{"id":38573,"date":"2026-06-01T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Fighting-Nerds-coach-Ian-Garry-has-tools-to-defeat-Islam-Makhachev-201403"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:10:56","slug":"fighting-nerds-coach-ian-garry-has-tools-to-defeat-islam-makhachev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/fighting-nerds-coach-ian-garry-has-tools-to-defeat-islam-makhachev\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Nerds coach: Ian Garry has tools to defeat Islam Makhachev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fighting-nerds-coach-ian-garry-has-tools-to-defeat-islam-makhachev.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Ian<br \/>\nGarry is expected to receive the next UFC welterweight title shot.<br \/>\n| Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/stats\/fightfinder?association=The+Fighting+Nerds\"><br \/>\nThe Fighting Nerds<\/a> coach Pablo Sucupira doesn\u2019t think <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Carlos-Prates-95593\">Carlos<br \/>\nPrates<\/a> needs to be overly patient for a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> welterweight title shot.<\/p>\n<p>Last week in an interview with <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Daniel-Cormier-52311\">Daniel<br \/>\nCormier<\/a> on the \u201cPound 4 Pound\u201d podcast, Prates <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Carlos-Prates-names-preferred-opponent-if-title-shot-isnt-next-201375\"><br \/>\nsaid<\/a> that if the UFC required him to have one more fight before<br \/>\ncompeting for the welterweight title, he would choose <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Morales-268041\">Michael<br \/>\nMorales<\/a>. In an exclusive interview with Sherdog.com on Monday,<br \/>\nSucupira disagreed with his pupil.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cPrates knocked out two former champions in a row who had never<br \/>\nbeen knocked out in the organization,\u201d Sucupira said. \u201cAfter what<br \/>\nhe did in Australia, at [Jack Della] Maddalena\u2019s house, and the way<br \/>\nhe did it, I think the title fight is the next step. Makhachev and<br \/>\nGarry should fight in August. We expect him to fight the winner by<br \/>\nthe end of the year.\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>In the view of the Fighting Nerds leader, the Irishman has<br \/>\neverything to be the most difficult challenge of the champion&#8217;s<br \/>\ncareer.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOne thing people don\u2019t realize is that there\u2019s a big physical<br \/>\ndisparity in this division,\u201d Sucupira said. \u201cThere are fighters at<br \/>\n170 pounds who could fight at 155 pounds, but there are others who<br \/>\ncould fight at 185 pounds. Maddalena, for example, isn\u2019t a big 170<br \/>\npounds, while Garry is very big. Prates, who looked big in front of<br \/>\nJDM, looked small in front of Garry. Garry is much bigger than<br \/>\nIslam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sucupira pointed to Garry\u2019s style as another complicating factor<br \/>\nfor the champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike Maddalena, Garry doesn\u2019t load up on his strikes. He uses<br \/>\nhis lead hand very well to control distance and angles a lot,\u201d the<br \/>\ncaoch said. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to take him down and keep him on the<br \/>\nbottom. In my opinion, he has the right game to beat<br \/>\nMakhachev.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Title Rematch in Brazil?<\/h2>\n<p>Sucupira acknowledges that Makhachev is an exceptional fighter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not No. 1 pound-for-pound by chance,\u201d Sucupira said. \u201cBut<br \/>\nthis fight will be the biggest challenge of his career and will<br \/>\nshow how phenomenal Islam really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach also acknowledges that his heart might be influencing his<br \/>\nanalysis of the Makhachev-Garry matchup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, Prates and Garry would be a much more interesting<br \/>\nfight for the fans,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the two agreed to have this<br \/>\nrematch for the belt in Brazil. Imagine how amazing it would be.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Garry is expected to receive the next UFC welterweight title shot. | Getty\/UFC The Fighting Nerds coach Pablo Sucupira doesn\u2019t think Carlos Prates needs to be overly patient for a UFC welterweight title shot. Last week in an interview with Daniel Cormier on the \u201cPound 4 Pound\u201d podcast, Prates said that if the UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}