{"id":347443,"date":"2020-04-17T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=347443"},"modified":"2020-04-17T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:05:28","slug":"tony-ferguson-makes-weight-for-canceled-ufc-249-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tony-ferguson-makes-weight-for-canceled-ufc-249-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson makes weight for canceled UFC 249 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson told us he would make weight for his canceled UFC 249 fight with Justin Gaethje, and he made good on that promise.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning \u2014 at the precise time he would have weighed in for his fight with Gaethje had UFC 249 gone ahead \u2014 Ferguson stepped onto a scale and hit 155 lbs. Lightweight championship weight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tony Ferguson just sent me this. He has officially made 155. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yy9zWWqYPB\">pic.twitter.com\/yy9zWWqYPB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1251189587231363074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was originally expected to fight undisputed UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 249. Amid tightening travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Nurmagomedov ended up getting stuck in Russia, and was ruled out of the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was then matched up with Gaethje in a short-notice interim lightweight title fight.\u00a0Days after this short-notice interim bout was announced, the entire UFC 249 card fell through. UFC President Dana White confirmed the card was dead, adding that pressure from UFC broadcaster ESPN and its parent company Disney influenced his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Just when the MMA world began to adjust to the reality that there would be no UFC fights for awhile, White announced a new UFC card, scheduled for May 9. If this card actually happens, the expectation is that it will be headlined by a rescheduled interim title fight between Gaethje and Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>While the UFC&#8217;s first attempt at booking this Ferguson vs. Gaethje fight fell through, Ferguson promised to make weight earlier this week. He also asked Gaethje if he would be doing the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Justin_Gaethje?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Justin_Gaethje<\/a> You Gonna Make Weight Friday? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufc249?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufc249<\/a> -CSO- &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f3c6;&#x1f1f2;&#x1f1fd;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Ferguson (@TonyFergusonXT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyFergusonXT\/status\/1249926159011164160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You gonna make weight Friday?&#8221; Ferguson wrote in a Tweet to Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p>While Gaethje declined to undertake a weight-cut for a fight that isn&#8217;t happening, that evidently didn&#8217;t deter Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Tony Ferguson making weight despite his fight being canceled?<\/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 4\/17\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson told us he would make weight for his canceled UFC 249 fight with Justin Gaethje, and he made good on that promise. On Friday morning \u2014 at the precise time he would have weighed in for his fight with Gaethje had UFC 249 gone ahead \u2014 Ferguson stepped onto a scale and hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":305365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10113,39610],"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 makes weight for canceled UFC 249 fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tony Ferguson told us he would make weight for his canceled fight with Justin Gaethje, and he made good on that promise, hitting his mark Friday morning.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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