After he set the new record for most consecutive UFC losses, it looked like the no-brainer thing was coming next: Tony Ferguson was going to retire. If nothing else, a cynic might say, using his UFC on ABC 7 first-round submission loss to Michael Chiesa (17-7 MMA, 12-7 UFC) might be a good time for Ferguson (25-11 MMA, 15-9 UFC) to say publicly he’s calling it quits – rather than go through the potential sting of hearing from the UFC he’s not wanted back. But when Chiesa yielded most of his time on the microphone, on a nationally televised event on ABC, so Ferguson could retire – rather than enjoy the immediate on-camera spoils of his first win in 3.5 years – Ferguson had a change of heart
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