{"id":316766,"date":"2019-06-19T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316766"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:48:22","slug":"dana-white-fires-back-at-ufc-fans-terrorizing-him-over-tony-ferguson-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-fires-back-at-ufc-fans-terrorizing-him-over-tony-ferguson-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White fires back at UFC fans &#8216;terrorizing&#8217; him over Tony Ferguson title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson wants a shot at the UFC lightweight title currently owned by Khabib Nurmagomedov. Riding high on 12-straight wins over some of the division&#8217;s best fighters, he&#8217;s more than earned the opportunity, and he&#8217;s getting tired of waiting.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, his fans are tired of waiting too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Instagram on Tuesday, UFC President divulged that he&#8217;s recently been &#8220;terrorized&#8221; by passionate Tony Ferguson fans, who are demanding he grant the top lightweight contender a title shot.<\/p>\n<p>He reminds those fans that he has not denied Ferguson a title shot outright, and that UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov is currently tied up with a UFC 242 fight with interim champion Dustin Poirier anyway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QHq2Gw\">\u201cWhen did I say that this guy doesn\u2019t deserve anything? I mean if you do your homework on the Tony Ferguson thing, how many times have Tony Ferguson and Khabib [Nurmagomedov] been lined up to fight? It didn\u2019t work out,\u201d White said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/6\/19\/18691091\/dana-white-fires-back-at-claims-that-hes-denying-tony-ferguson-a-title-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cHe was the interim champion, blew his knee out, he had to have ACL surgery. He was out. We just offered him the fight with [Dustin] Poirier to fight Khabib next, he turned the fight down. Then he came back a few weeks later and was ready to fight again.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Nf8ciM\">\u201cEverybody\u2019s acting like I\u2019ve denied Tony his shot at the title,\u201d White continued. \u201cIt\u2019s just that he\u2019s had a bad string of luck and things haven\u2019t gone his way. But everybody\u2019s terrorizing me like I\u2019m not giving him what he deserves. If you\u2019re a fan of the sport, you saw how this whole thing played out. That\u2019s how we got where we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this response from Dana White? Do you think it will soothe the fired up fans of Tony Ferguson?<\/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 6\/19\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson wants a shot at the UFC lightweight title currently owned by Khabib Nurmagomedov. Riding high on 12-straight wins over some of the division&#8217;s best fighters, he&#8217;s more than earned the opportunity, and he&#8217;s getting tired of waiting. As it turns out, his fans are tired of waiting too. 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