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Ian Garry<\/strong>, soon to be the #15 ranked welterweight, isn’t rushing his way to the top … “The Future” tells us he has a plan laid out, and it starts with fighting a guy he believes is the gatekeeper to the top 10!<\/p>\n 25-year-old Garry defeated Daniel Rodriguez<\/strong> inside 3 minutes (it’s the first time D-Rod’s been finished with strikes) on UFC on ABC 4 … and joined Babcock<\/strong> on the “TMZ Sports”<\/strong> <\/strong><\/em>TV show<\/strong> (airs weekdays on FS1<\/strong>) where he talked about his next moves.<\/p>\n “Yeah, [Neil Magny is] still the guy I want for so many reasons,” Garry said. “I believe that everybody knows who Magny is. Everybody knows how game a fighter Magny is.”<\/p>\n Garry admits Magny<\/strong> (27-10) may not have the best record … but he’s a guy who can expose you if you aren’t prepared.<\/p>\n “If there’s a guy in the division before you enter that top 10 that you wanna test yourself against and see if you’re legit, it’s Neil Magny.”<\/p>\n As it stands, “The Future” is a perfect 12-0 … in a sport where unbeaten records are a rarity. And, the zero is something that Ian says means a lot to him.<\/p>\n “To be able to sit there and say no one ever cracked the code, to be able to sit there and say no one was able to decipher the game that I bring to the table, absolutely. 100%,” he said.<\/p>\n Despite the immense success so early in his career, Garry isn’t resting on his laurels. In fact, he says he’s planned a trip to Brazil where he’ll work on jiujitsu … as well as a voyage all the way to New Zealand, where he’s going to train with middleweight champ Israel Adesanya<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Don’t tell me that if I’m training with Adesanya, that I can’t pick up one or two little details that are gonna help elevate my game,” Garry said.<\/p>\n “Traveling and learning and growing and becoming better is inevitably more important to me right now than hunting for the title right now, because when I decide to make that title run, I’m gonna succeed and nobody’s gonna be able to take me off that.”<\/p>\n![\"Ian](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/c7\/4by3\/2023\/05\/15\/c759619edf8f4f28b2ea4826cc28cda0_md.png\")
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