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Tony Ferguson Still Wants Nurmagomedov Next, Not McGregor

Tony Ferguson has a serious history of near-misses with recently-crowned Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov. The two have been scheduled to fight four times and all four times, one or the other has been forced to withdraw. Each man has pulled out of the scheduled bout twice, with several of those unceremonious exits occurring the week of the event. Yet despite all of the times the Nurmagomedov fight has fallen through, Ferguson remains undeterred in his desire to make it happen.

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