Ian Machado Garry is back with another unique prediction for how he’ll win at UFC 298, but we think he may want to take this one back to the workshop for a little fine tuning before fight week.
“The Future” has lifted several elements of his shtick from Conor McGregor — one of them being “Mystic” Mac’s pre-fight prophecies on how his fights will end. Fair enough: everybody loves watching someone call their shot and try to hit it. Although Garry’s latest prediction for his UFC 298 bout against Geoff Neal is just … strange.
“What am I going to finish him with? I am going to make him quit,” Garry declared in a new video post on Instagram. “He’ll choose when he’s done.”
“I’d like to kick him to the body and have him do that — when the dog’s sh***ing. The dogs look at you like, when they’re pooing, for protection. That’s what they do, right? Dogs look at their owners when they’re pooing because that’s when they’re vulnerable for attack.”
Okay, then.
Garry hopes to continue his rise up the welterweight rankings on February 17th. A win over Neal would jump him from No. 10 to No. 8, where he hopes to strike at top names in the division like Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman. Maybe he can even convince former middleweight champion Sean Strickland to fight?
Garry and Strickland have beef after Sean kicked off a social media storm targeting Garry’s wife. We don’t need to rehash everything “Tarzan” said about the situation, but her perpetual presence has some fans wondering whether she’s the puppet master behind a lot of his pre-fight antics.
Not that the Machado Garry family hides this — they released the footage that showed her helping Garry make a controversial Geoff Neal mugshot shirt. In this latest strange Instagram video you can hear her laughing in the background at her husband’s dog poop joke.
Ian was forced to pull out of his last fight at UFC 296 due to a bad case of pneumonia, right at the peak of the internet’s obsession with the intimate details of his relationship. A lot of that has died down because the internet has the attention span of a goldfish, but things could heat right back up when Garry arrives in Anaheim, California for UFC 298 fight week.
It will be interesting to see how he performs when the mental warfare is being waged against him instead of being directed at his opponent.
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
