{"id":259746,"date":"2025-11-03T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259746\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:45:08","slug":"tony-ferguson-returns-will-be-unifying-that-belt-for-misfits-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259746\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson returns, \u2018will be unifying that belt\u2019 for Misfits Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fresh off his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/386074\/misfits-22-results-tony-ferguson-stops-salt-papi-with-comeback-ko-for-first-win-since-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knockout victory over Salt Papi<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/385854\/misfits-22-live-streaming-results-video-highlights-till-vs-rockhold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misfits 22 in late August<\/a>, which awarded Ferguson the interim middleweight title, the former UFC lightweight and Ultimate Fighter (TUF) champ is already back inside the gym training for his December return against a Misfits opponent to be named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The logical matchup would be a title unification bout against current middleweight champion, AnEsonGib.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to announce his opponent, but Tony will be [returning on Dec. 20] and will be unifying that belt, one way or another,\u201d promoter Mams Taylor told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1985437072199733431?s=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>. \u201cWill be great to have him back. Honestly, I\u2019ve gotten to know Tony really well \u2014 such a humble, cool guy and I\u2019m excited that he\u2019s fighting. His fan base initially hated us for putting him on against Salt Papi. I\u2019ve been seeing him train. He\u2019s going to do fine. Don\u2019t worry about it. And he did. He did very well and I think he\u2019ll continue to do very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Taylor\u2019s remarks suggest a deal may not be reached with AnEsonGib, who would likely be stripped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off his knockout victory over Salt Papi at Misfits 22 in late August, which awarded Ferguson the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-259746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}