Video: Tony Ferguson: [Conor McGregor] needs to defend or vacate

“I don’t care, this a chess match and this is check. It’s going to be checkmate soon. He has nowhere else to run. Literally he’s running out of time. He needs to defend or vacate.”
Tony Ferguson

It’s been a long road to the top for former Ultimate Fighter winner Tony Ferguson, but Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, “El Cucuy” finally struck gold, submitting Kevin Lee in the third round of their UFC 216 main event to win the interim UFC lightweight championship.

The win was Ferguson’s 10th in a row, and none was bigger, but as soon as he received his belt, he sent a message to the 155-pound champion, Conor McGregor.