Tony Ferguson had been training for weeks, formulating what he thought would be the perfect gameplan to counter the offensive skills of Khabib Nurmagomedov for “UFC 209”. Just a day before the fight was scheduled to take place, however, Ferguson was informed that Khabib was unfit to compete and their interim championship fight was canceled. After a week of thinking how to approach his next fight, Ferguson has called out the lone mega-star of the lightweight division in Nate Diaz.
Just because Ferguson was next in line to square off for a championship doesn’t mean he will get a fight with Nate, or so Michael Chiesa says. Cheisa opened up on the possibility of Diaz accepting a fight with Ferguson by saying [via. MMA Mania]
“Look, Nate is a money fight at this point. He’s a money fighter, he’s a PPV draw. Look, Tony, you are not a PPV draw, you’re not going to get a fight with Nate, let’s run it back. I am not speaking illogically. All these matchups I ask for, they make sense. I ruptured a disk, I rehabbed, and now I’m back.”
