{"id":191147,"date":"2016-04-05T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=191147"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T00:03:11","slug":"donald-cerrone-campaigning-to-fight-khabib-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/donald-cowboy-cerrone\/donald-cerrone-campaigning-to-fight-khabib-nurmagomedov\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Cerrone campaigning to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today news broke that Tony Ferguson had been forced out of his main event <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tony-ferguson\/tony-ferguson-pulls-fight-khabib-nurmagomedov-evans-vs-teixeira-new-main-event-ufc-fox-19\/\">fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> at UFC on FOX on April 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was concern that the UFC wouldn&#8217;t be able to find someone willing to step in on such short notice to fight Nurmagomedov, however the one and only <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-donald-cerrone-ultimate-8\/\">Donald &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; Cerrone<\/a> has thrown his name into the mix of potential short-notice opponents for &#8216;The Eagle&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I Know A Guy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ZJU4meKo7\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ZJU4meKo7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cowboy Cerrone (@Cowboycerrone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cowboycerrone\/status\/717492875294978049\">April 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today news broke that Tony Ferguson had been forced out of his main event fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC on FOX on April 16th. 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