It’s a ways off, but Tony Ferguson feels he’s already in Khabib Nurmagomedov’s head ahead of their highly anticipated lightweight matchup at UFC 249, which will see ‘El Cucuy’ challenge ‘The Eagle’ for the official UFC lightweight title on April 18, 2020 at Barclays Center in New York.
Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a recent interview, former interim champ Ferguson vowed to make Khabib ‘piss blood’ and said he feels he makes the undefeated Dagestani ‘nervous’.
“I told everybody I’m going to make him piss blood. I said that a while ago,” Ferguson said (h/t Adam Guillen Jr.