live blog<\/a> below.<\/p>\nFerguson looks like a 40-year-old man in there. Both men out in orthodox, and start with the jabs right away. Spencer seems a little quicker to start, but Ferguson keeps back him down. Ferguson is parrying the lead, but can\u2019t find a spot for his right hand yet. Spencer jabbing and not much else. Ferguson lands a left off a stance switch. Ferguson shifting stances and lands a right. Ferguson methodically marching Spencer down and lands a right hand.<\/p>\n
Spencer is not offering enough offense and Ferguson seems to have minimal respect for him. Ferguson jabbing away, walking him down, and occassionally cracking with the rear hand. Combination from Ferguson lands to end the round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Ferguson.<\/p>\n
Ferguson with the Ali step early, feeling himself. He\u2019s on the march but Spencer is standing his ground a little more early, lands a left hook. Ferguson with an impressive level of output here, continuing to pump the jab. He\u2019s also showing some solid defense, slipping Spencer\u2019s jab. Spencer cannot find a good shot and eats a sharp right hand that stuns Spencer!<\/p>\n
Spencer on wobbly legs and retreats! Ferguson after him and the ref steps in to break up a clinch. But now Spencer is complaining about something. Ref is talking to him. Clock is still running. Spencer claiming back of the head. This is weird but the fight finally restarts and Ferguson right back on him! And down goes Spencer!<\/p>\n
Spencer hits the canvas and Ferguson stands over him yelling! The ref pushed Ferguson back, and Spencer against complains about getting punched in the back of the head. He beats the count and the round ends.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-8 Ferguson, 20-17 Ferguson overall.<\/p>\n
Spencer seems mentally dejected but comes out swinging and eats a huge left hook! Spencer is hurt and Ferguson jumps in, but Spencer lands a right! Ferguson keeps charging though and Spencer is in retreat. Spencer trying to tie up, but Ferguson breaks and hunts again. Spencer lands a decent left in space but Ferguson keeps coming.<\/p>\n
Ferguson keeps putting the pressure on and Spencer is getting more wild. And that\u2019s opening windows for Ferguson who keeps chopping away. Credit to Spencer, he\u2019s not quitting and lands a decent left hook. But then Ferguson clocks him! Spencer in full cover up mode! Spencer is almost out of there but he\u2019s showing some heart! Ferguson cooking and Spencer digging deep to survive and return fire to make it to the end of the round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Ferguson, 30-26 Ferguson overall.<\/p>\n
Spencer is still here but eating the jab again. Lands a nice right hand of his own though. And another. Ferguson keeps the pressure on though, and that\u2019s taking an effect on Spencer. This is a vintage Tony Ferguson performance. But Spencer lands a nice right hand.<\/p>\n
Ferguson slowing down a bit, but the pressure doesn\u2019t stop. Nice right hand from him. Nie exchange and Spencer might have stunned Ferguson! Right to the body got a reaction from the former UFC interim champ. Clinch and a rest from the ref. Spencer lands one up top as well! Spencer coming alive this round! Ferguson taking shots and coming back! They\u2019re brawling in there now before the round ends.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Spencer, 39-36 Ferguson overall.<\/p>\n
Spencer is going to need a finish or at least a knockdown this round, but Ferguson is right back on the gas, stinging him with the jab. Spencer with a nice right hand after a body shot. But Ferguson\u2019s jab keeps the pace of the contest. Spencer spits out his mouthpiece and the ref pauses the action. And it appears Spencer has lost a tooth! Commentary says a tooth is on the canvas. But we\u2019re back to the action.<\/p>\n
Ferguson keeps coming forward and lands a sharp right hand. Spencer\u2019s last gasp seems to have subsided as he\u2019s retreating freely. the crowd is chanting \u201cTo-Ny!\u201d and Spencer falls over in clinch. No knockdown. But on the return, Spencer swings a huge right hand that misses \u2014 AND TONY WITH A MONSTER SHOT!!! Spencer\u2019s legs are jelly and Ferguson pours it on as he stumbles with seconds left! Ferguson can\u2019t get the finish and Spencer is saved by the bell!<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Ferguson, 49-45 Ferguson overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Tony Ferguson vs. Warren Spencer full fight video highlights from their co-main event clash in Dubai on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-359075","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","18":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359075","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=359075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}