Lightweight contender Tony Ferguson has publicly called out rival Conor McGregor for the first time since his brutal defeat to Justin Gaethje at UFC 249, repeating his claim that the Irishman is soft via a social media animation.
The former interim champion showed himself running with a wolf and a bear before producing an animation changing the look of a title scene from video game Grand Theft Auto to namecheck his private Snapdown City gym in Los Angeles where he trains before fights.
He then used the callout video to variously portray himself as a bloodied gangster, chart topper Drake, and the grim reaper, selecting opponents from a lineup of UFC fighters with their faces on doors in a corridor.
His sequence imitating the rapper showed Ferguson looking down at a takeaway box of Chicken McNuggets – namechecking his favorite putdown to McGregor, which he once explained he had dreamed up because his adversary was "made of that fake s**t – that pink stuff from McDonald's that nobody wants."
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'Make UFC great again': Ferguson targets McGregor scrap by calling out 'McNuggets' rival with Grand Theft Auto-style clip
Lightweight contender Tony Ferguson has publicly called out rival Conor McGregor for the first time since his brutal defeat to Justin Gaethje at UFC 249, repeating his claim that the Irishman is soft via a social media animation.
