Efter att lättviktsmästaren Conor McGregor berättade om sitt beslut att ta en paus från sporten väntar nu Khabib Nurmagomedov och Tony Ferguson på att han ska komma tillbaka för att eventuellt få titelmatch mot irländaren. Ferguson står just nu med 9 raka segrar och Nurmagomedov står obesegrad med hela 24 raka segrar.
Nu ser det ut som att de två kan komma att gå match mot varandra om interimbältet och Ferguson skulle vilja leda den populära serien ’The Ultimate Fighter’ tillsammans med ryssen inför detta.
Det här berättade Ferguson via ’Submission Radio’:
The fans want the fight. People are blowing it up. They know Conor’s out. They know Khabib needs a fight. They know that Khabib and I were supposed to fight in January but that dude backed out. He had some boo boos he had to take care of. That’s okay, go back to [American Kickboxing Academy” and heal your boo boos with Daniel Cormier.
I’m ready to sign on the dotted line and I think the UFC knows that. And I think it needs to be for that [interim] belt. I don’t think, it needs to be for that belt, damn it. Straight up, I’ve been putting in my time, I’ve been putting in my numbers. This is my time. Let’s get some heat going for this thing. Let’s do this for The Ultimate Fighter. We can do Team Khabib versus Team Ferguson, that’d be dope.
Let’s just throw it up for an interim belt. If [McGregor’s] gonna take a step out for a while then they need to throw an interim belt out there, have a champ out there and when he comes back he can be ready for that ass whooping which will be me.
Ferguson segrade senast mot den forne lättviktsmästaren Rafael Dos Anjos via ett enhälligt domslut.
