After being on the receiving end of ground-and-pound attacks towards the end of the first round, Tony Ferguson emerged victorious against Kevin Lee to win the interim lightweight title at UFC 216. But as he observed from the sidelines, Khabib Nurmagomedov was not impressed.
“I think [Ferguson] won because Kevin Lee was fighting with him like chicken,” Nurmagomedov said on Monday’s MMA Hour episode (via MMA Fighting). “That’s why he won. Lee] talked too much. He was not focused on the fight; he was focused on, I think, promoting the fight.