Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , Radio Highlight , UFC , Videos UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa was supposed to fight Tony Ferguson this past July at UFC Fight Night 91. Then a back injury ruled that out . Now recovered, Chiesa (14-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) wants the UFC to rebook the bout, and thinks there’s an opening with Ferguson’s (22-3 MMA, 12-1 UFC) recent meeting against Khabib Nurmagomedov (24-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) canceled for the third time . “I’m looking at Tony, because look at the landscape of the lightweight division,” Chiesa told MMAjunkie Radio. “Conor (McGregor) could possibly be fighting Floyd (Mayweather).
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