{"id":387859,"date":"2022-05-07T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=387859"},"modified":"2022-05-07T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:12:07","slug":"still-one-of-the-most-elite-fighters-in-the-world-dana-white-says-tony-ferguson-is-not-fighting-for-his-ufc-life-against-michael-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/still-one-of-the-most-elite-fighters-in-the-world-dana-white-says-tony-ferguson-is-not-fighting-for-his-ufc-life-against-michael-chandler\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Still One of the Most Elite Fighters in the World\u201d- Dana White Says Tony Ferguson Is Not Fighting for His \u2018UFC Life\u2019 Against Michael Chandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tony Ferguson takes on Michael Chandler in what will be his first fight in a year. The last time \u2018El Cucuy\u2019 stepped in the cage, he suffered a lopsided unanimous decision loss against Beneil Dariush at UFC 262. In his comeback fight, Ferguson takes on Chandler, who is coming off a loss as well, albeit in extremely different circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former interim lightweight champion is currently on a three-fight skid. Justin Gaethje put a halt to Ferguson\u2019s 12-fight win streak when the two faced each other at 249. Ferguson then suffered losses against the likes of Oliveira and Dariush. Given his recent form and his age, there are rumors circulating that a loss against Chandler might be the end of the road for Ferguson in the UFC.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lOGRq1TiJuQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UFC President Dana White in a recent interview rubbished that notion. He said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s still the No.7-ranked guy in the world, you know what I mean? So he\u2019s still in the top 10. Still in the top 15. If you look at who he\u2019s fought, he\u2019s fought everybody, you know what I mean? So no, I wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s fighting for his UFC life.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/conor-mcgregor-debuts-his-super-heavyweight-frame-as-he-cruises-around-in-a-400000-ferrari-spider\/\">Conor McGregor Debuts His \u2018Super Heavyweight\u2019 Frame as He Cruises Around in a $400,000 Ferrari Spider<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is the fight against Michael Chandler a do or die fight for Tony Ferguson?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Dana White has said that Ferguson\u2019s future is not in doubt, there have been many instances where Dana White\u2019s statements have not stood the test of time. If he loses against Chandler, It is hard to believe that the UFC would retain a 38-year-old on a four-fight skid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-387863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Ferguson\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make matters even worse, Ferguson and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a> do not see eye to eye. In recent press conferences, \u2018El Cucuy\u2019 has gone on to brand Dana White, a drug dealer, for not letting him in participate in other sports outside of the UFC. Keeping in mind all the above factors as much as fans would like to believe otherwise, a loss might mean the last we see of Tony Ferguson in the UFC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson takes on Michael Chandler in what will be his first fight in a year. The last time \u2018El Cucuy\u2019 stepped in the cage, he suffered a lopsided unanimous decision loss against Beneil Dariush at UFC 262. In his comeback fight, Ferguson takes on Chandler, who is coming off a loss as well, albeit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}