{"id":308389,"date":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","slug":"prime-tony-ferguson-beats-ufc-champ-islam-makhachev-kick-your-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308389\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Tony Ferguson beats UFC champ Islam Makhachev \u2014 \u2018Kick your ass\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sounds like Ferguson, 41, is still open to the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m going to be real, there\u2019s only two people that I want to go and fight regardless of where it\u2019s going to be at, and the interesting fights would be either Conor (McGregor) or Khabib,\u201d Ferguson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgqiDYgzcpU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Yee<\/a>. \u201cI think regardless of what happens, it\u2019s going to sell tickets, good or bad, literally that\u2019s what it\u2019s for. The hype. But you put me up there with Khabib at the White House, and I guarantee you guys are going to have fireworks. You have Khabib-Tony Round 6, make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTo me, in my opinion, Islam was one of the dudes that always had Khabib in the practice room,\u201d Ferguson added. \u201cAt the time, it was kind of like [Aljamain Sterling] and Merab [Dvalishvili], just feeling like when \u2018Aljo\u2019 left then Merab finally started to shine and stuff. It\u2019s the same thing with Khabib and Islam. I always thought Islam was more of a conditioned athlete, and doing his thing, but best of luck. But in my prime, kick your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sounds like Ferguson, 41, is still open to the matchup. \u201cI\u2019m going to be real, there\u2019s only two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-308389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","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\/308389","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=308389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}