Top UFC lightweight contender Tony Ferguson is not happy with the current state of the 155-pound division.
On a recent edition of Submission Radio, Ferguson shared his thoughts on UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor, as well as fellow top contenders Nate Diaz and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“Khabib, McGregor and Nate Diaz are a bunch of (expletive). Well, let me say it this way, they’re a bunch of non-winners. Didn’t mean to say that, let me try and clean it up. These guys are not in it to win it. Their bushido way is not in the shinobi way, they’re not in it for a ninja. You say ‘ninja skills,’ you want to say ‘don’t be scared homie.’ It’s all fake for them and I understand it. You want to build your following, that’s cool. I say, you ain’t shit without your homeboys. And I don’t know if Conor deserves the red panty night at the sight of my hands like the butcher, cause that dude is an easy plate to pick and three hit wonder, let me talk my way to a title. I have to give it to him. You know, not everyone can do it the way he did it. But as far as technical goes, I’m way, way better of a fighter than him. I hit way harder than him and I’m very hard to hit and I roll with the punches more than anybody. One of my leg kicks would chop his leg off and that dude would go limping home to Ireland. I’m seriously tired of this leprechaun, I’m tired of these fake (expletive) dudes. Let some real fighters up in the division. I say (expletive) these rankings, they don’t know (expletive). I mean, the only people that I really pay attention to are the G’s in my phone, the ones that call me and they know exactly. But we know already that I’m rough around the edges, but I’m a (expletive) tough as nails fighter and I don’t give a (expletive) about the other (expletive). I don’t. I’m in it to win it and that belt will look a lot better on my shelf than his.”
Ferguson is on a nine-fight win streak in the UFC lightweight division. His win streak includes wins over Josh Thomson, Edson Barboza, and former UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos.
