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Former UFC champion Belal Muhammad has questioned how friendly Ian Machado Garry was acting at UFC 330.

In the main event of UFC 330, Ian Machado Garry wasn’t quite able to get over the finish line and win the UFC welterweight championship. He fell to a defeat at the hands of Islam Makhachev, and while he did do some solid work, one of the big stories coming out of the fight was how friendly he was with Islam before, during and after the contest.

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It was seen as a strange move from Machado Garry, especially given how close the bout seemingly was heading into the fifth round when they embraced.

In a recent video, Belal Muhammad weighed in on Machado Garry’s approach.

Muhammad’s view on Machado Garry at UFC 330

“What’s with this hugging? You’re down in the fifth round. You’ve got to have the killer instinct,” Muhammad said on his YouTube channel. “You’ve got to for it. His face wasn’t beat up… you were losing. Mindset-wise, he needs to flip the switch. His mindset was we didn’t get tapped, we got up from a couple of takedowns, those are wins for him, and he has to change that. Stock-wise, he’s going to learn from it. He’s going to get better from it, but this game is unforgiving.

“You go against Morales next. You get one-punched and get knocked out. That head kick that Islam landed on you in the second round, if it knocked you out, it changes everything else. You can’t waste an opportunity. You can’t waste a moment, and I felt like he definitely wasted moments there. The one sequence that I was like Islam has this fight – obviously when it came to the fifth round, and he took the back, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s over.’ When he had the body triangle in, I knew he wasn’t going to get out of that situation. For Islam, that was his checkmate moment.”

Quotes via MMA Junkie

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