UFC-lättviktaren Tony Ferguson (25-7) har utmanat den forne rivalen Khabib Nurmagomedov (29-0) till att coacha mot honom i The Ultimate Fighter.
Tony Ferguson utmanar Khabib Nurmagomedov att coacha mot honom i TUF
Han må ha förlorat via en brutal knockout mot Michael Chandler vid UFC 274 men Ferguson blickar redan framåt mot nya äventyr. I en nylig intervju med Ariel Helwani berättade Ferguson om sin plan där han och den pensionerade legendaren Khabib Nurmagomedov äntligen möts i en tävling efter att deras tänkta match under årens gång ställts in fem gånger.
Ferguson sade i The MMA Hour samt i Submission Radio att Nurmagomedov inte ens behöver avbryta sin pension då han istället föreslår att de möts som coacher i The Ultimate Fighter. Ni kan höra och läsa Fergusons uttalanden nedan:
.@TonyFergusonXT has a proposal for how to ”squash some beef” with Khabib: Coach against each other on The Ultimate Fighter 🍿 #TheMMAHour
“When his dad said we were supposed to compete, I believe that.”
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I believe that when his dad [Khabib’s] said we were supposed to compete, I believe that. I would love to be able to coach against him in The Ultimate Fighter, how about that? You know, best man wins on the team. I guarantee my coaching is a lot better than yours, Khabib. Not a lot of people understand that. I don’t have to break anyone’s rib for that s***.
My coaching goes a long away and I can build my team. I built a team for a 12-fight win streak, and I can definitely build a team again to be able to go and beat that son of a b****.
Khabib, I would love to be able to compete against him and I think people would tune in if we were on The Ultimate Fighter. It’s one of those things, I have an appreciation for the fans and if the dude’s got b**** maybe he’ll sign on the dotted line one day.
Skulle tänka sig möta Nurmagomedov i vad som helst
Ferguson säger att han skulle vara beredd att möta ryssen i vilken sport som helst:
I have nothing personal against him, besides him running away for the pandemic and being a scared dude, but I gotta respect that family [comes] first.
It doesn’t matter what game we play; it would be cool to go out there, shake his hand, squash some beef and then move on. It would be kinda cool.
He lost his pops, respect to him for that. At the end of the day, his dad said he would have loved for us to compete. Regardless if that’s MMA, chess, checkers it doesn’t matter.
Jiu-jitsu, soccer, it doesn’t matter what game we play. It would be cool to go out there, shake the dude’s hand, squash some beef, and then move on.
I have enough respect and enough cool to be able to sit down at a game table and to play a game like that, that’s man s***. A lot of people don’t have that, but it’s guys like me that have to represent this sport.
