This is the UFC 262 live blog for Tony Ferguson vs. Beneil Dariush, the lightweight co-headliner for Saturday’s fight card at Toyota Center in Houston.
Ferguson, a former interim champion, enters in a must-win situation for his title aspirations after a pair of losses, one a brutal TKO loss to Justin Gaethje for the interim title at UFC 249 and the other a lopsided decision loss to current lightweight title challenger Charles Oliveira. Before the coronavirus upended the world, he was scheduled to fight for the lightweight title against then-champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, realizing a matchup that had been cancelled on four occasions.