When Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov meet at UFC 223 on April 7, it will be a championship showdown between two of the best lightweights on the planet.
The fight will be for the official lightweight title. Although Ferguson holds the interim strap, UFC President Dana White said that current champ Conor McGregor will be stripped “as soon as one punch is thrown.” The delay seems to simply be a safeguard incase the fight falls apart like it infamously did at UFC 209 when Nurmagomedov was hospitalized after a bad weight cut.