Ian Garry believes he will be the man to bring the UFC back to Ireland for the first time since 2014.
The former Cage Warriors welterweight champion is currently making a name for himself in the UFC where he has easily won his first three fights.
Garry will look to stretch his perfect record to 11-0 when he takes on Song Kenan on the undercard of Jon Jones’ first fight in three years at UFC 285 on Saturday night.
After the Irish prospect has picked up a win on his fourth UFC pay-per-view card, he is confident of securing a spot on Conor McGregor’s undercard when he fights Michael Chandler later this year.
Garry told talkSPORT: “That’s the card I’m going to be on 100 per cent. There’s no way the UFC aren’t going to make that happen.
"Putting me and Conor on the same card is just obvious. You’ve got the biggest star the sport has ever seen coming back against somebody who is equally as loved by the fans in Chandler.
“It would be a massive, massive platform for me to go out there and put somebody to sleep and just keep proving what I already know to the fans.”
‘Notorious’ has talked about fighting at Croke Park in Dublin for years and has recently been helping Katie Taylor try to make a fight at the 80,000-seater stadium.
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However, Garry doubts the UFC will allow McGregor to fulfill his Irish stadium dream because their business model relies on marketing pay-per-view shows to an American audience.
He added: “As much as I would love it, I don’t believe they are ever going to do Croke Park, Aviva Stadium, or anything of the likes purely for the fact of timing.
“It would have to start so early in the day and they really market it for Americans specifically. I don’t believe it will happen. I’d love it to happen.
“I could see it happening at the Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium or maybe in Las Vegas at the Raiders stadium. I could see it being somewhere like that, that’s a bigger and better stage for Conor.”
The 25-year-old says he’ll be the man to bring the UFC back to Ireland for the first time since McGregor knocked out Diego Brandao at the 3Arena in July 2014.
Garry concluded: “I’m going to bring the UFC back to Dublin. I’ll do that! Don’t worry, that’s happening. I’ll bring them back at the end of this year or the start of next. They are coming back!”
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