Joaquin Buckley thinks Ian Garry’s spouse is simply as a lot part of the UFC as her husband is.
Whereas Garry has had an extremely profitable run contained in the Octagon so far, incomes wins over Neil Magny, Geoff Neal, Michael ‘Venom’ Web page, and Carlos Prates, a lot of the eye has been positioned on Garry’s marriage to TV persona Layla Anna-Lee.
After it was found that Anna-Lee had authored a brief e-book titled Learn how to Be a WAG, rumors began to fly that Garry was nothing greater than a 3rd wheel in a throuple that also concerned Anna-Lee’s ex-husband Richard Cullen. Including gas to the hearth was the revelation that Cullen really lives with Garry and Anna-Lee, and works as the previous’s nutritionist.
Everybody from Colby Covington to Sean Strickland took the bait, dubbing Garry a “cuck” and slamming the pair’s unconventional dwelling state of affairs in interviews and on social media.
Not too long ago, Joaquin Buckley discovered himself caught up in all of the drama between Garry and his child mama after he tried to confront the Irishman throughout the UFC Kansas Metropolis weigh-ins in April.
“Y’all know I needed to pull up on Ian Garry on the weigh-in, speaking all that mess in his little interview,” Buckley advised Parry Punch. “So, I wait until he will get achieved—I’m ready, affected person. As quickly as I pull up, growth, she bumps proper into me. She going to make use of the infant as a defend, go him off to him, so I’m like, ‘Alright, I’ll let you’ve got that one.’
“However as quickly as I’m about to show round, she comes over to me, caresses my arm, and says, ‘I’mma goodbye on tonight.’ Lady, what the f*ck that imply? I’m attempting to see him, not you!”
In contrast to Covington and Strickland, Buckley by no means meant to carry Garry’s spouse into their budding rivalry, however when Anna-Lee seemingly goes out of her method to be a part of the present, there’s going to be some collateral injury.
“No, it wasn’t intentional to mess with this woman or nothing like that, however I seen all of the feedback that individuals making,” Buckley continued. “I’m stunned that video went as viral because it did. Lots of people felt prefer it was disrespectful, lots of people felt prefer it was imply. I’m like, look—lots of people say preserve the household out of it, however if you let your loved ones be part of the enterprise, they part of the enterprise.
She is simply as a lot part of the MMA enterprise and the UFC as Ian Garry, bro. If you see Ian Garry, you see her—nearly like his supervisor, precisely proper.”
Joaquin Buckley thinks Garry’s extra excessive antics had been the brain-child of Layla Anna-Lee
Garry and his spouse additionally attracted detrimental consideration forward of a struggle in opposition to Geoff Neal that was scheduled to go down in August 2023. Within the lead-up to their showdown, Garry put Neal’s mugshot from a 2021 arrest for DWI and meant to promote them.
That alone was going too far within the eyes of many, however after Neal pulled out of the struggle and was changed with Neil Magny, Garry accused ‘Handz of Metal’ of bodily abusing his children, figuring out full effectively that Magny was in the midst of a custody battle along with his estranged spouse.
Garry’s feedback resulted in a flood of headlines on social media, which had been then utilized by opposing attorneys to try to painting Magny as a hazard to his personal kids in courtroom.
Buckley believes all of it was Anna-Lee’s doing.
“Don’t get it twisted—quite a lot of selections that he make is predicated off his woman, proper? And also you seen with the pictures of Geoff Neal, proper, placing him on a shirt, placing his mug shot on the market, speaking in regards to the future,” Buckley stated. “You see the conversations that she was like, ‘Oh, it’s horrible, he whoops his child,’ used to carry that up, babe, proper?
“So, he brings that up, and now Neal Magny had misplaced custody—I heard, not less than—of his children as a consequence of that entire process that they had throughout their press convention. So, they not harmless. It’s (expletive) if that occurred to Neal, you already know what I’m saying? They not harmless. They achieved triggered quite a lot of injury.”
Luckily, Neal by no means misplaced custody of his children as a consequence of Garry and Anna-Lee’s ill-advised accusations. As a substitute, he was granted 50-50 custody. Nonetheless, Neal described the separation and custody battle as one of the crucial troublesome issues he’s confronted, made all of the extra irritating by Garry’s ignorant feedback.
Buckley made it clear that he has nothing in opposition to Anna-Lee, even going as far as to say she’s a pleasant particular person. With that stated, ‘New Mansa’ acknowledges that whereas Ian Garry is the star of the present, she’s the one pulling the strings.
“She’s good, she appears good—there you go,” Buckley stated. “I’m not going to be disrespectful when it come to stuff like that. I’m going to maintain it a buck—like, that’s simply her nature, that’s who she is. She been part of this enterprise proper earlier than she even bought with Ian Garry. Even the smile, proper? She know to maintain the smile on her face although she upset at me, she know she don’t like my ass, proper? She know to maintain that smile as a result of there’s cameras at all times watching. Media skilled, media skilled, media skilled—thanks. She know what she doing; she part of the biz.
“Something that woman do ain’t accidentally, I promise you. Even when it was an accident, it (expletive) bought all of them numbers, so I assume that’s the best way to have a look at it.”
