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Tony Ferguson Says No One Wants Him to Have the Lightweight Title

May 4, 2017 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Tony Ferguson spoke with MMAjunkie for a new interview. Some highlights are below:

On Nate Diaz accusing him of calling him out for Conor McGregor’s benefit: “Point proven, Khabib, McGregor and Nate Diaz are a bunch of (expletive). Well, let me say it this way: They’re a bunch of non-winners. I didn’t mean to say it that way. Let me try clean it up.”

On calling Diaz out: “It had absolutely nothing to do with management, and it had nothing to do with the (expletive) money either. I get paid either way, and I get paid good…Maybe you can ask my management … because I was there first, I have yet to receive a title, and the monetary gains from point A and point B are absolutely, completely different. The leverage is way off.”

On believing that he should be getting more opportunities: “Do I think my worth is a little bit more than what I’m valued? Yes. Do I think my energy should be more dispersed to my side? Yes.”

On the negotiations of a possible fight between Floyd Mayweather and McGregor: “They don’t want me to have the title, management or the UFC, don’t want to have me to have the title. And I’ve worked my way up from the mail room … and I ain’t stopping. Because these dudes are soft. The money made them soft. These guys are at weed conventions or they’re going and doing these other things, but they forgot about the game and the hunger it possesses. When you see Conor step inside that ring again, it’s going to be all about show. Watch his ass get knocked out. He’s going to retire. He will never come back to the lightweight division. That dude will never show his face again. It will never happen. He’ll go and retire and avoid me like the Irish plague.”

On possibly moving up a weight class: “I can go up to 170 and beat (welterweight champ Tyron Woodley). That dude talks a lot of (expletive) and is to bougie for me. Straight up, that dude needs an ass-whipping to set himself straight. I sized him up, and 170 is just one skip and a scotch away. I’m realizing (the lightweight) division is full of bitches, and I can’t help that. So I’m going to find work wherever I’ve go, and I’ve got a contract, so technically, they’ve got to fight my ass.”

On Diaz and McGregor: “These (expletive) want to fight one time and then go retire. I get it. You’re a (expletive). It’s cool, you don’t like to fight. Alright. You’re in the wrong sport. Go try tennis. This is a man’s sport. I like to fight. Give me somebody that wants to have their ass beat. I thought this was the UFC, and we’re supposed to be the best and the toughest fighters in the world. You 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 (expletive) without your homeboys, because one-on-one with me and Nate, or me and Khabib, or myself and McGregor, you know how the outcome’s going to go.”

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