LAS VEGAS – Former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson has been knocking off one contender after the other, waiting for a shot at gold. And while he isn’t next in line, he is ready to step in for either 155-pound champ Khabib Nurmagomedov or interim champ Dustin Poirier should either man fall out of their UFC 242 headliner Sept. 7 in Abu Dhabi. “We’re fighting for a title either way,” Ferguson told MMA Junkie last Friday at the UFC Hall of Fame ceremony. “Superfights and all that would be interesting as far as (Conor McGregor) and all that good stuff, but Khabib and Poirier, (I’ll take the) winner of that obviously or if someone falls out for the title, for the belt.
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