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Tony Ferguson knocks Khabib’s ‘lazy, one-dimensional’ performance against Dustin Poirier at UFC 242

On Saturday night at UFC 242, Khabib Nurmagomedov kept his undefeated record intact with a third-round submission win over Dustin Poirier. The win also marks his second successful title defense since winning the belt at UFC 223 in April 2018.

The win only solidifies Khabib’s status as the most dominant 155-pound fighter in the world today, and a notable name among the elites in MMA today. But for Tony Ferguson, it wasn’t a performance to give mad props to.

“Lazy. One-dimensional,” Ferguson said of Khabib’s UFC 242 performance on Monday’s episode of the Ariel Helwani MMA Show (transcript by BJPenn.