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“100 per cent I think this is real title fight,” Nurmagomedov said, speaking about this weekend’s fight with Ferguson. “I don’t care about him [McGregor], you guys know his Uncle Dana give him a gift. He jumped over all contenders and he fought for the title. I do not understand this fight [McGregor vs. Alvarez], he catch him a few times and he falls down—to me this is a fake fight."
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...rez-fixed-ufc-209-tony-ferguson-a7607201.html
I'm not the only one who had questions about that fight. I even made a topic about it and it got deleted for expressing my opinion.
I think he's wrong but if the UFC has fixed a fight this would be probably the most likely one given how much money was on the line with Conor winning and being 155 champ versus Conor not winning. Since Conor defended against Khabib, Khabib would also be in the know if maybe they tried to put their fingers on the scale for Conor that time too. Willing to listen but Alvarez got carried to a title shot too it's not like they had it in for Eddie.
Generally I buy Dana's line about the risk not being worth the reward, he's right getting caught would bring down everything. But seeing the PPV depression and Conor's numbers it's enough to give the tin foil hat a try.

