Dana White doubles down on Ian Machado Garry criticsm
Dana White stays emphatic on his Ian Machado Garry stance after his UFC 330 loss to Islam Makhachev.
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You know, you get this opportunity.
You've worked your whole life to get there, and you come out in the fifth round after you do all this great work, which I thought he I literally said to Hunter, where I, I W-when the first round started, Islam had him up against the fence and was holding onto him and trying to I said, "If this is the game plan for five fucking rounds, Islam's gonna be in big trouble in the fifth round, in my opinion."
And I thought that Ian Gary did good work leading up to the fifth round, and, and I'm assuming that was the game plan, and you wanna come out and start hugging and shaking hands and, you know.
Tell him how fucking great he is when they're putting the belt on you.
It's just you, you, you He might never have that opportunity again, and, and probably will never get the opportunity at Islam again, who is gonna go down as, you know, one of the all-time greats, if not the greatest, by the time he's done.
So you have five fucking minutes.
Every second of that round counts.
Don't waste 10 seconds telling this guy you fucking love him.
Well, you either have it or you don't, in my opinion, or you made the mistake one time and you won't do it again.
You know, we'll, we'll, we'll see how it plays out.
And again, I'm not shitting on Ian.
I mean, he's a classy guy.
He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, but be a fucking nice guy when that five minutes is up.
You can be as nice and as classy as, you know You have five minutes to try to fucking finish one of the greatest of all time and have that belt wrapped around your waist, and from then on, you can tell Islam you love him and how great he is, and you can shake his hand and hug him and take pictures with him or whatever you wanna do.
You have five fucking minutes to win.
That was my point.
