One of the talked-about would-be matchups at 155 pounds right now is between Michael Chandler and Tony Ferguson. Recently, “El Cucuy” put out a tweet urging Chandler to “man up” and accept a fight, which irritated top ten lightweight Gregor Gillespie.
Chandler didn’t respond to Ferguson’s call-out on Twitter, but he did so in a recent appearance on The MMA Hour. According to him, the UFC offered a fight with Ferguson upon his signing in 2020, but the former interim champion supposedly turned it down.
“I signed with the promotion, the UFC, in September,” Chandler explained (via MMA Fighting).