Conor McGregor’s message to Ian Garry got lost in the aftermath of UFC 310.
The former dual-weight UFC champion’s Irish compatriot took the biggest fight of his life on short notice, but Ian Garry still performed admirably against 19-0 contender Shavkat Rakhmanov in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Ultimately, ‘The Future’ fell just short as all three judges scored the fight 48-47 in favor of Rakhmonov.
Conor McGregor tried to lift the spirits of Garry with a post-flight message after his UFC 310 defeat.
Conor McGregor tweets and deletes message to Ian Garry
As soon as Garry’s first career loss was confirmed by Bruce Buffer, McGregor took to X – formerly known as Twitter – with an uplifting message for the man he inspired to take up mixed martial arts.
“Very good fight! Well done Ian, future is right,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
Unfortunately, McGregor’s kind message to Garry went unnoticed due to what he did next.
The 36-year-old shared a voice note reacting to welterweight champion Belal Muhammad getting in the Octagon for a face-off with Rakhmonov, who had just set himself up for a UFC title shot in 2025.
Joe Rogan pointed out that Muhammad had some trouble making it out of the crowd because UFC security was unaware that he was a fighter. McGregor found the 170lb king’s struggle absolutely hilarious.
“The security doesn’t know he’s the champ, look at the state of this c***. The security doesn’t know he’s the champ? I’m not surprised motherf***er, he is an a**hole that thing,” McGregor said.
“Shut your mouth you little dope, you barely got into the ring, they don’t even know you were the champ you thick. ‘Who the f*** is that guy’ the security said. Ah stop man, two a*** wipes, yeah.”
“2 bums,” he captioned the voice note that has gone viral despite being deleted from McGregor’s page.
Ian Garry believes he did enough to win at UFC 310
Garry was positive about his fighting future after suffering the first defeat of his 16-bout career.
The 27-year-old, who made UFC history by changing his shorts mid-fight, believes he did enough to beat Rakhmonov.
“I’m humble in victory and in defeat and always have been, and I do not feel like I lost today, my hand might not have been raised but I came out and I fought a giant, I came out and I fought the boogeyman and I showed that he’s f***ing human,” Garry said during his post-fight press conference.
“I went out there on three weeks’ notice and I saved this event, I saved this card against the scariest man in the division and I went out there and I stopped almost everything… I showed that I can hang with the single best in the division and I proved tonight that I can absolutely be a champion.
“He won by opinion, and that’s ok, I can live with that and I’m very happy with my performance tonight.”