“My training camp was too long. I did not have to do weight twice. Plus, Justin is pretty damn good. I was preparing for a duel with Nurmagomedov, and not for a fight with a drummer. That was not supposed to happen. Be that as it may, I'm still in business. If the battle had not been interrupted, I would have reached the end, ”Ferguson said after the fight.
Gatgy defeated Ferguson by technical knockout in the fifth round of the main fight at UFC 249 in Jacksonville and became the first contender for the title fight with the current UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. For Ferguson, this defeat was the first in eight years.
It was previously reported that Gatgy threw out the belt of the UFC interim champion after defeating Ferguson.