{"id":245245,"date":"2017-07-26T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245245"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:45:50","slug":"tony-ferguson-blasts-khabib-nurmagomedov-turning-fight-ufc-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tony-ferguson\/tony-ferguson-blasts-khabib-nurmagomedov-turning-fight-ufc-216\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson blasts Khabib Nurmagomedov for turning down fight at UFC 216"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last weekend, we learned that undefeated lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov had <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/khabib-nurmagomedov-turns-offer-fight-tony-ferguson-ufc-216\/\">turned down a UFC 216 bout<\/a> with Tony Ferguson \u2013 which, of course, was supposed to occur back at UFC 209 in March. Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/RT.com\">RT.com<\/a>, Nurmagomedov explained that the October 7 card wouldn&#8217;t work for him, and that he was instead hoping to fight Ferguson at UFC 217 on November 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s the date I asked UFC for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;First they offered me a fight on October 7, but I couldn\u2019t accept it. I want to prepare well and I don\u2019t want to put my body at risk. I don\u2019t want to make the same mistake and push my body. I had to take care of my health, something I\u2019ve been doing in the last four months. And now I need at least 100 days of hard work to get back in fighting shape.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow I\u2019m training at 100 percent capacity already. All my media activity is over and I\u2019m going straight to Dagestan for a training camp for a month or a month and a half. Then I\u2019ll go to train in the States for about two months, so I\u2019ll be able to perform at the end of the fall. As I said earlier, we will repeat the same fight again with Tony Ferguson for the belt.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Nurmagomedov is apparently happy to wait a little longer for his bout with Ferguson, Ferguson doesn&#8217;t seem so keen. On Tuesday afternoon, the streaking American lightweight took to Twitter to bash Nurmagomedov for the delay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They Offer You A Fight At <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC216?src=hash\">#UFC216<\/a> &amp; You Turn It Down? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamKhabib\">@TeamKhabib<\/a> Get Off The Tiramisu Cycle. I&#8217;m Going To Keep Lifting SOB <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TiramisuTuesday?src=hash\">#TiramisuTuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Ferguson (@TonyFergusonXT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyFergusonXT\/status\/890012440124993536\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They offer you a fight at UFC 216 and you turn it down?&#8221; Ferguson said in his Tweet. &#8220;Get off the Tiramisu Cycle. 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