Ian Machado Garry’s wife Layla has put out a message thanking Carlos Prates for defending her honor after a fan encouraged him to insult her.
Garry and his wife are regularly the focus of online haters and trolls who push all sorts of conspiracy theories about Layla sleeping around and ‘cucking’ Ian. One fan brought this up to Prates during a Q&A session at UFC 325, teeing “The Nightmare” up to mock Garry.
“How many times do you reckon you’ve f—ked Ian Garry’s wife?” they asked.
After hearing the translation, Prates shut the fan down.
“Where I come from, you can’t say bad things about somebody’s wife, they can literally kill you if you say something about the family,” he said. “We are big rivals inside the cage, but outside of the cage, we have respect for each other.”
That evoked a response from Layla Garry, who took to Instagram to thank Prates for defending her.
“Thank you Carlos, this means the world to us,” she wrote. “To stand on stage encouraged to humiliate and abuse, knowing the crowd may laugh and boost your ego but choosing to be moral and conscious and right. I respect that so so much.”
“This type of answer should be normal. Should be basic standard but sadly in MMA it’s not so I thank you for setting a better standard and protecting me in this moment. Your voice is more powerful than you can imagine.”
Prates and Garry fought back in April 2025 with Garry snapping Prates’ UFC unbeaten streak. “The Future” wasn’t particularly kind to Prates leading up to the fight, dubbing Carlos a ‘quitter.’ It’s that kind of behavior that’s led some fans (and fighters) to decide they can go as low as they’d like when it comes to Ian.
When Shavkat Rakhmonov revealed yet another knee injury that would keep him out of the cage for nearly a year, Garry didn’t ‘set a better standard’ and wish for his former opponent’s quick recovery. Instead, Garry posted a video of him hitting Shavkat with an oblique kick with the caption ‘Ian destroyed Shavkat’s career.’ “He was eliminated at our title eliminator,” Garry added.
We’re not ones to approve of any rudeness thrown towards UFC fighters’ families, but Garry is perfectly happy to roll around in the muck when it’s to his advantage, digging up his opponent’s mugshots and mentioning their kids. Casual disrespect begets casual disrespect right back.
