Tony the type of guy who deserves to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.

God i miss prime Tony Ferguson

Regardless of belts and championships, this guy is loved by the people. If you see all his fights people are always on his side. That I think is worth more than any MMA belt.

@Makai77

14 күн бұрын

Well said. He was the undisputed people's champ during his prime LW run.

@William-Morey-Baker

13 күн бұрын

except it really isnt... do the fans leave a million dollars to his son? do they pay for his family after he dies? nope... but if he was champ he could provide for the future of his family...

@postmortemarg

12 күн бұрын

@@William-Morey-Baker You think a belt instantly gives you millions $? Plenty of people were champs and are now living normal, if not sub par, lives.

@tommanos2596

11 күн бұрын

#truth

@jemmysmith8661

2 күн бұрын

he beat his wife..

Met Tony at a UFC event I was working. He actually came up and spoke with me. He was extremely pleasant and friendly. He actually said hi I’m Tony about 5 minutes into conversation. I laughed and said I know who you are. He’s naturally talkative and I felt a really nice guy. Geez we all have our issues and problems don’t we? I wish him the very best in the future. I found him to be a real good guy. We ended up talking awhile that day. I really liked the guy. Tough and talks straight up. Hope to run into him again.

@William-Morey-Baker

13 күн бұрын

Schizophrenia is no joke... i feel for him, but MMA basically signed his death certificate

Took too much damage, caught up to him as he got older, nothing really to it

Mental illness combined with brain damage is the short version

This is THE man ... The original BMF no doubt the one guy in his division no one wanted to sign the contract for including McGregor himself in Tony's prime... His style is hard to maintain success much like early geatchie

Bad luck is what happened. tony the man! never forget this guy

it breaks my heart to watch tony get old ,losing a lot and doesn't want to quit

That blood and guts style can only last so long. It's sad to see Tony like this.

Tony the type of guy that needed a true friend in his life

Banger for sure Brother! I don’t watch the videos like this but you killed it! RESPECT ✊

@athletecentral1

14 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video Will. Much respect!🙏👊💪

Real fans of mma don't stop liking and respecting fighters because they reached that point that every fighter reaches if they keep fighting. That's not real life. Maybe people who watch because they have a gambling addiction or something, but not real fans.

I owned hostility mma. I signed his first contract. He’s one of a kind for sure

Time will forever be victories.

Khabib : i respect him as a fighter but his mind alil bit crazy 🤣

Sad; Fighters have a short shelf life. They rise for a few years, they shine for a few more, and then the cage is full of lions that are as young as they once were.

Great video!!

@athletecentral1

14 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video Kxxers! 🙏👊

Great video ! New watcher !

@athletecentral1

14 күн бұрын

Welcome Bakingcards, glad you enjoyed the video! 👊🙏

Tony is what Khabib would've become had he not retired

Don’t know why people say he’s a fan fav he’s an arsenal fan

[2:47] Ahh, I had damn near forgotten about that sketchy ass confrontation in the TUF crib. We literally almost lost Tony forever because he came alarmingly close to smashing his head straight through that glass table and bleeding out on the fighter house floor.

Poor tony. We love him, we want the best for him -- he can still fight at that level, but he needs a break to let his body recover. Goggins walking through pain on a tredmill is not the same as getting knee'd in the face. idgaf if he's a Navy Seal, that doesn't stop brain damage and Tony has taken more damage than Goggins ever has.

@JonnyAugz

8 күн бұрын

Tony needs to retire. It's BJ Penn and Chuck Liddell all over again.

Max stepped in and got revenge for El CuCuy on Gaethje though… I enjoyed that KO a little too much

I hope he gets okay! I don’t want this to be a too little to late ⏰

10:49. Actually, Khabib was in the states before lockdown and quickly left to get back to Russia. Then Ali had Tony fight Justin and the double weight cut (that was Tony’s fault) was the beginning of the end. Khabib did run though

He was always a wreck waiting to happen though, no boxing skills ,hands down chin up, Weird overtraining regime, anybody who knows fighting was just sitting back waiting to see what eventually happened to him, although he was an unusually tough durable guy it was inevitable that he would suffer from his style of taking damage.

@fellowtraveler2251

12 күн бұрын

Tony Ferguson is a testament of his era. He was a jiujitsu guy that could rely purely on his innate speed, cardio, pressure, and pace to physically break his opponents. When Gaethje came along, he exposed Tonys weaknesses on the feet: that being Tony gets hit alot. He could get away with it in the past because none of his previous opponents had hands like Justin, but he had never been up against a guy that could keep up with his pace, with viscious leg kicks, and that could crack as hard as Justin could. It also didn't help that Tony cut weight twice before he fought Gaethje. The reason he's fallen off so badly now is primarily because of career mismanagement. He puts himself through so much strenuous work and needlessly taxes his body in ways that won't help him be a better fighter (see the David Goggins camp), he basically never spars anymore, he's constantly switching camps, he never let his knee recover properly when he tore his ACL. And on top of all of that, the game passed him by. The El cucuy era was a unique moment in time. One that will never come back.

What happened to him? Gaethje happened to him. Weren’t you watching? Fighters with the age and experience that Ferguson had going into that fight cannot catch that many significant blows, and bounce back like it never happened. He wasnt in peak shape going is,g after the double weight cut. That could have possibly magnified the damage taken. Aside from him losing some of his chin tolerance, he had just gotten beat. Badly. Once a fighter gets figured out, it’s usually down hill from there. Future opponents will all know his vulnerabilities. They have seen the strategy used that has been proven to work.

Anybody that ever ask me bout this Fighter..I say he's one tough sun of a bitch..I've seen him take one hell of a beating and never giving up..then absolutely beating the shit outta the fighters he faced..1 of the greats

i was happy to see the beating justin gave him, i never liked his attitude. he also would never have beaten Khabib

Tony VS CM Punk is a fight that Tony could probably win

@CommandanteDiablo

12 күн бұрын

An untrained disabled 8 year old girl would win against cm Punk

nah succubus got him like George, only this one wasnt from the jungle, but from the mts of Dagestan 😂

The real ones remember prime tony. I’d have to tell my gf to stay out of the room when Tony fought 😂 she couldn’t stomach the site of blood

Tony Ferguson vs Connor.

There is no Sad truth about Tony. He got hyped due to Eddie Bravo saying he would be able to beat Khabib. Tony hype came from fans wanting to believe there was a fighter out there that could beat Khabib. Once that was gone Tony just dropped. He know longer had someone to go for. He used the i can beat Khabib narrative to fuel himself

Tony is schizophrenic. It’s sad. In the goggins video you can see the knee injured. Sad. Give him a win and let him retire. But I think they are gonna have to force him like Liddell

@procow2274

12 күн бұрын

Give him a win how? They already been lowering his level of competition. I mean i guess they could bring back cm punk or something... 🤔

@Keith_Mikell

12 күн бұрын

@@procow2274 more like give him a winnable fight which they do for someone about every card. Or they eliminate someone with a killer. Strickland is next they just need to find the killer.

@fellowtraveler2251

12 күн бұрын

At this point, with how shot his knees are and how clearly deranged that Tony is, the ethical thing for the UFC to do would be to cut Tony and then offer him a job as a media ambassador or something. Unfortunately the UFC isn't known for giving a shit about its fighters. They'll let Tony go on a 12 fight losing skid before they cut him.

@Keith_Mikell

12 күн бұрын

@@fellowtraveler2251 I agree. If you watch the goggins training you can see his knee fighting for stability.

If he doesn’t retire which he should I can’t see him winning another fight in the UFC

@cb-tz8og

10 күн бұрын

No way. He’s like Roy jones jr at this point. Fighters that didn’t deserve to be in there with him before will own him now. I he never fights again. If he does, I wont watch it.

SKIP The majority of the video has absolutely nothing to do with the title. Click Bait. Save your time and next it.

@timhall5382

12 күн бұрын

11:00 is when he finally gets to the Gaethje fight. Told you it was click bait why didn't you believe me?

Tony deserves the BMF belt

Tony isn't El Cucuy anymore sad😢

I think you got things mixed up at 7:28 you say khabib won the title against mcgregor then you say he defended his title at 10:28 against mcgregor but they only fought once I believe

@Notnac

14 күн бұрын

Yeah Conor and Khabib fought once. Khabib won against Al Laquinta to win Conor’s vacant belt because Conor had left the division then later defended that belt against Conor once he returned to the division

My dad was a paranoid schizophrenic. A lot of what they said about Tony’s paranoia was an instant reminder of how horrible that mental disorder can be when not treated properly. Very sad

Love Tony but he is 100% washed up, officially tied with BJ Penn at the highest loss streak in UFC history (7 losses)

Him vs Nick Diaz or Clay Quida

Connor's second belt fight look soooooo fake.

Not going to lie, i wish you would have actually explained the *specific* reasons behind Tonys decline, rather than just summarizing the history of his career. Because nobody seems to understand why he fell off so quickly after Justin Gathje. For those of you interested, allow me to save 13 minutes of your life since this AI narrated clickbait doesnt explain sh!t: The reasons why Tony fell off faster than BJ Penn is a biproduct of his declining mental health and poor career mismanagement. Tony has been engaging in loads of self sabotaging behavior since hes been stripped of the interim belt. He tore his ACL tripping on a cable and came back way too quickly before he was fully recovered. He cut weight twice in a row because...reasons. both these issues compounded together massively handicapped him against Gaethje, as his speed and power was diminished. Plus he did not have a sound game plan going into that fight. Tony spent 6 months getting ready to fight a grappler in Khabib, so instead of putting his grappling to use, he decides to stand and trade punches with him? During the fight, Gaethje exposed a huge hole in Tonys game: that Tony get hit a LOT. He doesnt have good striking defense, and against a heavy handed Gaethje, he took a mountain of unnecessary punishment. Many believe this to be what marked the beginning of the end for Tony, but i disagree. In his next 3 fights, Tony looked like Tony, but he let Olivera and Dariush crank submissions on his limbs and refused to tap because again...reasons. He got flatlin KOd by Chandler. And since then he has looked slower and less athletic over time and his fight IQ has diminished significantly. It also doesnt help that he doesnt listen to his peers, hes constantly changing camps, his skillset is out of date, he basically doesnt spar anymore...like at all. He spent the whole camp against Paddy training for a marathon rather than training for a fight. And so his fight IQ has deteriorated as well as a result. On top of all of that, because the losses keep piling, he has grown increasingly jaded, bitter, and stubborn. Unwilling to take feedback from anyone, unwilling to listen, unable to adapt, and as long as the UFC doesnt cut him, hes just going to keep fighting because its all he knows. It also doesnt help that hes getting older, but thats not the main reason that hes declined. Its all the other stuff mentioned thus far.

Type of guy to admit he's over rated

I wonder if that time before the gaethje fight and he thought somebody was in his walls he got medicated if that had an effect on him, he's lost every fight since.

@procow2274

12 күн бұрын

From what i read that was just one in a long line of incidents. This was a thing before that particular one that became famous

Im Tony's dad

Underdog mma superstar if he is not american he is dustbin fighter

Talking about him like he's dead lol

ATHLETIC, NOTHING SAD ABOUT TONY HE REPRESENTED HIS SELF DID FANTASTIC IN DA UFC IT'S ALL GOOD SAY NO MORE .

Habum nogetheadov ducked the prime Tony!!!!!

Punk azzz babieve

el cuckoo is washed for sure

Weak minded, he cannot handle his 🥃!

We always forgave Tony for being loony tunes because he was an animal.

You don't need to make a 13 min to explain what happened to Tony Ferguson, you can sum it up in literally one name. Justin Gaethje is what happened to TF, brain never the same again.