UFC: Tony Ferguson’s coach reveals game plan vs Khabib – ‘we’ll set traps, all sorts of them’
- Eddie Bravo promises to ‘pull Khabib into uncharted territory’ in UFC 249 title fight
- ‘All you need to know is D’arces and elbows. Those D’arces are coming from everywhere’
Tony Ferguson has a masterplan to beat Khabib Nurmagomedov – and it involves lots of D’arce chokes and elbows, according to his jiu-jitsu coach.
Eddie Bravo revealed some of Ferguson’s tactics for the huge UFC 249 lightweight title fight in Brooklyn on April 18 during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.
“We've been preparing for Khabib for a long time, like for the [Rafael] Dos Anjos fight we were preparing for him,” Bravo said last weekend on the JRE Fight Companion during UFC Auckland. “But we are always preparing for the worst case scenario – and Khabib is the worst case scenario.
“He is probably the best ground and pound wrestler ever, right? This is the toughest challenge ever in MMA for 10th Planet, that's for sure.”
Khabib is undefeated at 28-0, but just like the Russian champion, Ferguson (25-3) is riding a 12-fight win streak in the UFC.