UFC<\/a> star has decided to switch to Misfits Boxing, where he will face Salt Papi in his professional debut.<\/p>\n![\"Tony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226676467-1024x670.jpg\")
Photo by James Fearn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
But questions about his career in mixed martial arts have arisen, including about his rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n
Tony Ferguson blasts Khabib Nurmagomedov for never fighting him, says he will \u2018disarm him\u2019<\/p>\n
Ferguson still holds an ill feeling towards the undefeated legend for never stepping in the octagon with him.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Stomping Ground, he said: \u201cI f- \u2013 -ing disarm that b- \u2013 \u2013 -d put it back on and be like let\u2019s play a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have anything else I would fight him in MMA, I\u2019m not going to box him, I\u2019ll play you in chess, I\u2019m going to kick your a\u2013 anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m smarter than you dude, and you\u2019re a smart guy because your pops told you not to fight me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Khabib vs Ferguson was cancelled for the final time on April 18th 2020 because of the pandemic, and was cancelled four times previously.<\/p>\n
The American was supremely confident about his chances if the pair had squared off that year.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cNo disrespect on that one but he didn\u2019t want his son to turn out to look like any of the other opponents that I churned out bloody because I had his number that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony Ferguson ready to prove the doubters wrong in Misfits debut<\/p>\n
August 30th for \u2018El Cucuy\u2019 presents an altogether different challenge, having boxed only when he was younger, the star is now looking for a win after losing eight consecutive UFC bouts.<\/p>\n
Some fans believe the legend should just finish his career instead of facing Nathaniel Bustamante (AKA Salt Papi), but that\u2019s not on the cards for him.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Ariel Helwani, he said: \u201cNinety percent of the f- \u2013 -ing comments out there are saying that I\u2019m washed up, I\u2019m old, and I should f- \u2013 -ing retire and all this other bulls- \u2013 -.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other 20% is saying that \u2018Salt Papi\u2019 is going to knock me out. So 100% of you b- \u2013 \u2013 -es are out there hating on me. You know what? That\u2019s more fuel for my fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bustamante holds a 4-2 (4 KOs) record in Misfits pro boxing and will be looking to add the huge name of Ferguson to that resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson was an MMA fan favourite before his move over to the boxing world this August. One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,15058,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-19120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120","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=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}