Tony Ferguson skadade sig i april innan det tilltänkta mötet mot den nuvarande lättviktsmästaren Khabib Nurmagomedov, men hoppas nu på att komma tillbaka i september.
Via ’MMAFighting’:
I’m about 90 percent right now. Obviously, I want to get back in there. September looks good for me.
Ferguson vill då ha en ny chans att möta Nurmagomedov, som han bokats mot vid 4 tidigare tillfällen utan att en match blivit av. UFC:s VD Dana White berättade tidgare att han aldrig mer kommer att försöka att få det att bli av heller.
Ferguson känner också att Khabib blev exponerad i sitt möte med Al Iaquinta som hoppade in på kort varsel.
Don’t know, haven’t heard shit. What I know is I’ve been keeping my nose clean, making sure that my leg is healing right. As far as how the fights are gonna go, the fans want to see myself and Khabib. That’s what they really want to see. Conor [McGregor’s] got his shit going on – slap on the wrist, whatever, that’s not my business – so if the shit happens and they want to go with Khabib, let’s do this. Let’s have some fun with it.
I was not impressed by Khabib’s performance [against Iaquinta]. Obviously his conditioning was in check a little bit. Al Iaquinta, he did what he had to do and he was an Ultimate Fighter, he went all five rounds. It was exactly what I expected was gonna happen. [Khabib] got exposed, it’s what I knew.
Det finns en chans att ett möte mot Khabib kommer att gå till Conor McGregor istället. Ferguson hade detta att säga ifall den matchningen blir av:
’I hope they both get knocked out.’
Ferguson har ett record på 23 vinster och 3 förluster. Senast gick han match mot Kevin Lee, där han segrade via submission i tredje ronden.
