“When it comes to confidence, you have to be able to tell the world what you’re going to do and do it,” explains Machado Garry. “If that doesn’t work, there’s a lack of self-confidence. If I sit here and say, “I’m going to fight To make something possible, self-confidence is not a question. You go out there, you talk about it, you say, ‘I’m going to do this.’ Like, I’m fighting the scariest man in the division on December 7th. Everyone rejects him. 18-0, 18 completions. That excites me. That doesn’t scare me, that excites me. Everyone in the world thinks this guy is the bogeyman of the division. I’m going to go out there on December 7th and shock everyone else’s world because in my world I’m going to beat him.”

To be honest, the 27-year-old Dubliner could face the entire heavyweight top 10 on the same night and feel the same way, but that’s just how he’s built and his confidence is similar to that of most fighters. The only difference is that he tells the world exactly how he feels. This honesty is rare.

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“I believe that there are people on this earth who have just been given talents, that God has given them talents and abundance, and I believe that I am one of them,” he said. “I believe that I am different. I believe I am talented beyond my own imagination and it is up to me to go out there, find it within myself and show it to the world.”