Will a Tony Ferguson win finally get us a Khabib Nurmagomedov fight, once and for all?
I mean, if you’re on this website, you probably already know the Khabib vs. Tony story, but on the odd chance you don’t: Five times the matchup many consider the best potential fight in the entire sport was booked, and five times it has fallen out.
The curse started with standard fight-fallout stuff like training injuries, then got absurd, with Ferguson pulling out after tearing his knee tripping over a production cord at the FOX lot on attempt No. 4, and then a worldwide pandemic causing the most recent fallout.
And yes, in theory, if Ferguson won the interim lightweight title, that would mandate a bout with champion Nurmagomedov next. But we’ve been down that road, too, and the UFC simply made Ferguson’s interim title vanish without a trace when it was expedient to do so.
On paper, the timing would be right this time. Nurmagomedov, a devout Muslim, would have enough time to get back up to speed after the holy month of Ramadan, and Ferguson, with the big if of getting through a fight with Gaethje unscathed, could step back into the fray.
But given what’s already taken the fight down, would you put your money on that?
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