“You have his last name and your ex-husband lives with you.” What happens to the “new Conor” and his wife?

Ian Harry is the next “new Conor McGregor.” They are both Irish and come from the Cage Warriors promotion, but if Notorious has always had a balance between love and hate, then his compatriot is still far from that level, and much of what happens around Harry is described as “weird.” ”.

Ian has never lost in the UFC or professional MMA in general. The Irishman has six victories in the world’s main promotion, and in his last fight he faced veteran Neil Magny, who became a direct ticket to the top 10 of the welterweight rankings. However, Harry’s behavior raised many questions. He behaved too defiantly at the press conference, showed obscene gestures to the opponent between rounds, and all this was in stark contrast to the image he had of him in his first fights in the UFC. But, apparently, behind such a drastic change is the Irishman’s wife, Leila Anna-Lee.

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She is a fairly successful sports journalist, 14 years older than Harry and knows very well how to promote herself in the media. But for now this is pretty negative for Ian. For example, he is ridiculed for taking his wife’s maiden name, so the correct name is Ian Machado Harry and his wife’s name is Leila Machado Harry. There were rumors that Machado was the last name of Leila’s ex-husband, but this information was later denied. However, there is another story. The journalist’s ex-husband now works as Ian’s nutritionist, and there were even reports that she lives with the couple in the same house.

Last year, Harry told an extremely strange story related to his wife: “I will tell the story of Khamzat Chimaev. My wife and I entered the elevator and Chimaev immediately appeared with his lady. She wanted to fight him right there, right in the elevator car. It would be a great story. My wife looked at me indicating with her eyes that I should fight him, but a fighter on my team had to fight him the next day, it couldn’t be ruined. And when we got out of the elevator, my wife called me weak.”

By this time, Chimaev was already a star, so his wife simply wanted Harry to increase his recognition through the conflict. The goal seems clear, but the method is absolutely strange. There is a high probability that this will end very badly for the Irishman.

However, this is not the only story about Leila. Not long ago, information appeared in foreign media that at some point the journalist wrote the book How to be a WAG. The term WAG is typically used to refer to the girlfriends and wives of popular athletes. The book is essentially a guide to action. Ian himself initially claimed that this was all a joke and that no such book existed, which, of course, was not true.

And everything would have been fine, but all these stories caught the attention of UFC truth boss Sean Strickland, who, without much ceremony, spoke about it publicly: “I never talk about anyone’s spouse, but this is all wrong. Ian Harry, I remember meeting you and this girl in New York, and even then I thought something was wrong with her. The way she walks, the way she talks and behaves… Now I know that you are 26 and she is 40. Her ex-husband lives with you, you took his last name and she wrote a book about becoming the wife of a promising young athlete. . This is bad, man. She is a succubus (a demon of depravity disguised as a woman. – Note from “Championship”). You need to run! There are as many pretty girls as you want, we will give you two ring girls at a time. I support you, the MMA community supports you. Do it right, Ian.”

Harry did not engage in a public confrontation, but addressed Strickland: “If you continue to spread these lies, I will charge you with harassment and defamation. You should remove these statements. Sean, what you are doing is spreading hate, lies and harassment. I warned you”.

Sean responded by mocking that too: “That bastard said he would sue me if I didn’t take this down! Are you going to sue me? He said he was lying. You are 26 and she is 40. Leila wrote a book about being older and living with a young athlete. I’m not lying, brother, it’s the truth. Ian Harry, I don’t care if you want to sue me, get in line. Learn to be a man. Were you born without eggs or did your wife take them from you? Shameful coward. He would respect you more if you threatened violence instead.”

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Harry stopped responding to this and remained silent. So far, the Irishman is not succeeding in his efforts to imitate Conor, but, on the contrary, he is becoming the butt of jokes and at the same time one of the most hated fighters in the promotion. Parallel to all the stories related to his wife, there was also confirmed information that Ian was no longer allowed to enter the gym where Leon Edwards trained. The champion himself explained that the Irishman always arrives late, walks everywhere with cameras and pointed out that this is not the first gym that Harry has been expelled from.

It seems that there is a certain flaw in Ian’s plan to become a star and it is time for him to do something so as not to remain in history as a person who simply lived with his wife’s ex-husband in the same house, was afraid of Fighting with Chimaev in the elevator and took his wife’s last name.