{"id":997153,"date":"2019-11-30T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=997153"},"modified":"2019-11-30T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T17:42:23","slug":"tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_727365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727365\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img alt=\"Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-727365\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2017\/08\/810961304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/810961304.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/810961304-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/810961304-820x547.jpg 820w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/810961304-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-727365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAS VEGAS, NV &#8211; JULY 9: Tony Ferguson in the audience during the UFC 213 event at T-Mobile Arena on July 9, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Rey Del Rio\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before &#8211; Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson are signed up to fight each other. The two have been lined up to fight each other four times in the past, so perhaps fifth times the charm?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/28191508\/tony-ferguson-signs-fight-khabib-nurmagomedov-april-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN was first<\/a> to report this latest kick at the Khabib-Tony can, which is scheduled to take place April 18th in Brooklyn&#8217;s Barclays Center (more than likely it will be UFC 249). This time it&#8217;ll be for Nurmagomedov&#8217;s UFC Lightweight Championship. Ferguson was also the lightweight champion at one time, albeit an interim one.<\/p>\n<p>Khabib most recently defended his strap against Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 in September. El Cucoy stopped Donald Cerrone his last time in the octagon, back in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before &#8211; Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson are signed up to fight each&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":909345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12504,543583741],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-30T17:42:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/usatsi_11394160-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-30T17:42:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-30T17:42:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/usatsi_11394160-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"MMA\",\"MMA Manifesto\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/tony-ferguson-to-challenge-khabib-nurmagomedov-in-april-fox11\/\",\"name\":\"Tony Ferguson to Challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov in April - 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