Today I'm going to take a look at arguably the weirdest man in MMA, we'll look at his stats, some fight footage and talk about where I see Tony heading in the not so distant future.

Once you get over the insufferable cringe he begins to grow on you, he may lack the trash talk, and even basic communication skills, but god damn, he's in the elite of the elite when it comes to actually fighting, and that's all that really matters.

Tony "El Cucuy" Ferguson

25-3-0 (W-L-D)

Firstly lets take a look at his fight record and look at his journey from The Ultimate Fighter to now, you can see he has an excellent record in the UFC, only suffering one loss to Michael Jonhson all the way back in May 2012 at UFC on Fox 3.

As you can see it's quite the impressive record and it's only set to grow greater as he reaches the peaks of the sport and every opponent is among the best on earth.

Here is some highlights of the loss to Michael Johnson I mentioned above, as you can see it is an absolute war with huge back and forth striking exchanges. It was a great fight and an excellent fight to have as your only loss in the UFC.

Tony was recently scheduled to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov for the Lightweight Title at UFC 223 in Brooklyn New York, but ended up becoming one of the many victims during that insane fight week. He tripped on a cable doing PR and tore a ligament in his knee, and ultimately needed surgery and could not fight Khabib, for the FOURTH time.

It's a pretty gruesome injury, made all the stranger by the fact that it didn't happen during a fight or in training.

Tony is expected to be out for the next couple of months anyway, and even at that, he will still have to complete a full fight camp once he is healthy, so it might not be until the end of the year until we see him fight again, or even early next year.

The next question is who is he going to fight, does he fight Khabib for the title, who might end up defending against Dustin Poirier first, or does he come back and take a warm up fight to make sure he is 100% going in against Khabib? Knowing Tony he will want to jump in against whoever has the title straight away, no warming up, no shaking off the cobwebs, straight back to the mission at hand.

There's also the huge curve ball that is Conor Mcgregor, if he comes back before the end of the year, pending his court case, it could put Tony on the sidelines for a Title shot. The way the timeline is working out, it looks like Conor and Tony could be coming back to action around the same time, and we all know who would get the Title shot first there.

So that leaves Tony in limbo, a for sure number 1 contender, technical interim Lightweight Champion and rightful heir to the throne, but unfortunately not a fraction as profitable as McGregor, and that's all that matters to the UFC these days, why else would they be doing this in the first place, but to make as much money as possible.

I personally have craved the Tony Khabib fight for a long long time and believe it must be done at some point, but I also don't want to see Tony sit on the sidelines for over a year as he waits for McGregor and Khabib to inevitably fight, so maybe his best option is to come back and fight an Alvarez or a Poirier first, he is absolutely certain to fight for a title next if he becomes victorious in either of those bouts. At the end of the day only Tony can make that decision, and only time will will tell, I look forward to the future of the lightweight division, it's going to be mayhem for the next 2 years at least.

Tony Ferguson Fight Highlights

Thanks for checking this out and let me know if you enjoyed it and I will do more articles like this in the future, I'm thinking of doing fighter profiles and going a bit more in dept on their skill breakdown and overall performance. Let me know your thoughts below, thanks :D

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