On March 4th, Tony Ferguson will take on Khabib Nurmagomedov for the interim UFC lightweight championship in a bout and a title shot a long time in the making. The fight pits the top two contenders in the division up against one another as current champion Conor McGregor awaits the birth of his first child (/chases down a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr.) and the winner should be set up for a shot at the real title later in the year.
But don’t tell Ferguson that.
Though his fight with Nurmagomedov is only for an interim championship, “El Cucuy” believes this fight will determine who the real lightweight champion is, and in a recent interview with Submission Radio, Ferguson went off on the current lightweight champion.