He stacked victories and bonuses and names. He was the boogeyman that his Spanish sobriquet references, but somewhere between preparing for Nurmagomedov and the letdown that came with watching the bout slip away for the fifth time, Ferguson’s focus waned ever so slightly, and his opponents made him pay.
“I think more than anything else, it was chasing after a dude that didn’t want to fight for the longest time,” he said, refusing to utter Nurmagomedov’s name, when asked what went wrong in 2020.
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He stacked victories and bonuses and names. He was the boogeyman that his Spanish sobriquet references, but somewhere between preparing for Nurmagomedov and the letdown that came with watching the bout slip away for the fifth time, Ferguson’s focus waned ever so slightly, and his opponents made him pay.
“I think more than anything else, it was chasing after a dude that didn’t want to fight for the longest time,” he said, refusing to utter Nurmagomedov’s name, when asked what went wrong in 2020.
