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‘Pi**ed Off’ Ian Garry Changes Course After Legal Threats at Sean Strickland, Wants to Settle Beef at Middleweight

Published 11/30/2023, 11:16 PM EST

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Ian Garry and Sean Strickland‘s beef is far from over.  Garry has just dropped a fresh new video and in it, he has nothing but a warning for the middleweight champion. Will Garry move his weight divisions just to settle a beef with ‘Tarzan’?

Strickland may as well have been the start of the conflict. The middleweight champ sent down a tweet about Garry’s partner that did not land very softly with the young fighter. Soon, a threat to take legal action followed from Garry’s side but it looks like it hasn’t been enough.

Ian Garry wants to take it to the cage with Sean Strickland

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Garry was not happy with the opinion of his partner that Strickland put out. Accusing her of being a “succubus” was probably not something Garry would appreciate. Initially, he sent out a DM to Strickland asking him to take the posts down but of course it backfired when the champion straight out refused. In fact, Strickland doubled his efforts by challenging Garry’s ego. Now, he has an answer.

“The more people talk, the harder I work,” said Garry. “I’ve got more people to prove wrong. It’s not fueling me. It’s p*ssing me off. Now we’ve got, I might have to win a middleweight world title before I win the welterweight.” The video was short and the message, as direct as it could get. Do you think a fight between the two is imminent?

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Garry is currently facing his next challenge from Vincente Luque. The two will go head to head in a matchup at UFC 296 in the same arena as Leon Edwards and Colby Covington. So two welterweight bouts will take place within the same pay-per-view on December the 17th.

Does it make sense for Garry to go over to middleweight now? It would certainly interrupt his run towards fighting whoever will be the champion after the Edwards fight. The shift in attention has come quickly after the beef. But what’s the beef all about? Here’s what.

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Why are ‘Tarzan’ and Garry beefing?

Sean Strickland got into the spat by merely being, Sean Strickland. He made a comment about Garry’s partner who had written a controversial book about being a wife and girlfriend to athletes. This set the whole thing off with Garry texting Strickland and now planning to fight him.

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“Ian Garry’s wife is a SE*UAL PREDATOR……. She sought out a young athlete to seduce because she’s getting old and still wanted to be famous.. No buddy of fame wanted you so you preyed on a kid… You are and will forever be known as a succubus…” Strickland said about Garry’s wife on his X account. Clearly not a neutral message of friendship and harmony. It quickly got a lot of hate from Garry and now, perhaps the fighter will come at Strickland’s belt. Will he ever get close to it?

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Prit Chauhan

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I'm Prit Chauhan, and I'm a UFC writer at EssentiallySports. I've been in the writing business for three years, covering areas like mass media marketing, and even tried my hand at fiction. My experience includes research work at the University of California, Berkeley, which helps me spin fact-based stories about the world of Mixed Martial Arts effortlessly.
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