Tony Ferguson was on fire at the UFC 274 media day and he fired shots at just about everyone. His opponent Michael Chandler took some hits and so did UFC president Dana White.

There were a lot of claims from Tony Ferguson about the pay in the UFC and he even made some claims about not being able to play others sports. The highlight was when he called his boss, Dana White, a drug dealer.

“I think we’re underpaid, personally, to be real,” Ferguson said via MMAJunkie. “… I asked Dana to box. He said, ‘Fuck 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 playing different sports at a high level. … I want to go do all these couple things but then I have this guy right here acting like a f*cking drug dealer telling me I can’t go and do this shit. I want to go make more money for my family.

“… You make your money by showing up, winning and having good performances. Right now, we’re getting paid crypto, I guess, huh? They’re following everybody’s suit. They’re waiting for everybody to speak up. They’re waiting for everything else like that.”

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An incident from 2018 has brought a lot of anger from Tony Ferguson. He was supposed to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov for the UFC title before a last-minute injury forced him out of the fight.

“I mean, when it comes down to that and I get stripped of my title because I took a fall and had a bad accident, I should’ve sued,” Ferguson said ahead of UFC 274. “But what I did was I felt good for my company. I wanted to be the man. I wanted to make sure everybody knew that I can fucking do this stuff without anybody else’s help. That’s a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, to kind of keep coming here and smiling and being used to be on a poster, so I have that high value.”