Fight Nurmagomedov and Ferguson offered to carry out in Minsk

Federation of hand-to-hand fight and the mixed single combats of Belarus offered to the organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to carry out fight of Habib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson in Minsk. This is reported by the Sport24. The title fight of UFC between the acting champion in lightweight Habib Nurmagomedov and the American applicant Tony Ferguson was supposed to take place on April 18 in New York. On April 1 it became known that fight won t take place the Russian fighter won t be able to fly to the USA due to closure of borders due to outbreak of coronavirus. The executive director of Federation of hand-to-hand fight and the mixed single combats of Belarus Maxim Korolkov declared that the Belarusian organization made an official offer of UFC on carrying out champion fight in Minsk. Of course, before that we got the support of our state in the person of the Ministry of Sports of Belarus and management of affairs of the president. When we received consent, made UFC such offer, Korolkov explained. He added that fight Nurmagomedov and Ferguson can be organized on several platforms, including Minsk Arena complex and Dynamo Stadium. Positive answer from UFC we didn t receive yet. Let's be realistic, time's gone. A week before the tournament, few will choose a location. But if we will call tomorrow and tell that want to organize tournament at us, I think, by April 18 we will prepare everything, the representative of Federation of hand-to-hand fight and the mixed single combats of Belarus summed up. As previously reported by the news agency, on April 2 Habib Nurmagomedov declared that is ready to meet Tony Ferguson at one of the next UFC tournaments in August in San Francisco or in September in Abu Dhabi.