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2nd January 2017
11:09pm GMT

"Tony Ferguson have nine-fight in streak. He deserve it too. That's why I want him up close. I want to beat Tony Ferguson, take interim bullshit belt and after fight with Conor for real belt. This is what I want in 2017."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/816049403870015488 With the UFC looking to break into the massive Russian market this year, Nurmagomedov looks to be the perfect posterboy to build up the promotion in that region. He believes he has the requisite profile to headline a card on home territory, but if he gets matched up against McGregor he would like to go on a world tour with 'the Notorious' to promote the event, much like Jose Aldo did for UFC 189.
"I am famous in Russia and we have to say Conor is famous in Russia too. If UFC make a promo tour all over the world like Rio de Janeiro, Las Vegas, New York, Toronto, London, Moscow, Tokyo, everywhere make this PR programme." "After this UFC give me and Conor three months for preparing and make this 80,000 arena in Moscow, I think 100% we can sell all these tickets."Before everyone starts getting excited about the prospect of seeing McGregor playing up the Rocky IV comparisons on a huge tour across the globe (surely he'll recruit a robot butler) it's important to note that none of the necessary requirements are in place to make this fight happen. Nurmagomedov hasn't defeated Ferguson for the 'interim bullshit belt', hell, they haven't even set a fight date yet, the UFC hasn't secured a Russian event, we don't know how willing the new owners would be to splash out on an expensive world tour and most importantly, McGregor hasn't given much clues about his next move yet. However, we do know that the UFC are trying their best to get into Russia and Dana White cited Nurmagomedov vs McGregor as a potential fight to headline the country's first UFC card, so we'll live in hope.
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