what do you
see as an opponent? And how has your preparation been?
How have you prepared? Where have you prepared for what
will be the uh? It's the greatest night of your career,
at least at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've dude, I've left no stone until and I traveled
to Georgia. I felt some of the Georgian national wrestling team.
I wanted to feel their style because it is a
different style. You've trained with these guys for years. You
know far bet more than I do about how their
style is, the way they wrestle, the way they use
different techniques. So I wanted to feel a more similar
(13:21):
style to that, and that was the start of my camp.
Then I went to Brazil and I met up with
the team in Brazil and we discussed ways to work
on the ground, and then we evolved on to defeat
and I have over the last nine months prepared myself
not to beat Islam, but to become the champion of
the world. Yeah, I'm ready now to take this round,
to be the best in the world, to carry the
(13:42):
burden of being being that guy with the tiger is back.
I'm ready for it all.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You know. I sit here and obviously I've known you
said the very first one, and I really have grown
to have a real like of Ian Gary. I like
your career, I like the way you carry yourself and everything.
I had this kind of conversation with someone the other day.
I saw a picture. You had a book where it
said one data champion another day another day. It was
just visualizing it's right, just visualizing everything right, and it
(14:11):
seems like everything should be. When com McGregor did all
these things, everybody just loved it and praised it. But
it's not like you get the respect of that. Can
you feel that? And I don't understand why, like why
having people Why don't people from the outside recognize how
dangerous they fight this is this weekend because guess what,
anyone in the know understand how difficult it is for
(14:36):
ISLAMI Katschev this weekend facing Ian Gary. But it just
seems like there's like a little bit of a disconnect
from the general fan to the people that are in
knowledge of this thing.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't search for the people's respect. Yeah, between many
as a competitor, you and I both know what it
means for me to go out here and beat asamak Chev. Yes,
I don't care for the outside world's opinions. I know
what happens when I beat Islam. I know the legacy
it creates, and I know how it changes me and
my opinion of me as a fighter. It cements myself
(15:13):
forevermore as a champion of the world. My name goes
down in history as a former. When I finish a
former champion of the world. There is that will never
be taken away from me, someone else's opinions of me
as a fighter, compared to this guy, compared to that guy.
It's relevant when I went on Saturday Night against Islam Makshev.
I will forevermore be a former UFC world champion, and
(15:34):
I have a destiny and a goal at a decade
of domination. If I choose to, I'm twenty eight years
of age. Just engage, you just want a world titler
thirty eight years of age. Alexander Volkanowski is thirty eight
years of age, still the champion of the world. I
have ten years of domination at the highest level in
the sport. If I want to, and I choose to
continue this, that's the legacy I see for myself, not
other people's outside thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, what a Saturday night mean to you? You win
that belt and you hear a new UFC Walter Waight
champion Ian Gary, What would that mean to you to
not only you, your family, your team and everybody that
surrounds you so closely.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It would be me proving that that kid who was
sixteen years old sat in Dublin, Ireland, watching UC highlights
from way back when and forging that dream of wanting
to be one of the greatest fighters of all time.
It makes that dream come true. It makes every single moment,
(16:34):
every sacrifice, every day of dedication, every training session, every up,
every down, every twist, every turn, every high, every low.
It makes all of it worth it to prove that
I was right. But more importantly, I get to share
it with the people I love. Yeah, I get to
share it with my little boy, my wife, my team,
(16:55):
my family, the people that I care about in this world.
I get to do it with them present. We get
the celebrant and have the time of our life.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You ever think back to think that that kid back
in Dublin actually dare to dream that great? Isn't it amazing?
Like sometimes a person can just really dare to dream
that big.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I have a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Most people think it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I have a tattoo on my ribs that says love
the life you live, and live the life you love.
And I'm living. I'm living the dream my front.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Awesome good luck this weekend. Guys Ian Machadle Gary challenges
for the Waldweight Championship this weekend. Unbelievable dude, unbelievable fighter,
tapping everything he's doing, Instagram threads. They got so many
social media follow him and everything he does. He's a
tremendous guy. Until next time, Like subscribe and tell you
friends tell their friends that DC's got a YouTube channel.
(17:47):
I'm checking it with people like Ian Gary and watch
the fight sweek in live on Paramount Plus. Till next time, Peace,
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Colin Cowherd
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