Undefeated UFC welterweight Ian Garry (13-0) is slated to take on eighth-ranked Vicente Luque (22-9-1) on the UFC 296 main card on Dec. 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. It will be Garry’s fourth fight of the year.
Garry is coming off an unanimous win over Neil Magny at UFC 292 in August. Luque will enter the octagon coming off a decision win over Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC Vegas 78 a week earlier in August.
“It’s awesome. I am excited to be back in a fight camp again. We know that this is the fourth fight that I’ll be taking part in this year. Consistently rolling in. We’re rollin out, climbing the ladder, and I’m doing everything that I said I would do,” Garry told the Energized Show.
“It’s awesome. It’s been absolutely awesome from start to now. My career has just been to the moon, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon, but being able to be surrounded by such amazing people and have a team around me that loves the journey the way that I do and are excited by the little things like that. That pre-fight workout in Boston, that was nuts. Curtis, my cameraman, went there an hour before and was like, ‘this is ridiculous. There’s too many people there, nobody’s going to be able to get in.’…
