Tony Ferguson’s 2020 campaign saw him do something he’d never done before: lose back-to-back fights.
Last year was a major letdown for Ferguson, 37, who once again missed out on a fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov that was scheduled for UFC 249, was dominated and finished in the fifth round by Nurmagomedov’s replacement Justin Gaethje, and then went on to lose a one-sided decision to Charles Oliveira at UFC 256.
It isn’t just that Ferguson had never lost consecutive fights. Before the Gaethje bout, Ferguson hadn’t lost any fights in eight years and 12 UFC appearances.