How good is Tony Ferguson

mirellale said:
Tony has holes on the feet.He is flat footed and out angled especially against southpaws.He can definitely finish Ferguson but Conor is not a bad match up for him.

Lets not act like Conor is this unbeatable unhittable machine on the feet. Conor was getting tagged alot in the Diaz fight and i'm sure Tony will tag him alot as well. Tony has a long jab and is more dynamic on the feet than Diaz is. Tony delivers more threat to Conor than Nate.Throws spinning elbow,kicks unlike Nate. Nate is just a boxer on the feet. Tony will tag Conor on the feet.He can hold his own on the feet. Tony has the same tall and lanky attributes as Nate which could give Conor trouble and I could easily see it turning into the war that the second Conor Nate fight was.Tony can make things hard for Conor and push Conor to the later rounds and have an all around more entertaining fight.But it would be much worse for Conor.I think Tony is a better version of Nate.He has better chin, cardio and pressure than Nate.He also can check the leg kicks.Conor had to result to kicking and running to win a majority decision against Nate, which would not work against Tony who actually has leg kick defense.Conor was about to get stopped by Nate in round 3 where he was barely can keep his hands high.The pressure will be too much for Conor against Tony and he will submit him. Ferg's freakishly long arms are one of the reasons he can lock up chokes that other guys can't.

Also keep in mind all the crazy Imanari rolls and entries are in play for Tony vs Conor. There's no threat on the ground from Conor, so all those tools can be used liberally if that fight happens. Which give Conor all sorts of other things to think about. Conor is brilliant at utilizing and manipulating distance but if Tony tries to get the fight to the ground he doesn't have to do it with traditional entries. That really is a wild card in terms of how Conor tries to control the distance in the fight. Because he'll obviously want to avoid the ground like the plague vs Tony, so he'll have a ton on his plate to deal with in how unpredictable Tony's entries can be. Tony doesn't close distance like other guys do, esp against someone where he won't have to worry about them trying to get top control on him.
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Add in the fact Conor can't finish Tony outside the second round....and Conor running away when he gets tired, and you have a Tony finish...
 
20falarVerdades said:
Dude went 5 rounds in fuckking Mexico City( 2k meters altitude) with RDA and outworked him. Absolutely savage. Tony Ferguson is one of the best fighters to do ever step in the Octagon. These are all facts
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One of the most overrated fighters in MMA. Still is a top LW in the toughest division in MMA though, and that's one of the most impressive accomplishments you can have in MMA. Truth always lies somewhere in between!
 
Kobra420 said:
Suuuurre he does......"Dat left" is non existent after the second round.....
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Conor has only been past the 2nd round 3 times in 25 fights and he won 2 of those fights.

Literally the only time in Conor’s entire career where someone weathered the storm in the hopes to take him out in a later round was Floyd Mayweather, the greatest defensive boxer in history. Tony is not Floyd. Nor do MMA bouts even last as long as the Floyd fight did.
 
markg171 said:
Conor has only been past the 2nd round 3 times in 25 fights and he won 2 of those fights.

Literally the only time in Conor’s entire career where someone weathered the storm in the hopes to take him out in a later round was Floyd Mayweather, the greatest defensive boxer in history. Tony is not Floyd. Nor do MMA bouts even last as long as the Floyd fight did.
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Over a min of running in that round, and got gifted a win off of that?
Keep grasping pal.....Conor only has two rounds to beat ANY of his opponents, or he gasses, and run's....Hilarious you bring up the Floyd fight, when he got carried the entire fight until the ref saved him from getting knocked the fuck out..
 
We will see who's the best LW when

Tony fights Khabib
McGregor fights Tony
McGregor fights Khabib

These 3 Fighters needs to fight each other and all these fights will sell well. These 3 fighters are exiting and on the top of this stacked division.

McGregor = the insane striker
Khabib = the insane grappler
Tony = the insane allrounder

But I agree with that Tony is one of the best "Allround Fighter" with that creativity and cardio he brings in. He combines striking with grappling in a impressive way, very fluid. How he does it is probably one of the best in the current UFC. But he has one weakness he could be way to open. His defense against McGregor will bring McGregor to snipe him. Wich is a better Boxer after the Floyd fight but Tony is a Barbarian. Tony can loose rounds but he will still come forward and will not loose the focus. He can be bloody in the Face and u will see him how he turns up a darce choke up from the dark of el cucuy.

The Allrounder Abilities of Tony is quite impressive.
 
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DarkneT said:
He's by far the best LW in the world

The only person that can beat him is Conor imo
And I'll defend that with anyone that wants to go

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Khabib could very well beat him. Would be a very good match, and either guy could beat the other on any given night. But Khabib would easily give him his hardest fight at LW with his top tier wrestling/ grappling and suffocating style. Even more than Conor because all Tony has to do vs Conor is wait him out for 2 or 3 rounds until he gasses. Then it's a cakewalk from there. He has the chin and toughness to withstand Conor for a couple of rounds no doubt.
 
datsyuk said:
Khabib could very well beat him. Would be a very good match, and either guy could beat the other on any given night. But Khabib would easily give him his hardest fight at LW with his top tier wrestling/ grappling and suffocating style. Even more than Conor because all Tony has to do vs Conor is wait him out for 2 or 3 rounds until he gasses. Then it's a cakewalk from there. He has the chin and toughness to withstand Conor for a couple of rounds no doubt.
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The fat Russian?
That's never been in a 5 round fight

Don't talk wet
 
20falarVerdades said:
Dude went 5 rounds in fuckking Mexico City( 2k meters altitude) with RDA and outworked him. Absolutely savage. Tony Ferguson is one of the best fighters to do ever step in the Octagon. These are all facts
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Ferguson is good enough to make Conor not want to defend his LW belt, because he and everyone knows Ferguson would wreck him.
 
lol
it took so long for people to wake up on Ferguson
Tony is no joke, goat
 
I think at WW Ferguson vs RDA is even match, keep it mind that RDA was hurting himself by making that weight cut into LW.
 
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