{"id":268485,"date":"2018-01-23T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268485"},"modified":"2018-01-23T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:32:53","slug":"tony-ferguson-not-happy-mystery-surrounding-conor-mcgregors-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tony-ferguson\/tony-ferguson-not-happy-mystery-surrounding-conor-mcgregors-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson is not happy about the mystery surrounding Conor McGregor&#8217;s belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 7, at UFC 223, UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson will take on Khabib Nurmagomedov in a lightweight title fight. That said, Ferguson doesn&#8217;t know whether he&#8217;ll be defending his interim title, or fighting for the undisputed title, which would first have to be stripped from <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>.\u00a0UFC President Dana White has been incredibly vague and unclear when asked about this situation, and it&#8217;s starting to get to Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pj9dGd\">\u201cYeah, it bothers me. It bothers the sh*t out of me, dude,\u201d A fired up Ferguson admitted Monday on<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MVztyR3flwI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The MMA Hour\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/1\/22\/16920694\/tony-ferguson-admits-ufc-223-situation-bothers-the-sh-t-out-of-him-we-dont-know-if-were-fighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cStraight up. I\u2019m the f*cking champ and we don\u2019t know if we\u2019re fighting for the real belt or not. What the f*ck is that? Dana White is telling us one thing on one [side] of the curtain and on the other side he\u2019s saying, \u2018No, Conor McGregor is the champion. Go and do your homework.\u2019 And I love Dana, man, but I\u2019m like, \u2018What the f*ck, dude? Am I not the champ or am I the champ? Do you want to hype me up or do you not want to hype me up for this fight?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"sjnFAb\">\u201cIt was almost like they were kind of embarrassed to ask or to be questioned,\u201d Ferguson added. \u201cThey didn\u2019t know what the f*ck was going on. It was kind of like, \u2018Well sh*t, what\u2019s going on?\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"fTy7e7\">\u201cLook, I understand that there\u2019s business, and there\u2019s probably big business to have to do with McGregor, but that has nothing to do with myself or my family. He does not make our world go around, that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to say. I have 10 fights in a row that I have won via my coaches and my teammates and my family, not even in that order. Even before that, I knocked out everybody at 170 pounds. I\u2019m a fight finisher. I\u2019m a fan pleaser. And I go out there and I make people bloody. I\u2019m the worst nightmare for anybody that steps inside that Octagon, and I am the f*cking champ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov should battle for the undisputed title at UFC 223?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/23\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 7, at UFC 223, UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson will take on Khabib Nurmagomedov in a lightweight title fight. 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