{"id":389339,"date":"2022-05-20T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=389339"},"modified":"2022-05-20T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:22:14","slug":"clean-up-your-act-and-go-fight-some-people-tony-ferguson-refutes-recent-claims-made-by-gregor-gillespie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/clean-up-your-act-and-go-fight-some-people-tony-ferguson-refutes-recent-claims-made-by-gregor-gillespie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clean Up Your Act and Go Fight Some People&#8217;- Tony Ferguson Refutes Recent Claims Made By Gregor Gillespie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson has appeared in an uncharacteristic number of interviews following his KO loss to Michael Chandler and he\u2019s aimed to provide some clarity on his performance. Despite starting off strong, Tony Ferguson was brutally finished in the second round and is now riding a four-fight losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018El Cucuy\u2019 will have to pick his next move extremely carefully, as it may be the most make-or-break decision of his illustrious UFC career.<\/p>\n<p>One fighter who claimed to have angled for a fight against Tony Ferguson is collegiate wrestling phenom, Gregor Gillespie. Recently, Gregor \u2018The Gift\u2019 made a claim that Ferguson, turned down a fight against him and these claims are unfounded, per Tony Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-qhPkUhn9s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019d never heard about him\u2026 I was never offered a fight by the UFC with him [Gillespie]. I never heard anything, my lawyers (and) my agents never heard anything,\u201d said Ferguson. \u201cI want to be real, that dude is some kind of work man. I sent him a message\u2026 the story is, he don\u2019t change his knee pads, I guess, or something like that. He\u2019s a stinky guy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former interim lightweight champion further went on to say that Gregor Gillespie needed to clean up his act and not claim to ride on the cache of a fighter of the stature of Conor McGregor. Ferguson is keen that Gregor Gillespie looks to fight some other top names before putting him on blast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am patiently waiting for a fight that will get me closer to a title. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyFergusonXT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TonyFergusonXT<\/a> turned me down 100x last year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeChandlerMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MikeChandlerMMA<\/a> didn\u2019t seem interested, and since RDA just turned down a fight against me (WHICH I ACCEPTED), I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beneildariush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@beneildariush<\/a> will have to do.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; gregor gillespie (@gregor_the_gift) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregor_the_gift\/status\/1525923671289778177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t wanna fight a stinky guy. Clean up your act and go fight some people. You can\u2019t talk your way into the title, you\u2019re not Conor (McGregor). Conor\u2019s got value, he brings something to the table. He breaks records with the gate and everything. So do I.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/straight-up-hes-a-p-rafael-dos-anjos-hasnt-moved-past-missed-opportunity-to-fight-islam-makhachev\/\">\u2018Straight Up, He\u2019s a P****\u2019- Rafael dos Anjos Hasn\u2019t Moved Past Missed Opportunity to Fight Islam Makhachev<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you\u2019re just sitting there bitching all the time and not doing any work, or there for the company, you can\u2019t expect to talk yourself into a title fight, I\u2019m gonna be real\u2026 I recommend to him (Gillespie), get in there and fight some mothers*ckers,\u201d<\/em> Ferguson said. [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/tony-ferguson-responds-after-gregor-gillespie-accuses-him-of-turning-down-multiple-fight-offers-that-dude-is-some-kind-of-work-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXuC_bg5hsU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tony Ferguson walked through the fire during his rise to the top and it\u2019s no surprise that he wants the new age lightweight contenders to do the same. Moreover, Ferguson holds a win over the only man to knockout Gregor Gillespie in Kevin Lee and that surely adds to his confidence about a potential scrap between the two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson has appeared in an uncharacteristic number of interviews following his KO loss to Michael Chandler and he\u2019s aimed to provide some clarity on his performance. Despite starting off strong, Tony Ferguson was brutally finished in the second round and is now riding a four-fight losing streak. \u2018El Cucuy\u2019 will have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":389045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389339","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\/389339","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}