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Ian Garry and Neil Magny met on the main card of UFC 292, with Garry scoring a unanimous decision victory over Magny on that night.
Magny has since revealed that parts of Garry’s trash talking has affected a custody battle he went through at the time, but Garry says he exposed Magny for who he truly was.
“How do I turn the nice guy into the bad guy? I don’t believe I turned the nice guy into anything,” Machado Garry told MMA Fighting. “I think I exposed him for what he is. Neil said the words he said in that press conference. The words that I used as ammunition came out of his own mouth.
“His words were, ‘I’m a father, and I’ve been accustomed to giving out beatings, and I’m going to give Ian Garry the same beating.’ You don’t say something like that. I’ve just had a boy. I’m a father. I’m a protector now. I have a life that I need to look after and care for, for the rest of my existence.
“When I hear a grown man sit there and say he’s gotten accustomed to whooping that ass, or that kind of ass-whooping, and he’s got a 3-year-old at home, Neil you’ve just done yourself in. I’m absolutely going to sit there and hound you about that. Because it’s your words, your actions. I’m just putting them out there for the world in a different way.”
Garry is now moving onto UFC 296, where he faces Vicente Luque in the main card opener.
Some have criticized Garry for the fallout his trash talking has allegedly caused, but Garry says he hasn’t crossed any boundaries yet.
“I haven’t overstepped any boundaries yet when it comes to trash talk,” Machado Garry said. “If anything, I’ve been perfect. I’ve been perfectly underneath that line that you’re speaking about, and I don’t see any need to cross that right now until somebody else crosses it.
“Look, let’s put it this way — there was a line I could have crossed in the buildup to this fight [with Neil Magny], but I didn’t. I knew it, and I didn’t say it. I’m not going to get into it, but there’s a line there. Now to your point, there’s a line in trash talk, you go beyond it, and it’s not conceived the same way by people.
“I understand what you mean with the, ‘Your wife is in my DMs,’ the Conor thing with Dustin, I get that. Conor’s a very intelligent man, and the way he built up fights and the way he got people emotionally invested with building up a storyline was building up animosity that was there or wasn’t there.”
