This weekend, Ian Machado Garry will battle former UFC champion Belal Muhammad at UFC Qatar. If he's able to pick up the win, and do so convincingly, he could well put himself in position for a shot at the current king Islam Makhachev.

"They're kind of irrelevant in my mind to a certain extent because the guys that won should be above me now," Machado Garry told MMA Junkie on the UFC welterweight rankings. "I understand that. Prates being above me, silly, but I understand it. He did knock out whatever Leon (Edwards) was in the world, No. 4, whatever it was, and Morales did knock out No. 2 in the world, so they should be there.

This weekend, Ian Machado Garry will battle former UFC champion Belal Muhammad at UFC Qatar. If he's able to pick up the win, and do so convincingly, he could well put himself in position for a shot at the current king Islam Makhachev.

"They're kind of irrelevant in my mind to a certain extent because the guys that won should be above me now," Machado Garry told MMA Junkie on the UFC welterweight rankings. "I understand that. Prates being above me, silly, but I understand it. He did knock out whatever Leon (Edwards) was in the world, No. 4, whatever it was, and Morales did knock out No. 2 in the world, so they should be there.