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Daniel Cormier urges Tony Ferguson to retire from MMA after UFC 296 loss: ‘That time has come’

UFC Hall of Fame inductee, Daniel Cormier has encouraged former interim lightweight titleholder, Tony Ferguson to seriously consider calling time on his storied mixed martial arts career, after the Oxnard native dropped his seventh consecutive loss at UFC 296 last weekend.

Ferguson, a former interim lightweight champion under the banner of the UFC, featured on the main card of the promotion’s final flagship event of the year last weekend, dropping a one-sided unanimous decision loss to Paddy Pimblett.

The defeat came as Ferguson’s seventh consecutively – as The Ultimate Fighter victor joined former two-weight champion, B.