{"id":273514,"date":"2018-03-30T05:58:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=273514"},"modified":"2018-03-30T05:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:58:38","slug":"tony-ferguson-wants-gsp-not-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tony-ferguson\/tony-ferguson-wants-gsp-not-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson wants GSP, not Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Tony Ferguson is able to take out Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223 on April 7, it&#8217;s more than likely that he&#8217;ll battle <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\">Conor McGregor<\/a> in the not too distant future. Apparently, however, Ferguson isn&#8217;t all that interested in McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConor who?\u201d Ferguson said at a UFC 223 media luncheon this week (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/03\/conor-mcgregor-who-tony-ferguson-wants-georges-st-pierre-after-ufc-223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>). \u201cI mean, the guy\u2019s not in the picture. Straight up. I mean, bless his heart. He\u2019s made his money. He\u2019s doing his thing. He\u2019s got an education for his kid. That\u2019s what we all want, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConor, he\u2019s influenced a lot of fighters,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cThat\u2019s cool, man. That\u2019s dope. But it\u2019s taken a lot of work to get there. Not just (talking). It\u2019s taken work. You had to earn it. \u2026. With that much loot, what are you going to do now? Are you going to go back to a sport where you have to bleed? No. Take care of yourself, man. Really, go do your thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So who is Tony Ferguson&#8217;s dream opponent? Somewhat surprisingly, it&#8217;s former UFC welterweight and middleweight champ <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a>. Ferguson says would love to meet the Canadian star at welterweight, where his career began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGSP,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s what I signed up for in the beginning. I was 170 pounds; 155 was forced on me. One hundred and seventy pounds, where I have 12 fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA GSP match, I mean really, he wants a money fight, but he\u2019s an athlete,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cWe all have to pay bills. You\u2019ve got to pay your taxes. \u2026 Pay attention because when you\u2019re not doing it and you\u2019re not paying attention and you\u2019re going on just fighting for money fights, you\u2019re forgetting, and (the belt) starts losing its luster. It becomes tarnished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in a welterweight showdown between Tony Ferguson and Georges St-Pierre?<\/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 3\/30\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Tony Ferguson is able to take out Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223 on April 7, it&#8217;s more than likely that he&#8217;ll battle Conor McGregor in the not too distant future. Apparently, however, Ferguson isn&#8217;t all that interested in McGregor. \u201cConor who?\u201d Ferguson said at a UFC 223 media luncheon this week (via MMAJunkie). \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":272447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10140,10113],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tony Ferguson wants GSP, not Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tony-ferguson\/tony-ferguson-wants-gsp-not-conor-mcgregor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tony Ferguson wants GSP, not Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If Tony Ferguson is able to take out Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223 on April 7, it&#8217;s more than likely that he&#8217;ll battle Conor McGregor in the not too distant future. 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