Khabib Sends Message To Tony Ferguson

24th February 201926th November 2019 Leon Jennings

Khabib Nurmagomedov has just taken to Instagram to send a message to Tony Ferguson.

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I want to remind you guys, that before I become champion, I was close to the title fight 3 times and all 3 times I missed my opportunity. First was in July 2016 when I was offered to fight in Ramadan month and I turned it down, second was UFC 205 NYC when I was offered a title fight, bout agreement signed, but my title was given away, you know the story. Third time was UFC 209 where I was hospitalized and almost died. But after every single fail I were said: you missed your chance, earn your shot with one more victory. Tony you had your chance and you missed it, and that’s your fault only. You know that I’m disqualified and can’t fight, but it’s not fair to strip me off the title, I fought 3 times in 9 months. I won and defended my belt. As a fighter you deserve a title fight, you are great fighter and opponent, but now you have to fight or wait for my DQ to be over and fight(but UFC doesn’t want it). I don’t understand your offenses, if you fell down, you got to get up, not complain. #ufc #mma #ufclightweight

A post shared by Khabib Nurmagomedov (@khabib_nurmagomedov) on Feb 23, 2019 at 7:24pm PST

Khabib’s message follows yesterday announcement that Dustin Poirier will face Max Holloway at UFC 236, for the UFC interim lightweight title, after Ferguson turned the fight down.

Ferguson previously held the UFC interim lightweight title but was stripped of his belt when he injured his knee in a freak incident, a week ahead of his unification bout with Khabib at UFC 223.

Do you think Ferguson should have taken the interim title fight?

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