“The fight has not been officially canceled yet, so I hope that Dana White will soon inform the venue of the UFC 249 tournament. Then we will return to our original plan and the fight with Ferguson will take place,” the specialist said on his YouTube channel.
According to him, if this does not happen, then he would like the fight to take place in September either in San Francisco or in Abu Dhabi.
“Habib is constantly training, but his training is far from ideal. It’s hard to maintain the training process under quarantine conditions, ”Mendes said.
On April 1, Nurmagomedov announced that the title fight with Ferguson, which was scheduled to take place on April 18 in New York as part of the main event of the UFC 249 tournament, was canceled because he could not fly away from Russia due to quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, their battle has been canceled for the fifth time since 2015.
Earlier, Magomed Ankalaev answered the question of whether it was worth thinking about holding the UFC 249 tournament in Russia.