UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson was never one to mince words. His latest outburst, however, might land “El Cucuy” him in hot water with the UFC brass, as Ferguson sat at the UFC 274 press conference to tell the world that Dana White is “acting like a f***ing drug dealer”. Tony earned some laughs in his last appearance, declaring that his opponent Michael Chandler has “Dana White privilege”.
Tony Ferguson doesn’t think it’s funny at all. “I don’t think that s*** is very funny. You do maybe. I don’t think it’s very funny. Everybody is looking at it, they’re smiling and laughing at it but nobody’s saying s***.
Tony Ferguson: Dana White “acting like a f****** drug dealer”
I’m the one up here with Dana Brown privilege or whatever the f*** you want to call it. I don’t think it’s very funny anymore. I don’t think you should think that’s very funny. So I’m taking this weekend very f****** seriously.
So I’ll kick this Dana White boy’s ass.” Tony Ferguson is set to fight Michael Chandler this weekend, and his problems aren’t with Chandler per se. His biggest issue seems to be that the UFC underpays its fighters, but won’t let them earn money elsewhere.
“Nothing personal against Chandler,” Ferguson said. “But I’m going to be real, I’m tired of the retaliation tactics from the company.
I think we’re underpaid, personally, I’m going to be real. I’m not going to say too much. Dana said something the other day, it’s on my phone, I think it’s from MMA Fighting actually reposted it talking about how boxers being overpaid. I asked Dana to box, he said f*** no. I’m like, why?
I want to go play baseball, I want to go do other pro sports. I’m an athlete. I grew up doing different pro sports at a very high level. I won a state championship in football, we were 27-1. I come from Grand Valley State University as a wrestler, I want to go do wrestling. I’ve got uncle Brock [Lesnar] that’s right there watching me.
I want to go do all these couple things but then I have this guy right here acting like a f****** drug dealer, telling me I can’t go do this s***. I want to go make more money for my family.”
Ferguson continued: “The promoters here act like drug dealers sometimes. They just throw down a couple bucks here and there like ‘come here, kid — here, take this, take this, take this’ — and if you don’t have the will to say no to that stupid s*** you’re going to get f*****.”
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