Ian Machado Garry-Amosov booking turns a grudge into a five-round style test

Ian Machado Garry now has to settle his old assessment of Yaroslav Amosov inside the cage.

The UFC has booked the welterweights for five rounds at UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Magomedov on Dec. 5 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Garry enters as the division’s No. 1 contender; Amosov is ranked No. 11 after submitting each of his first two UFC opponents.

Bloody Elbow resurfaced Garry’s comments from November 2025, when he dismissed Amosov’s prospects against the UFC’s leading welterweights and said Amosov would get “smashed” against him. The rhetoric supplies the promotion, but the booking matters more than the grudge: Amosov is moving from three total UFC rounds into a five-round assignment against a fighter who has completed three consecutive bouts scheduled for five.

That experience gap changes how bettors should interpret the early numbers. Amosov has looked destructive, but his UFC rates come from only two fights. Garry’s profile rests on 12 archived bouts and 38 rounds.

Garry’s recent game is built to survive long fights

Garry’s last five bouts all reached the scorecards. He beat Michael Page over three rounds, lost five-round decisions to Shavkat Rakhmonov and Islam Makhachev, and won decisions over Carlos Prates and Belal Muhammad. Across 12 archived appearances, he is 10-2 with seven decision wins, three knockouts and no submission victories. He has never been finished in that sample.

That record does not make the fight automatically likely to reach the final horn. It does establish Garry’s preferred winning mechanism: manage range, accumulate enough clean offense and avoid the decisive exchange. He lands 4.29 significant strikes per minute while absorbing 2.59, with 53 percent accuracy. His 804 significant strikes across 38 recorded rounds include 444 to the head, 164 to the body and 196 to the legs.