Tony Ferguson has once more placed the blame at Conor McGregor’s door over a failed showdown in the UFC
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But during his memorable stay in the UFC, Ferguson enjoyed a lengthy feud with former two-weight champion Conor McGregor.
Failing to ever set foot in the Octagon with McGregor, Ferguson held the interim lightweight crown during the Dubliner’s 2016 hiatus.
Reflecting on their failed super fight in the time since, Ferguson claimed McGregor and his team were under his thumb.
Tony Ferguson reveals insight into Conor McGregor’s training regime
Infamously issuing a call out to McGregor after his interim title victory, the duo shared the Dubliner’s return card in 2017; however, they failed to ever face off against each other in combat.
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And long touted as the kryptonite to the veteran’s striking if they fought, Ferguson claimed he had so much intel on how the megastar trained in the past, that McGregor and his entire team were “scared” to take him on.
“If it does come to fruition [a fight against McGregor], yes, I will turn it up and I will f—— hire everybody that I used to when we were getting back, because I got the full dossier,” Ferguson told Dublin Live.
“I got paperwork on paperwork on how these guys were training, what they were doing and at that time why they were doing it,” Ferguson added. “And it scared the f— out of them. They wanted nothing to do with me.”
And while a fight with the former dual-division kingpin failed to ever happen, at one stage, McGregor was pursuing the Oxnard veteran in his return to the Octagon.
Conor McGregor planned a 2017 fight with Tony Ferguson
Infamously returning to mixed martial arts to take on veteran rival Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2017, McGregor initially had a different fight in mind for his comeback to the Octagon.
On the back of his lucrative pro boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather, McGregor was heavily linked with a title unification clash against Ferguson.
So much so, in fact, that during that same year, McGregor was locked in negotiations to face The Ultimate Fighter winner.
“What interests me is a UFC bout,” McGregor said in 2017 during an interview with Entertainment..ie. “There is a fighter [Ferguson] with the interim lightweight belt — I feel like that [fight] will be next.”
“We’ll see how negotiations go,” McGregor explained.
Ultimately the duo failed to ever settle their long-standing differences in the Octagon, however.