The UFC is starting back up this Saturday, as UFC 249 will finally take place in Jacksonville.
Tony Ferguson is in the main event but unfortunately he won’t be fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov, which was supposed to be the main event of this original card that was scheduled to take place in April before the coronavirus rightly cancelled everything.
Ferguson will now be fighting Justin Gaethje, with the interim lightweight belt on the line. It’s not the fight we were hoping for but it should be a fun one between two brawlers that will take place in an empty arena.
Ferguson is one of the most entertaining fighters both inside and outside of the Octagon. He’s just different than most fighters/people and that usually leads to some wild things.
The Athletic published a piece today in which they asked a number of different people for their best Tony Ferguson story and it didn’t disappoint. UFC announcer Jon Anik, who’s one of the best play-by-play guys in sports, shared one in which he got hit by a lot of blood during a Ferguson-Anthony Pettis fight in 2018.
— Jon Anik (@Jon_Anik) May 4, 2020
He said:
When he fought Anthony “Showtime” Pettis in 2018, I’ve never had a blood shower like that sitting octagon-side before. We get splattered with blood on my note cards, on my face, on the front of my neck a little bit, on my shirt. But never where the blood is spewing over on top of us like a shower. I was getting legitimate dollops of human blood on the back of my shirt. And of course it wasn’t Tony Ferguson’s blood, but he had no problem tasting it and fighting through it and winning another fight by style points.
The UFC keeps all my suits, but I asked if I could keep that shirt and never wash it, and that’s the plan. I still have my suit unwashed from Mark Hunt vs. “Bigfoot” Silva in 2013 in Brisbane because we got a little sprayed there too. But this shirt I’m hoping to frame and do something special with.
Now that is gross, but I do get it.