{"id":3615,"date":"2024-05-29T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:45:27","slug":"dana-white-announces-the-return-of-nick-diaz-and-tony-ferguson-from-the-ufc-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/dana-white-announces-the-return-of-nick-diaz-and-tony-ferguson-from-the-ufc-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White announces the return of Nick Diaz and Tony Ferguson from the UFC Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Ferguson will face Michael Chiesa on August 3rd at UFC Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UFC CEO Dana White announced two new fights for the promotion&#8217;s return to Abu Dhabi.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Legend and fan favorite\u00a0Nick Diaz will fight Vicente Luque on August\u00a03 in a 170-pound\u00a0fight. Michael Chiesa and Tony Ferguson will also face off in a welterweight bout on the same card.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diaz has competed just once since\u00a02015. He lost a fight to Robbie Lawler at UFC 266 and had done some questionable interviews in the lead-up to the fight suggesting he didn&#8217;t actually want to be fighting. Lugue is coming off a second-round TKO loss to\u00a0Joaquin Buckley in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">White did say that this might be Tony Ferguson\u2019s last fight, and I guess that\u2019s all we can hope for. Tony had one of the biggest falls from grace we\u2019ve ever seen in MMA. He went from a crazy 12-fight winning streak and being the biggest threat to Khabib Nurmagomedov, to getting absolutely shit kicked for seven fights in a row. That\u2019s right, he\u2019s lost seven fights back to back. Abu Dhabi could spell eight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\ud83d\udea8 \u062f\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u064a\u062a \u064a\u0639\u0644\u0646 \u0639\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0628\u0637\u0648\u0644\u0629 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCAbuDhabi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCAbuDhabi<\/a> \u0644\u0645\u062f\u0629 3 \u0623\u064a\u0627\u0645:<\/p>\n<p>\u0643\u0648\u0631\u064a \u0633\u0627\u0646\u062f\u0647\u0627\u062c\u0646 \ud83c\udd9a \u0639\u0645\u0631 \u0646\u0648\u0631\u0645\u0627\u063a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u062f\u0648\u0641<br \/>\u0646\u064a\u0643 \u062f\u064a\u0627\u0632 \ud83c\udd9a \u0641\u064a\u0633\u0646\u062a\u064a \u0644\u0648\u0643<br \/>\u062f\u064a\u0641\u064a\u0633\u0648\u0646 \u0641\u064a\u063a\u064a\u0631\u064a\u062f\u0648 \ud83c\udd9a \u0634\u064a\u062a\u0648 \u0641\u064a\u0631\u0627<br \/>\u0645\u0627\u0643\u0646\u0632\u064a \u062f\u064a\u0631\u0646 \ud83c\udd9a \u0644\u0648\u0628\u064a \u062c\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0632<br \/>\u062a\u0648\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a\u0631\u063a\u0633\u0648\u0646 \ud83c\udd9a \u0645\u0627\u064a\u0643\u0644 \u0643\u064a\u064a\u0632\u0627 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eTL3GsAVOk\">pic.twitter.com\/eTL3GsAVOk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1795866034970238997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing across from him is Michael Chiesa, who has been flirting with retirement for some time now. Chiesa has been doing his thing as an analyst, but he\u2019s dusting off the old gloves to tangle with Tony. Michael is on a three-fight losing skid that started with D\u2019arce loss to Vicente Luque in 2021, and ended with a D\u2019arce loss to Kevin Holland in 2023. There\u2019s a great chance that this is a double-retirement fight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for the rest of the undercard, Nick Diaz will also be returning to action to face ranked welterweight Vicente Luque. It does feel a bit strange to have Diaz and Ferguson on the same card without them competing against one another. Nick hasn\u2019t won a fight since 2011, and Tony is on an abysmal 0-7 run. Also on the Abu Dhabi card, Marlon \u201cChito\u201d Vera will\u00a0throw down\u00a0with former flyweight champ, Deiveson Figueiredo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Ferguson will face Michael Chiesa on August 3rd at UFC Abu Dhabi. UFC CEO Dana White announced two new fights for the promotion&#8217;s return to Abu Dhabi.\u00a0 Legend and fan favorite\u00a0Nick Diaz will fight Vicente Luque on August\u00a03 in a 170-pound\u00a0fight. Michael Chiesa and Tony Ferguson will also face off in a welterweight bout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,21,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-ufc-news","10":"category-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}