“Looks like this guy doesn’t believe in me🧐” Yaroslav Amosov wrote on X on Sunday, one day after the UFC booked him against Ian Machado Garry.
The post he was quoting came from Turkish journalist Kerem Akbilek, who reshared an interview clip from a year ago. According to Akbilek’s post, he had asked Garry about Amosov arriving in the UFC, and Garry said he didn’t know who Amosov was and that fighters coming over from Bellator had failed. Akbilek added that his one wish was for the UFC to use his question in the fight’s promo. Honestly, if I were cutting the trailer, I’d use it too.
The matchup is real now. Championship Rounds reported that the UFC announced Israel Adesanya vs. Sharabutdin Magomedov as the main event of its Saudi Arabia card, with Garry vs. Amosov as the co-main, and the account later noted the UFC broadcast billed Garry vs. Amosov at five rounds. Knockout Daily’s Cagefile data lists the card as UFC Fight Night 295 on Dec. 5. Not everyone liked the billing order. MMA account @DovySimuMMA posted that Garry vs. Amosov should be headlining.
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Yahoo Sports framed both Adesanya and Garry as entering must-win territory, and the context backs that up.
Garry, a former Cage Warriors welterweight champion and a judo black belt, sat at No. 2 in the UFC welterweight rankings as of June 20, per Wikipedia. His lone MMA loss came in a five-round title eliminator against Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310 in December 2024, a unanimous decision. He rebounded with a decision win over Carlos Prates in an April 2025 main event. A No. 2 who loses a co-main to a guy he once claimed he’d never heard of gets pushed to the back of the line, and the welterweight line is long.
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Adesanya’s slide is steeper. The former two-time middleweight champion is 24-6 and sits at No. 12 in Knockout Daily’s middleweight rankings. Wikipedia lists him at No. 10 in Meta’s rankings as of Oct. 24. He last fought March 28. Magomedov is the kind of opponent who can either hand a former champ a clean rebuilding win or end the conversation about another title run entirely.
For Garry, the five-round distance matters. Twenty-five minutes is a long time to defend a takedown, and Amosov just told everyone he plans to make Garry remember his name. Dec. 5, Riyadh.
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