‘I’ll beat you to a pulp’: Conor McGregor LAUGHS at Tony Ferguson’s physique after rival makes weight for cancelled Khabib combat

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Conor McGregor has mocked Tony Ferguson after the American posted a video of himself making weight the day earlier than his scheduled combat with Khabib Nurmagomedov – the headline bout of the UFC 249 card which was cancelled final week.

As anticipated by pundits and followers, Ferguson continued to take the weigh-in critically within the eight days after his problem to Nurmagomedov’s title fell foul of an inevitable cancellation, and stepped onto the scales to showcase his physique on Friday afternoon.

The light-weight champion and his opponent would have been required to return in at a most of 155lb had their assembly gone forward on Saturday, and Ferguson accomplished his sequence of progress posts on social media by exhibiting himself registering the precise restrict for the combat.

“You may be crushed to absolutely the nucleus pulposus once I get you, child,” laughed a predictably unimpressed McGregor on Twitter, having once more supplied congratulations to Ferguson for an “wonderful victory” in an insinuation that Nurmagomedov may have taken the combat.

McGregor, who was touted as a alternative for Nurmagomedov by followers feeling wildly hopeful within the build-up to the cancellation, accompanied his phrases with a screenshot from Ferguson’s video exhibiting the challenger trying gaunt, beforehand including: “Let’s have the opposite man on the size, please.”

Wanting extra muscular in his Instagram clip, Ferguson appeared all the way down to the scales and noticed “there it’s” earlier than elevating his fists to the digicam in satisfaction, ending what he referred to as a “apply weight minimize” and thanking his supporters.

With no contest to sit up for within the foreseeable future, he has stored these followers intrigued by sharing frequent updates on his coaching and diet, providing an perception into the depth and self-discipline required to make weight and put together for an elite encounter.

Ferguson has continued to share the hashtag of UFC 249, serving to to maintain alive the fanciful concept that the occasion may have gone forward throughout a world pandemic that made the probabilities of any combat going down distant, not to mention one with a champion grounded in Russia.

McGregor enhanced his claims as a contender to Nurmagomedov by beating Donald Cerrone inside a spherical at UFC 246 in January, however has largely resisted probabilities to taunt the person who beat him in 2018 and their rivals in current weeks, concentrating as a substitute on how his native Eire is coping with the well being disaster.

He marked the ninth anniversary of the quickest win of his profession by responding to a clip on Thursday that confirmed him beating Paddy Doherty in 2011, and has engaged in vigorous discussions with coach John Kavanagh and singer Sinead O’Connor over well being measures through the previous week.

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Whereas athletes and MMA followers predominantly applauded Ferguson’s footage, McGregor’s publish sparked a barrage of feedback and memes declaring which of the 2 would win a combat between them now.

One wrote: “Undecided what Conor is saying however I feel it’s one thing about Tony trying drained at 155. Joke’s on Conor although as a result of now Tony goes to re-hydrate in time to take extra photos for combat evening tomorrow.”

UFC President Dana White claimed he was on the point of finalizing a brand new location and headline combat for UFC 249 earlier than being pressured to substantiate the cancellation within the wake of a succession of fighters pulling out amid restricted journey and well being considerations through the world pandemic.

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