Ivan OrekhovCorrespondent SportAll materialsMany famous fighters did not manage to interrupt their careers in time, for which they eventually paid the price. There are too many such sad cases in mixed martial arts, so let's focus on fresh stories without a happy ending. Tony Ferguson It's hard to believe that Tony was once called the «main threat» to Khabib Nurmagomedov's legacy. El-Kukuy ground his opponents to powder, filled a 12-match winstreak and even took a temporary championship belt. Only with the title of the absolute champion, the paths diverged: in 2020, Tony lost hard to Justin Gati and lost the image of the terrible Boogeyman. Now Ferguson is losing to everyone left and right. After Gati, the American lost by unanimous decisions to Charles Oliveira and Benil Dariush, and in May he completely flew into a terrible knockout after meeting Michael Chandler's leg.
