Garry Done At Kill Cliff? ‘Everybody Has My Back’

It sounds like the teammate vs. teammate fight between Ian Garry and Vicente Luque has resulted in Garry being pushed out of the renowned fight camp.

Ian Garry is set to face fellow Kill Cliff FC member Vicente Luque at UFC 296, and the fallout from that booking may wreck what was a good thing for “The Future” out in Florida.

Garry was recently kicked out of Team Renegade in the UK, reportedly on the orders of UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards. He’s also been forced to organize his camp for December 16th outside of Kill Cliff because that’s where Luque is training.

According to Luque, Garry may not come back due to some relatively mild social media comments leading up to their fight.

“There is certain things that we find disrespectful,” Luque told Middle Easy in a new interview. “I’m sure that a lot of guys did not appreciate the comment he did in my Instagram, I myself, I did feel that’s a disrespect. I’m not gonna take it personally, but I did feel like, hey, I was doing something that was really important for me. I posted about it and he chose to make fun or whatever out of it, you know?”

“I’m sure that many guys look at that and say hey, he was a teammate from us and now he’s fighting against one of us, and now he just decides to change his attitude. So, I think that bothers a lot of people. But with that said, I don’t know, maybe at the end when everything’s said and done, he can work a way to go back into the team and train.”

Comments from other Kill Cliff members have pointed towards Garry being on the outs, and Luque confirmed it.

“With time, if Ian wants to get back to the team, eventually maybe,” Luque said. “Maybe he can get back. But right now, I’m the guy on the team, so everybody has my back. I really appreciate that. It’s good to be part of a time like Kill Cliff like I’ve been for so long. We’ve had different names in all these years, but still the same crew. To have all these guys supporting me, it’s really positive.”

Garry has delighted in generating negative attention for his opponents to deal with in past fights. But this time it’s Ian that’s getting roasted from all sides after a segment of the fan population has turned against him. Vicente Luque says that’s ‘live by the sword, die by the sword’ stuff.

“I know that Ian is a guy that is really, you know, he’s outspoken. He speaks about people,” Luque said. “The whole Neil Magny thing went to another level, you know, to another proportion. So at the same time, I’m like, okay, when you talk, you gotta be willing to listen as well, you know? I feel like that’s going on a little bit. He created a lot of hate towards Neil Magny, and now maybe he’s getting a lot of hate towards him.”

This situation right here is why so many fighters don’t like getting booked against guys in their own gym. Lines get drawn and crossed, feelings get hurt over the smallest provocation. And then one of the fighters finds out their gym isn’t really their gym any more. Will all this negatively affect Garry at UFC 296? It’d be hard for it not to, but we’ll find out how much on fight night.