{"id":363769,"date":"2020-10-07T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=363769"},"modified":"2020-10-07T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T00:19:42","slug":"michael-chandler-slams-tony-ferguson-for-turning-him-down-at-ufc-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-chandler-slams-tony-ferguson-for-turning-him-down-at-ufc-254\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chandler slams Tony Ferguson for turning him down at UFC 254"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chandler is not happy with Tony Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Ferguson was not happy with Chandler and what he was making in the UFC. He also didn&#8217;t like that the former Bellator lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/michael-chandler-lays-out-strategies-for-fights-with-nurmagomedov-gaethje\/\">is the backup fighter for UFC 254<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now you\u2019re going to bring in a new dude who I have no clue who this dude is,&#8221; Ferguson said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pN5QcjujejY\">Ariel Helwani\u2019s MMA Show<\/a>. \u201cFrom a marketing standpoint, dude has less than 100k on Twitter. You\u2019re going to try him more notoriety by throwing him against me and throwing him on the Khabib card. I get it. But don\u2019t pay him more than us. He has zero time in the UFC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears Michael Chandler caught wind of that and was quick to respond to Ferguson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You Turned Down The Fight With Me October 24 On The Biggest Card Of The Year&#8230;Now You\u2019re Talking?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Chandler (@MikeChandlerMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeChandlerMMA\/status\/1313919464363249665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>You Turned Down The Fight With Me October 24 On The Biggest Card Of The Year&#8230;Now You\u2019re Talking?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chandler is currently on a two-fight winning streak with both coming by first-round KO over Sidney Outlaw and Benson Henderson. Before that, he suffered a TKO loss to Patricio Freire to lose his lightweight title. In his career, he has notable wins over Eddie Alvarez, Patricky Freire, Marcin Held, and Goiti Yamaguchi among others.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Ferguson, meanwhile, is coming off a TKO loss to Justin Gaethje at UFC 249 for the interim lightweight title. &#8220;El Cucuy&#8221; was expected to face Khabib Nurmagomedov for the belt in April but the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>If Ferguson did turn down Chandler as he says, it would be interesting to hear why. That fight would&#8217;ve been a Fight of the Year candidate between two exciting fighters. The winner also would&#8217;ve had a case at being the next guy in line for the belt.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of Michael Chandler saying Tony Ferguson turned him down for UFC 254?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chandler is not happy with Tony Ferguson. Earlier on Wednesday, Ferguson was not happy with Chandler and what he was making in the UFC. He also didn&#8217;t like that the former Bellator lightweight champion is the backup fighter for UFC 254. &#8220;Now you\u2019re going to bring in a new dude who I have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":361413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10485,10113,39610],"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>Michael Chandler slams Tony Ferguson for turning him down at UFC 254 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Chandler slammed Tony Ferguson for allegedly turning him down for a fight at UFC 254 for the number one contender spot at 155lbs.\" \/>\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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