{"id":358997,"date":"2025-12-21T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:13:09","slug":"tony-ferguson-wins-misfits-title-in-firefight-with-warren-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358997\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson wins Misfits title in firefight with Warren Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tony Ferguson\u2019s career renaissance continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, Ferguson took on Warren Spencer for the vacant Misfits middleweight title in the co-main event of Misfits Mania at Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai, UAE. It was Ferguson\u2019s second fight under the Misfits banner after winning his debut over Salt Papi in August, and \u201cEl Cucuy\u201d made it 2-0 since leaving the UFC, winning a five-round unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite being 41 years old, Ferguson looked like his vintage self in the ring, putting Spencer under immediate pressure. Spencer struggled to find clean shots on Ferguson early, and then nearly got stopped in the second round as Ferguson unloaded big shots, dropping him. But Spencer battled back and the match turned into a dogfight, with Spencer hurting Ferguson in the fourth round, and Ferguson nearly knocking Spencer out in the final seconds of the bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the end, Ferguson won a clear unanimous decision to take the vacant Misfits title, and establish his first winning streak since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson\u2019s career renaissance continues. On Saturday, Ferguson took on Warren Spencer for the vacant Misfits middleweight title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-358997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358997","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=358997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}