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Khabib Nurmagomedov Offers to Pay Extra $200,000 To Get Fight With Tony Ferguson

January 2, 2017 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Khabib Nurmagomedov is willing to pay the remainder of Tony Ferguson’s salary demands to get a fight between them going. Nurmagomedov took to Twitter and offered to pay $200,000 to Ferguson, in order to match the fighter’s request for pay equity with him for a potential bout:

Ferguson previously said that he was willing to fight Nurmagomedov, but Dana White said it wouldn’t happen because Ferguson’s demands for pay equity mean that he wouldn’t be honoring the new contract he signed. The two have been booked for a fight twice before between The Ultimate Fighter 22 Finale and UFC on FOX 19, although injuries prevented both from happening.