Beneil Dariush is certain he heard Tony Ferguson’s knee pop during an attempted heel hook in the second round of their lightweight bout in the UFC 262 co-main event last night, but that ‘El Cucuy’ went into ‘zombie mode’ to survive the attack.
“I saw him grimace, and I went for the same thing, and he just went into zombie mode and started kicking me,” Dariush told reporters following his lopsided decision win over Ferguson (h/t Steven Marrocco of MMA Fighting). “I was like, ‘Fine, I’ll come on top, you jerk.’”
“How do you not tap to that heel hook?