UFC 274 was a very important event for Tony Ferguson as he was considering retiring from the sport. His fight against Michael Chandler didn't end well but it did have a great start for ‘El Cucuy.'
The first round of Tony Ferguson's fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 274 helped him realize he shouldn't retire. He still belongs in the sport and believes he has a future in MMA.
“I had to go back, I talked to my dad, I talked to my coaches, and I said if I knew that I didn’t have the gumption or the will to want to go anymore if I didn’t do good in that first round, I would have called it quits,” Ferguson told Submission Radio. “I would have said, ‘Fuck this, I’m out, I’m retiring, I’m going to go find something different, I’ll coach everybody to be at this high level and that’s it.’ But when I went back and watched the fight and I remember reviewing everything, it was like something happened, something clicked in me.
“So, here I am, I have a TKO on my record, I have a submission record, you know what I mean?” he continued. “I’ve been put out, knocked out, I’ve lost by TKO, I’ve lost by decision. It’s a pain in the ass to be able to look at these losses, but like I said, if I didn’t have the will and the want to be able to do that and then know that when Dana [White] said I looked phenomenal in that first round, I looked really good, I would have just called it quits. But right now I’m fucking hungry, man.”
The future is a little bit uncertain for Tony Ferguson after taking his fourth loss in a row. It will have to be seen what is next for him in the UFC and if stays at lightweight or moves to welterweight.
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