Tony Ferguson och Khabib Nurmagomedov möts i april i Brooklyn på UFC 223 men det är högst oklart om matchen är om den odiskutabla titeln, eller interim-titeln. Det är fjärde gången de försökt genomföra matchen och båda fighters har dragit sig ur tidigare.
Under måndagens The MMA Hour hade Ferguson några väl valda ord inför matchen mot Nurmagomedov.
”I get hit for a certain reason, I want people to use their energy against me. But for Khabib, that b*tch is not going to touch me,” sa Ferguson i måndags på The MMA Hour. “Not one time. I’m going to dance circles around this kid. I’m going to be hitting him with some nasty f*cking uppercuts that are going to make him think twice about shooting in on me.”
”Jag är en mexikan med vassa armbågar”
Vidare säger Ferguson att Nurmagomedov aldrig har börjat blöda under en match, något han planerar att ändra på.
“Have you ever seen Khabib cut in a fight? I don’t think so. I’m Mexican and I’ve got some f*cking sharp ass blades on my elbows, so that b*tch better think twice about f*cking showing his face in front of me, especially inside that cage. Get in my face, dude, I’ll hit you with my knee. I’m going to leave you f*cking bloody.”
Ferguson är väldigt självsäker då han anser att deras gemensamma vinster – Edson Barboza, Gleison Tibau, Rafael dos Anjos och Abel Trujillo, har Ferguson själv avslutat på ett mycket mer imponerande sätt.
Look at the hard time that he had beating Gleison Tibau, who just performed this weekend (at UFC 220) and just got knocked out.
“I finished Tibau in the first round via submission. Khabib had to go all the rounds and he couldn’t take [Tibau] down. Now this might’ve been pre-USADA or whatever, but I’m talking techniques, man. He looked f*cking sloppy. And he looked so beat that he lost that fight, and that is the one fight that he lost in the UFC. So all you fans, go back and watch Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Gleison Tibau and watch Tony Ferguson vs. Gleison Tibau, and you tell me the f*cking difference, who the champ is.”
“He had a decent performance but he didn’t leave any blood on him. And I finished Edson in the second round, all due respect to Edson; he’s a hell of a fighter. But [Nurmagomedov] had a hell of a time trying to take him down. It took me one time, got it done and moved on from there.”
För att höra vad mer Tony Ferguson hade att säga kan du se hela intervjun nedan.
https://youtu.be/MVztyR3flwI
