“I’m going to embarrass him,” Ferguson said. “I don’t want to hurt the guy, I’m going to embarrass him. So he’s got one chance to sit down, quit and walk away.”
“I’m going to put him on his back, I’m going to take him down. You think he’s been preparing any rubber guard? I hope so, but I don’t think so. He’s got no flexibility, his right knee is a bum knee,” Ferguson said. “His conditioning is weak and his body, he’s really had a lot of problems with his weight cut. So where do you think I’m going to go with my punches? There’s no secret, I’m going to punish his body. Then I’m going to go upstairs, I’m going to take him down, I’m going to go knee-on-belly, I’m going to put my hand on his throat and I’m going to hold my hand up like a [expletive] wolverine claw and I’m going to tell him to [expletive] quit.”
“I’ve prepared for this guy a couple times already and nothing’s really changed,” said the Californian Ferguson. “I’m going to bring it. I’m not going to be scared to use wrestling, and I think I’ve been sandbagging my wrestling for everyone for so damn long — and my boxing and my Muay Thai — that everybody forgot that I’m actually a great stand-up fighter. I beat one of the world’s best in Edson Barboza and I outstruck him.”
“The opponent we have right now typically is a sambo style fighter and he’s very tough and has a strong head on his shoulders, but I just see that he’s weak in so many different departments that he had to hire a bigger team and really needed more time,” Ferguson said. “If the dude was ready, he would have fought me in May, I gave him that opportunity. But he wanted to go fight somebody else. You don’t want to fight me, you never did.”
“Half of his fights were only two-round fights. These weren’t sanctioned three-round fights. His conditioning hasn’t even been tested yet. You want to go into deep waters, son, you’re going to fight the kraken. I’m no longer a hammerhead, I’m the [expletive] kraken. I’m the guy that’s going to have the longest limbs, I’m going to ankle-pick you, I’m going to put you on your back, I’m going to spin you around like a turtle and I’m going to go knee-on-belly and I’m going to give you one chance with my arm around your neck and I’m going to look at like you like a wolverine. ‘Cause I am a Michigan wolverine and a California grizzly, now when you have those two, you have an El Cucuy. I’m straight up going to put rocks in his face and he’s going to have a hard time to accept that loss, that’s for damn sure.”
“I think a lot of these fighters when they fight a guy like Khabib, they’re not just fighting Khabib, they’re fighting their following. I mean, how many million followers does he have? You can’t hate on that, this is a sport and a competition. I think we need to clean it up a, little bit, I think the trash talk has gone a little too far in some cases like McGregor, but I can’t speak for anybody else, only thing I can do is speak for myself and really, really work hard and literally do what I do best.”
“I built my academy with my bare hands, I own my own academy now which is great, I’m in a great facility, I’m in a good spot near the ocean with a good breeze. There’s really no complaints here. During camp, I’ve really had a lot of fun. I’m going for my NASM and going back to school so my kid can actually see me reading a book and doing these things so growing up, he knows fighting is not it. When he hits the bag, I’m like, ‘No, go grab the golf clubs, kid.’
“I fight so he doesn’t have to, that’s the ultimate truth. I do my thing and I’ll get punched in the face, but that’s only if I want to.”
