Ian Garry | UFC 268 Debut Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode Ian Garry joins us to discuss the Countdown to his upcoming UFC Debut in MSG New York on UFC 268 Saturday the 6th of November. We also discuss Ian's recent documentary, Winning the Cage Warriors World Title &…

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[Music] energize show up the irish okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energize russ introduce the champ today we have the cage warriors welterweight champion the youngest undefeated fighter on the ufc roster it's the future ian gary ian how are you doing bud that's a good introduction that sounds [ __ ] that sounds tops boys you know what it will only get better one more time it would only get better in time when you add that ufc belt to the uh to the total hall so like that's the way it's going but man tell us this how was life over in the u.s absolutely unbelievable i mean all right look i love dublin i love ireland like you know this and but when you wake up every morning and it's blue blue skies sunshine and palm trees it's just a vibe like how many days have we woken up in dublin right and seen it's sunny and everyone's like right in the group chats what we're doing today where are we going what's the plan everyone's in a great mood it's just that every day there's no like it's just good vibes and i'm really happy i'm really enjoying the training and i'm enjoying i'm just enjoying the new kind of the new chapter of life and it's it's it's it's exciting it's empowering and the golf course are going out there too oh yeah it's you know it's got the most golf courses in any state in america so i'm happy yeah i just want to give a bit of background for people that are new to the show and obviously like ian was like the first proper person we actually pushed on our page as well ian came on into ross's living room cups of tea and all like one and all with a broken hand and then ian like like like how many times have you said where you're gonna go and then to actually be where you are now and to witness the whole way through and be undefeated and be like unscratched basically it's uh it's unbelievable for everyone that's watched our show the whole way through i've seen you progress and like what a ride they've been on dude it's it's been absolutely sensational i mean i was only talking to my missus about this the other day it feel it it's destiny it's just it's a it's the path in life i'm on and i can feel it i know exactly where i'm going and what i'm gonna do and all i've gotta do is show up i've just gotta not [ __ ] this up and i've just gotta just gotta step into that cage i've gotta just live my life and enjoy it because i've got my path it's paved for me i mean i can try i can do whatever i want but it's there i'm going to be a champion i've told you i've told you every single time what i'm going to do how it's going it's like a broken record this fella all the messages in the whatsapp wrong group ross been wrong like no you haven't rushed for people sorry for for people tuning in now obviously they're going to be probably new to you as well because he's like making his debut at uc 268 on november 6th in madison square garden but ross ian is now like going to be the shawn and lloyd for the next generation of people going into the ufc what do like for the irish like people like coming up now in the amateur like just crossing into professional ranks like like what do they have to expect from uh following his direction well to be honest i think the score is the limit ian i think we've seen it from day one i mean as he says he talks the talk but he walks the walk his stand up is undeniable he's got power in both hands you know he's got all the kicks and then i think we saw on the jack jacqueline fight that no matter where the fight goes even if it's on the deck he can do it all on the ground as well and jack grant is probably one of the best jiu-jitsu players in the welterweight division in europe and ian gary he owned the fight on the ground as well i'm not only just saying that uh ian was injured going into that fight so he is one of the top prospects in the world not just out of ireland uh i'm really looking forward to seeing him fight at ufc 268. poor jordan williams this video will come out on wednesday it was actually his birthday last week then last wednesday so uh jordan he seems like a nice guy but he just is the unfortunate one who has to uh get that debut smoke they all seem like nice guys and i have nothing against them it's just i've got a job to do guys you know what i mean i've got to go whoever's across the cage away ian you have to do it for rsm man this way everyone's tuning in everyone is backing you and especially yourself you know you [ __ ] know that dude do you think that there's anything more i want to do with them and win that's all i'm going to do it's all i've ever done and it's all i'm going to continue to do i've said this this is a fight for me this fight is all is is me enjoying the fruits of my labor in all the hard work in training my ass off not going on holidays with the lives or they all go away and they go to uh they go to canada and they go to find like they're going off to vancouver and they're going off to thailand they're doing backpacking across europe and i'm like i'm just gonna stay here and train this is me now getting to sit back enjoy madison square garden going to make my debut knock someone out get a big win show the world that the future is inevitable and he's here and he's here to take over the ufc and then just sit down and watch my first ufc card live in madison square garden you know i'm actually going to get into ufc 268 which before that i want to actually just talk about the documentary that came out about yourselves last week uh it was an absolutely incredible documentary it was very very well put together especially considering it was during cover times and there were some really hard hitting scenes throughout that and to be honest i don't really want to get into the whole uh team split thing it's been said and a million times over and we all know what happened there but one thing i actually did notice throughout that is that your mrs layla was actually such a rock to you and she was actually you know she was so consoling and she was um you know such a key figure in that um whole documentary for yourself and she she has been your rock how important is she to your fight camp um what what actually does she mean to your floyd preparation because she seems to have everything organized for you and she she's always um she's always a pleasure to deal with from our end as well dude you're firstly you're right i mean that scene where i was on my bed there's a lot more to that than what people seen um in the documentary if you haven't seen it firstly go check it out it's absolutely sensational curtis pike all the shout outs he put an amazing amazing amount of work into that and it was it just it's it's brilliant from start to finish it's an emotional rollercoaster um but when we're on the bed which i just got in the text in regards to basically being kicked out of the gym and my brain was kind of a bit what what's going on wha what do i do how's what the [ __ ] is happening basically and obviously i was injured and i was like is this the energy telling me not like not to go to this fight is the energy telling me to just cancel the fight there's so many clear signs and she was she said to me look and she she had a quote i've caught my wallet that i have from a date you went on and it says it's a quote from confucius that says to do what is right and not do it is worse than cowardice and i'm like ah [ __ ] you all right that's it i'm in let's go because i'm like i know i've got to do it it's like i have to do it and sh even just that even the fact that like when i'm battling with myself a little bit and every like a lot of fighters go through those mental battles and life throws adversity at you and like champions have to overcome it but we don't overcome it alone we we choose the people we surround ourselves with and we choose our friends we choose like the family group we want to have around us and she's my core that she is she does everything for me she is my rock she's like she's the love of my life and she does she's everything and i like from the moment i've met her she's she's helped me to mature because she she's so smart so she just her mind the way she thinks empowers me and and pushes me to be a better person so dude i i couldn't i couldn't be luckier she's helping on that golf game as well but my girls get my golf games [ __ ] sick all right let's get that and just just talking about one last bit is um one thing that i think was very prevalent in that documentary is uh well jordan from the split to the documentary is a lot of people online try to make her out to be the bad guy online in the tweets and i'm sure i'm sure she she addressed it a few times i'm sure you saw it i'm sure that upset you that people were making her every bad guy but i think you can see from the documentary that she she wasn't the bad guy she was always there to support you but did that get to a fight week where people were saying she was the bad guy because i'm sure you saw it one way or the other so i seen a statement that was released blaming my manager firstly i don't think people understand i own my own management company i'm the ceo of the future group so every decision that is that sounds good every decision that is made is mine there is no no one can force me to do anything i don't want to do is she a massive part in that yes absolutely is she does she have way more knowledge in regards to sports and and like world-class like athletes and what they've done and what they've been through when you look at the resume of the people she's been she's worked with and been around and seen their teams absolutely there's not that i'd argue there's no one who has more knowledge and been around more world-class athletes than she has and she just helps me she's like right well this is what they would do and we we work ourselves in the direction it's always consistently trying to get better and better and better because if you're not trying to do that as a business and as a person then what are you doing everyone always should want to be better you guys are pushing your your your your podcast why why wouldn't you are you just going to settle for what it is now it's all right let's do it let's leave here or do you want to be bigger do you want to be better of course you do and she she has never been the bad guy and people smack her out the word uncoachable came up and i [ __ ] laughed my ass off because i'm like uncoachable is a lot of horse [ __ ] but um people like to say stuff when they're annoyed and they're bitter and i'm all right with that let people let people do what they want but anyone who knows her or who knows me knows that she is everything to me and that she is nothing but beneficial to my life and my career no that is brilliant and i will say one of the best moments ever i don't know i think you are uh on facetime to your mom i think and she had the phone and you had the belt and like that was such a touching moment as well it was just beautiful to see that stage of your story you come full circle and you to achieve that goal and then for it to finish off with you getting signed uh to the ufc was absolutely incredible it was as you would say inevitable it was actually disappointing not to be able to go yeah let me let's touch on that mom there right so obviously when you want that picture of you like absolutely tense looking a bit like ross just before he goes with the summer holidays with the belting off how much emotion was in that photo like everything was absolutely intense like all that hard work what was that feeling like it's it was if you know what i i felt it like hit me so fight week was weird look i didn't want to go into fight week without my former team or my former teammates i got like i have a lot of love and respect for all those guys and and same here i wanted them there but life's life didn't have it that way and that obviously made the journey to to that fight even harder than it already was in regards to my knee and just life in general and i had to scramble for training in a sense of like i got up i moved to england for the week before my fight i was like you know i tend to get out this [ __ ] place just go ryegate martial arts took me in and again people don't notice they say that layla's the bad guy so it's funny layla was up at half four in the morning talking to a friend of hers on the phone trying to sort out gyms she was messaging people like brad picket a bunch of people saying can you income and train something's happened in the gym everyone she messaged was very welcoming very open to have me in the gym and that was a it was amazing i woke up about three hours later and she said right so here's the people you can go train where's the here's the people here's where it is here's what you can do around it you can go to just gym and do streaming condition here you can go this she had everything sorted and i was asleep on fight week while i'm about it it is quite easy to like ask people do they want to train with like the biggest hottest on undefeated prospect in europe you know yeah yeah you know what i mean like but here's the thing though you can take that that's a stress taken off my shoulders in a week where it's already going to be hard in the sense of i have to cut weight and i have to worry about like everything else now that all that [ __ ] [ __ ] hit the fan and she takes the stress like that off me but no apparently she is she's the reason why it's you know what i mean it's a lot of bollocks i think it's only fair because i i i don't think there's ever been an opportunity for you to defend her not that you have to defend her publicly like like that's your private life but i think it's only fair especially after in that documentary that like she gets her fair shake things as well because i think from viewing the documentary look you'll actually probably notice we never commented on your situation ever because we didn't know we actually didn't really want to know either that was between you and the team that's nothing to do with us like we didn't even know during fight week ross remember is there something wrong or something like you and then and i'm like i don't need to speak about something you know i mean i'm the hottest prospect in europe and one of the most hottest prospects in the world i'm gonna just do my [ __ ] thing and people are gonna look there's gonna be [ __ ] [ __ ] from day one today to the finish and i mean it's gonna happen people always want a bit of clout they always want to grab on land grab money grabs i mean people start to do this i'm here living my life i'm in [ __ ] florida now it's a blessing in the stars like yeah we need to get into the better [ __ ] you're right you're right yeah and also if anyone hold on if anyone else if anyone else even asks you just tell them to watch this episode just like listen up let's get into the ghost [ __ ] right obviously in the in the wheelchair you got the ufc contract right and like you were just like you couldn't believe it that was something you worked for your whole entire life yeah sometimes when i'm working i see people cleaning windows and i was like that that fella could be the future in the future i mean like when you go when you got that text straight away was it was it like right you're fighting at uc 268 or like when did that like come true that's a good one um so i got that email that was like the the message i was like that was the confirmation where do you want and i was like that's it we did it i kind of knew it was coming all i had to do was basically do my job um the future the future cheers all i had to do was go in there and do my job i've told you this before lads if i go in there and done what i tried to do i knew it was coming um and i had that feeling it then obviously went i it happened i i won the title i've done it in dramatic fashion i get an a message saying where do i my contract sent it and then i had a holiday book to costa rica with my missus and while we were there we got the contract center over went through it all and then there was a poster released for november 6 oozman in covington and i'm like to my missus that's the one that's the one i'm going to be on and she's like nah she's like surely not like and i'm like that's the one that's the one i was in buying um new gloves because i left mine at home in dublin so i wasn't buying new gloves and she runs up to me and goes your honor and i was like yeah i told you happy days um yeah so thomas gary vs williams on ufc 268 this saturday november 6th yeah it was pretty cool it was it was you know it was just what a stage what a place to make my debut in the ufc to start this new chapter is continue this hype but on a bigger scale what a place to do it than the most iconic sporting venue in the world believe it or not we've actually been there we were actually at ufc 217 if apparently anyone ever list the podcast knows we were there for a gsp versus bisping i think i've told the story a million times you know what i mean oh what's going on affairs i beat you to get an introduced by bruce buffer but i won't hold that over you forever right but i was gonna ask you but obviously you do think it is fitting that uh you're fighting on the same card where the welterweight title will take place you'll get a first bird's eye view of those two guys fighting what do you actually make of that fight and how many years until we see ian gary in the cage fighting for ufc gold um i think the fight's absolutely sensational i think they're they're two amazing athletes i think we should definitely hopefully see a bit of change up in the styles i know they didn't really wrestle a rap the last time i think they both had that much respect for each other that they didn't i'm hoping that they don't this time i'm hoping that the rivalries got worse and they want to mix it up because it's just there for an entertaining fight if they do i i don't see using them being beat lads i think he's that that good i think he's just so dominant and i think he'll just be the more clinical fighter he'll just he'll be smarter i think kobe has to go out there and put it on him so yeah it'd be interesting to see and i'm gonna enjoy i'm gonna sit back and watch i'm going to enjoy every second of our flight i've never been to ufc event live lads yeah the miss snail man is it it's one of the best shows you you'll ever see uh i agree with you i think uh especially use my move and with trevor whitman i think he's added that like um wrinkle in his armor to with with destroying and i think he's improved one thing i always say about covington and people don't like this and like people say sometimes say hey you don't like him because of his personality i actually gave a [ __ ] about his personality but bar his fight against camaro usman and he brought it to him he's only ever fought people on the downturn of their career he thought or day he fought damien moye he fought tyron all those guys were on the downturn of their career he's only ever actually fought one person on the rise and he lost that fight so i just think that's an interesting facet uh about colby he is an amazing athlete man though oh definitely definitely no taking that away i just don't think he's of the same level as some of the guys that are there i think he's he's been very lucky but at the end of the day he's doing what he's had to do to get to where he is and that's that's all that matters sometimes i mean people said that about conor do you know what i mean when he was on their eyes that he had an easy run did he [ __ ] he just went in there made it look easy so i mean he knocked chad mendes there he knocked us emporia everyone's like oh he's he's on he's on an easy road right well when you just look at the guys you got holloway poirier and aldo edgar like mendes mendes he like he see he dude he rents people but people are like oh he's been given easy fights he wasn't so yeah but he was even taking one's in in the meantime because dennis ever just like you know keep himself busy but come here what does jordan williams offer you in uh comfort night did he just offer your buddy standing across the cage or you know do you see any threats that he offers no no no he's a guy look he he has the same ability as anybody that steps into that cage and he has that one punch where it can finish finish the fight and any person that steps in the dirty cage has that it's that one lucky shot and i feel like that is it he has that one lucky shot if he wants to grapple great amazing let's do it let's show the world how good i am with rapper and if he wants to strike good luck i don't care what he tries to do i'm going to dominate the fight from start to finish wherever the finish comes it it's it's just going to be another masterclass lads it's just going to be me doing me and no one will ever stop me doing that what kind of shorts are you coming out with you know that's the biggest question of all that i've tried i've tried trust me my missus like so uh let's here's the controversy is purple shorts on that and she's like no i'm gonna get back to them purple shorts that's what i want and she's like hmm if we can pick our bottles pick and choose and i'm like purple shorts that's my bottle choose it so i've decided i'm going to rock out with green the oil is short i honestly can't wait to see you coming with like with the just with like with the flag and everything man like just it's it's gonna be so surreal and you're gonna have to make sure you're getting the bleeding game as well shout out to ufc for that as well but you know once i finish once i finish the way i finish people it'll it'll be i actually think daniel cormier is randomly demand to get you in the a sports game he's like the ea sports guru you need a few more i'm not i'm not yeah i'm not looking to be in the game i want to stand there and be on the front cover you know what i mean yeah in purple shorts poster boy i'm a i'm a poster boy i'm i'm like i'm the new luke rockhold i'm the i'm the best looking fighter in the ufc now that's it that's actually gas barrier only said that the other day yeah yeah he goes goes igar is the new lou rockhold yeah i'm the new double 07. i [ __ ] said it ian in you know obviously we're going so like i would have asked you'd be like oh what you want to do for the rest of your career and all that sort of crap but the thing is really so you're going in you're going to finish this off and then when you come back on tell us what your plans are for 2022 yeah i'll put a b people who play golf when we bring it back on after talking about msg everything man we just can't wait to see performance i'll always be here to talk to you you know what i mean life's been busy life's been hectic yeah like i've just been non-stop like even even whatsapp's like even senior even the fact that i click onto the group what we have on whatsapp it's like yeah i barely have time to do that like it's fun i know [ __ ] flat out well look i appreciate you as always i mean from the day i came to your graph to hear like we're all we're all open open in the world we're all level that's all that matters and keep it up rumor has the best cup of tea you've ever had ah rumor has it rumor would probably be right mate i made it i made it that's why don't miss gary versus williams on ufc 268 on saturday november 6th don't change that around russ anything to say before wrap things up nah normally you know we do have a bit of a song and dance and you know we have people on we don't know as well but look ian you do you uh all the best at the farm look after yourself can't wait to watch a phone night i'll probably be talking before them anyway and oh look who it is i have something to say okay hey yeah okay thank you because i'm i'm hiding i'm going to show you behind this little wall so i don't distract his interview and i'm like shaking tears running down my face hearing you guys speak about that because it's you know what people don't know is that this [ __ ] hurts like you guys saying i'm not the bad guy i'm like oh my god someone actually went there they can actually like thank you we don't by the way we don't have to leave the scene if you don't want to leave to see him by the way no do it's fine i just i'm uh i read what's written do you know what i mean i'm real and i read what's written i hear what's written and it couldn't be more ludicrous the idea that i control this guy like the ego and i'm just very appreciative well first we didn't know you were there so like we were just saying what we saw and we were saying the way it was read but no look you guys are amazing i'm so delighted uh on your engagement and you know you didn't let that one slip so much going on no you guys are you guys are great and you seem happy and that's all that matters dude look [ __ ] that said and um on podcasts and on instagram dude it hurts like and it hurts like it's it's not nice but you know when people are bitter people say [ __ ] when they're when they're annoyed and when when [ __ ] doesn't go their way that's that's all people people yeah excuses we're learning to be stronger and yeah together at the end of the day giving another side to it i really appreciate it at the end of the day all i do is win and i will do a smile and that's all we want in life is to be happy and we're just going to keep that positive attitude love it guys and yeah you guys are commenting williams on ufc 268 on saturday november 6th russ lead is output thanks thank you there we go any more i guess is it henry so you have to change them to energize every single time i love it i love it take it away guys if you have enjoyed this podcast which i'm sure you have make sure to give it a like make sure to share it make sure to give in a comment say good luck subscribe and as always stay energy [Applause] you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i i saw so keep going keep up the good work guys