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Tony Ferguson teases major announcement amid rumored UFC exit: ‘Big changes goin’ on’

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Former interim UFC lightweight champion, Tony Ferguson has teased some “big changes” amid links to a potential exit from the promotion — off the back of his record-setting eighth straight Octagon defeat earlier this summer.

Ferguson, a victor of The Ultimate Fighter and a former interim lightweight champion, suffered a disappointing eighth consecutive defeat earlier this summer in his return to action — in the form of a first round rear-naked choke submission loss to Michael Chiesa at UFC Abu Dhabi.

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The defeat came as an unwanted record-setting one for the Oxnard native, who had surpassed former two-weight champion, B.