Former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson hasn’t had the best year, but ‘El Cucuy’ is hoping to turn things around at UFC 229.
The top-ranked lightweight contender suffered a freak injury (he tripped over a wire in-studio and tore a ligament in his knee) just days before his scheduled bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223 and was forced out of the main event at the last minute.
To rub salt in the wound, the UFC stripped him of the interim lightweight title a few days later and the fight promotion seems to have all but forgotten Ferguson in the lead-up to his comeback fight against Anthony Pettis at UFC 229.