Forne UFC-mellanviktsmästaren Michael Bisping väljer att försvara Khabib Nurmagomedovs record (29-0) efter att detta attackerats av topplättviktaren Tony Ferguson.
Anser att Fergusons kritik saknar logik
Den forne interimmästaren i lättvikt Ferguson (25-5) har hävdat på sociala medier att Nurmagomedovs record är dopat med matcher som inte borde ses som professionella:
Ahhh Khabieber’s (Khabib’s) record… facts: more than half of fatheads professional fights were only two round sanctioned bouts. All before UFC. To be professional fights in most leagues, there must be three sanctioned rounds to be considered professional. Fights (sic) leagues such [as] UFC & farm league. The three by two round TUF (The Ultimate Fighter) fights should count on my record if that’s the case. Give me three more knockouts & victories on my record.
Frispråkige Bisping väljer nu att svara på Fergusons kritik och försvara ryssens karriärfacit och sade följande enligt BJPenn.com i hans podcast Believe You Me:
Just look up the record — the professional boxing record of — I dunno, I dunno what it’s like, Floyd Mayweather. Let’s go with that, okay. He’s considered the best ever, like Khabib (Nurmagomedov’s) considered the best ever, so compare his. ‘Cause I guarantee, it’s like you, Luis (J. Gomez) when you started doing comedy, you were doing it in some sh*thole, or some basement, or some kitchen, or maybe some cafe like on New Year’s Eve or whatever it was you were.
The point I’m making is, you build, you build to that (level). When I started in the UFC — or sorry, professional MMA, the guy I fought wasn’t very good. You build your way up to it and you fight the best guys when you get up to that level. You shouldn’t be fighting good guys at that time.
Bisping avslutade med att inte finns någon logik i Fergusons argument:
And since he’s got to the UFC, and continued to be undefeated and — I mean, I love Tony (Ferguson) but there’s no logic in the argument there. Ok, great he didn’t fight the best people prior to the UFC, ok fair enough have whatever feelings you want on that. When he got to the UFC, he remained undefeated, he fought excellent competition. He beat (Dustin) Poirier, (Conor) McGregor, (Justin) Gaethje — there’s so many people I can’t think off the top of my head, and he beat them all. So what he did before the UFC shouldn’t even matter.
