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<\/p>\nCould Tony Ferguson be meeting an old foe he first stared across from 10 years ago?<\/p>\n
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Ferguson made headlines this past Saturday after picking up his first combat sports victory since 2019. After his UFC run came to an end, \u201cEl Cucuy\u201d transitioned to the sweet science, taking on Salt Papi at Misfits Boxing 22. Ferguson scored a third-round TKO win over Salt Pap<\/a>i to become the MFB interim middleweight champion.<\/p>\n On an episode of the \u201cWeighing In\u201d podcast<\/a>, Josh Thomson discussed the possibility of facing Ferguson inside the boxing ring (h\/t Bloody Elbow<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, yeah. Possibly,\u201d Thomson said. \u201cIt\u2019s boxing. I think people should understand that boxing, it\u2019s a lot easier to train. It\u2019s so different. It\u2019s just a lot easier to train for. A lot of jumping rope, a lot of bag work, a lot of running, it\u2019s a lot of road work\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Ferguson and Thomson collided under the UFC banner back in 2015. \u201cEl Cucuy\u201d won the fight via unanimous decision. Thomson has admitted that it was a rough fight to get through and said it was a reality check for him.<\/p>\n One decade later, Thomson might be swayed into dabbling in the world of boxing against his old foe.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe that\u2019s a conversation we have,\u201d Thomson said. \u201cI have a relationship with Misfits Boxing. There\u2019s been some conversations anyways with them about other fights, but, ultimately, it really just comes down to the cream rises to the top and who do I wanna fight [and] if we can get the pay right\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Thomson hasn\u2019t competed in prizefighting since Feb. 2017 when he was knocked out by Patricky \u201cPitbull\u201d Freire. He announced his retirement in early 2020. Fight fans have seen the likes of Frankie Edgar end their combat sports retirement in favor of the sweet science, albeit \u201cThe Answer\u201d will be fighting under bare-knuckle rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Tony Ferguson be meeting an old foe he first stared across from 10 years ago? Ferguson made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-109993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}