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Jack Della Maddalena’s coach is not amused by Ian Machado Garry’s attempts to goad his fighter.
Machado Garry (16-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) called Della Maddalena’s title-winning performance over Belal Muhammad in Saturday’s UFC 315 main event “sloppy” and is confident he’d outbox the new champ. During fight week in Montreal, official backup Machado Garry also got his son to give Della Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) a pack of M&M’s as a joke to distract him from his weight cut.
Ben Vickers, Della Maddalena’s head coach, fired back at Machado Garry.
“We’re not in this business to be celebrities, and Jack said in his post-fight speech, we just want to win fights and be the best,” Vickers told Submission Radio. “Jack loves scrapping. Jack loves training. We all love the sport and the process. He can carry on doing his thing. He should concentrate more on finishing fights, especially fights that he’s dominating.
“He needs to stop flying around the world trying to be a celebrity, and get in the gym and get some power and figure out how to finish fights. His time would be better spent doing that than trying to wind Jack up. You think Jack’s going to bite on any of that stuff? He doesn’t care, man. He’s the most chilled-out dude in the world. So, yeah, it’s all just a bit silly really. … I don’t think Ian Garry will ever own one of these (UFC title) answer to your question.”
If Della Maddalena and Machado Garry were to ever fight, Vickers thinks the Irish fighter would avoid engaging in the striking.
“I think Carlos Prates showed that as soon as you put the pressure on Ian, he doesn’t like it,” Vickers said. “So, it looks like Jack getting in his face and throwing bombs, and I think he’ll be running around the cage trying to throw push kicks. That’s how I see that fight going down.”
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