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Recently, UFC lightweights Michael Chiesa and Tony Ferguson have gone toe to toe in various interviews<\/a> as ‘The Maverick’ and ‘El Cucuy’ have continued to trade barbs back and forth following Chiesa’s callout of the top ranked lightweight contender.<\/p>\n

Following Chiesa’s callout of Ferguson for an interim lightweight title fight,<\/a> Ferguson shut down the idea, explaining that fight with Chiesa wasn’t appealing to him, and that he would prefer to fight Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Chiesa has now fired back at Ferguson in an interview with MMAMania<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of hypocritical. I mean, he pulled out of a fight before, and what did he do? He went back to try and get the rematch with Khabib, so I don\u2019t see why it would be out of the norm of possibility for me to do the same thing.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a ruptured disk, I wasn\u2019t sick in the hospital with the flu, or whatever the hell he had. I had a disk bulging out of my spine, there is a real big difference, man. If he doesn\u2019t want none, then whatever. What\u2019s with these guys that are ranked higher than me asking for guys that are ranked lower than me? It doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Nate is a money fight at this point. He\u2019s a money fighter, he\u2019s a PPV draw,\u201d he added. \u201cLook, Tony, you are not a PPV draw, you\u2019re not going to get a fight with Nate, let\u2019s run it back. I am not speaking illogically. All these matchups I ask for, they make sense. I ruptured a disk, I rehabbed, and now I\u2019m back.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Chiesa of course is currently on a 3-fight win streak that has seen him pick up back to back submission wins after picking up a unanimous decision over Mitch Clarke.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 3\/15\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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