Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim lightweight champion, Tony Ferguson, recently told his social media followers that fight news was “coming soon,” but it sounds like “El Cucuy” was not referring to a potential Octagon comeback.
Ferguson is reportedly “in talks” with Global Fight League (GFL).
“I’ve heard a couple of names tossed around, the one that interests me the most is Tony Ferguson,” longtime rival and former UFC lightweight, Kevin Lee, told Ariel Helwani. “He’s had his ups and downs in his career but we’ve had a great fight for the UFC championship and I think that’s something that a lot of people can get behind and that’s a fight that I really, really want. He’s in talks with them.”
Ferguson defeated Lee by triangle choke at UFC 216 to win the substitute strap.
Ferguson, who turns 41 in just a few weeks, dropped his eighth straight loss by getting strangled into submission by Michael Chiesa as part of the UFC Abu Dhabi fight card last August. Despite repeated calls for his retirement — and the surrendering of one glove — it appears “El Cucuy” is not ready to walk away from MMA just yet.
GFL will stage its first event on April 4, according to Lee.
