Ian Garry made the move to train in South Florida with some of the best MMA fighters in the world. That includes current UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman.
Ian Garry had the opportunity to work directly with Kamaru Usman and he was surprised by how different things were. The UFC welterweight champion was very different inside the gym.
“I was kind of shocked because of his size,” Garry said on The MMA Hour. “He’s not anywhere near as big as he looks on TV, because he looks jacked when he’s on the camera. But I was speaking to the guys, and they were saying he’s not the best striker, he’s not the best wrestler, he’s not the best at jiu-jitsu, but he’s the best at mixing it up. And they were saying, ‘He’ll get beat up in wrestling, he’ll get beat up in grappling, he’ll get beat up in kickboxing, but when it comes to MMA, he’s the best.’ And we’ve seen that in his fights. I think he’s on a 15-fight win streak in the UFC, which is insane.
“It was obviously a pleasure to share the cage. He was explaining a couple things I can do better. We were doing kickboxing drills, so we kind of swap and change between everyone. [Coach] Henry [Hooft] likes us to feel kicks on the arms, kicks on the legs, block kicks to the head, just little things, redirect kicks and move energy and come back and refire. I think we’ve done two rounds together and it was really cool.”
Kamaru Usman is considered one of the greatest champions in UFC history and he's starting to build quite the resume. Ian Garry has been learning a lot from him leading up to his fight at UFC 273.
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