The Transcripts From Tony Ferguson & Khabib Nurmagomedov's Conference Call Yesterday Are Laugh Out Loud Funny

Yesterday, UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Tony Ferguson hopped on a conference call with the #1 contender for his title, Khabib Nurmagomedov, ahead of their bout at UFC 223, and complete and utter chaos ensued. They bickered back and forth like elementary school students for an hour, barely allowing the media to even get their questions in, and between Khabib’s broken English and Tony’s broken brain, they produced some HILARIOUS results. Let’s take a look at the transcripts (courtesy of MMAjunkie)…

The theme was set early. Khabib wanted Tony to know that he was stupid and could not be understood. Personally, I hate Ferguson and think he’s probably the worst, most cringeworthy trash talker in the game, so I loved the approach. Especially because Khabib literally doesn’t speak English as well as Tony, so the burn is that much worse.

Ferguson brought up tiramisu because he was trying to make a joke about Khabib not making weight the last time this fight was scheduled but I think it fell flat. It’s just a weird food to call out in that moment. Then we get classic third-grade banter to close the exchange with “Who said this?”…”I said this.” Moving on.

“This stupid guy is like, crazy.” made me spit out my coffee and I wasn’t even drinking any.

I love Tony Ferguson matter-a-facting Khabib by saying he had a valid excuse for pulling out of their first scheduled fight…he was letting a soccer player kick him as hard as he could with no pads. Duh. Only an idiot wouldn’t do that. What’s your excuse?

I can’t add any extra commentary to this to make it funnier. It’s comedic genius to the highest degree.

If we’re being honest I don’t even know what this means but I included it to show you guys how bad Tony Ferguson is at this “talking” thing. Finally, let’s move onto the grand finale:

The Eagle calls Tony out on his stupid “I’m working out right now!!!” bullshit by pointing out that they were literally on the phone. Not much exercising that can be done. Maybe he was vacuuming? Doing yoga? Possibly workin’ one of those weighted hula hoops?

Great back and forth between these two, best they’ve had yet (by a large margin), and best of all, it made me even more excited to watch Khabib ragdoll Tony around on April 7th.