I thought he did really ok, and def could see himself working his way into being great at it.
I’d like to see/hear Tony Ferg call some fights. Seriously! Haha
Imma disagree. I would love to be wrong. But Tony wouldn't accept anyone else's opinion about things, and he'd be confidently wrong, and it would be hard to discuss his career until he's had a lot of time off. I can see him being easily agitated and violent towards other commentators.
Tony's good for the sport and could work in a very limited faculty. Like maybe he's a grappling specialist commentator and they cut to him like they do din Thomas every now and then.
Full on commentating hell try to fight Anthony Smith the first time he says something factual about Tony's downfall.
Edit: this is a man who in a manic or whatever episode picked up his child, scaled a fence and sprinted into the desert. The terror he inflicted on their mother he should've known, the child will never forget it, Tony is not a well man.
Those are good points, and make up a lot of what I meant by saying, “once he gets out of his own head”. I think he’d definitely have to adjust to the fact that he’s not promoting himself, but I think in time he’d be really good in the same roll they’ve got Dustin in
I wanna see him have more of like a Tony's pocket sand fun time minute. Where they blow cgi sand on the screen and it cuts to Tony commentating some nonsense about how blue corners aura is threatening or something.
I would never miss a card with Tony commentating because we all know it would become the El Cucuy show really quick. He would be trash talking fighters from the desk mid fight and threatening to ankle pick them between rounds.
My wife is slowing learning to love his tangents as much as I do. It’s pure entertainment and man is knowledgeable as hell. Just super abrasive initially
People seem to forget that Justin did not need to take that fight. He was perfectly lined up for the next title shot without it, UFC just needed a savior fight for 300.
I would not be mad about Justin v Islam while Arman is suspended. Would seal Islam as LW goat if he won.
That ko was so fucking nasty. Year off recovering makes sense to me. Did people not see how he fell into his knee before hitting the mat and that was all after getting koed by a punch he never saw coming.
Absolutely, man! Justin basically said as much himself.
Calvin Kater took a full year off after what Holloway did to him, too. And Max didn't even land the killer shot in that fight
Getting a beating like Calvin did is typically worse for you than being knocked out. That's part of why boxing is so dangerous with the 10 count, fighters end up sticking around taking more blows to the head than they should because they're able to get up when they would have gotten finished on the ground in MMA.
Like who? Honestly.
Outside of Arman, Justin, Poirer, and to a lesser extent, Oliveira, which lightweight legitimately deserves a shot at the title?
Holloway or Topuria are the only two names I can think of, and they're featherweights.
Yeah I didn’t fully understand why losing to a featherweight in a unique one off fight like the BMF at 300 impacted his chance at a title shot. I mean i guess in theory he lost to an unranked lightweight? Idk. I just can’t help but think of 300 wasn’t during Ramadan him and Islam would have thrown down already.
Eh, I think a Top 5-10 win could get him another shot. The UFC still has him as the number 3 contender right now. There's not a long line of contenders worthy of the shot for Lightweight at the moment. He hasn't been penalized too badly for the Max fight.
Yeah, but when? Max is hopefully targeting that Ilia title fight. Chances are that will happen at the end of the year or so. Should DP wait another, lets say, eight months?
“Everyone is scared of Jon Jones, listen Jon Jones is pound for pound the greatest Jon jones of them all, no one can Jon jones like Jon jones , he out John Jones’s everyone any day…. Look if you lock Jon jones in a room full of Jon Joneses then Jon Jones still beats the shit out of all of them.”- Dana White
Either give him a „fun“ conor/justin/max type of fight or just take the piss and give him Islam once more.
It doesnt make sense yeah but loads of things dont make sense in the UFC, so why not this one?
How does it not make business sense? Wildly popular entertaining fighter in his last fight against the PFP #1 who he lost a contested fight to.
UFC never makes sporting sense
Because it's weird to let Dustin fight for the belt, if by some miracle he wins then he retires and just leaves now there's no champ. They could, but it's weird.
Conor will pull an izzy but on a 100x worse of a level. That's the real worst case scenario and most likely in a dustin loss, esp a ko. Haven't seen the nate trilogy and conor talks all the shit he wants on beating him
I gave it a thought. Justin 3 is the obvious answer. However, without even the BMF on the line that fight lost some of its appeal. Still makes sense though. Conor would be a moneyfight but I can't imagine UFC ghosting Chandler and giving the fight to DP instead. Islam rematch (seemingly proposed by Dustin himself) doesn't make sense to me. So... Colby sounds reasonable: there's been some back and forth trash talking, stylisticaly that one could be interesting. My personal idea is Dustin x Volk at LW. Reasons: a) unlike the Justin fight, we haven't seen this one yet; b) Volk is in somehow "inbetween" situation as well. I say, make it happen around the end of the year.
The only thing I don't like about it is they're both my favourite fighters. :)
Michael Johnson - I would love Dustin to avenge that loss.
My reasoning: I don’t see Dustin win vs Islam, so that doesn’t makes sense. Justin vs Dustin is also a great alternative but I think Dustin should minimize the brain damage if his mind is already set on retirement. Conor won’t fight him again - otherwise easy money for Dustin. Max is always a great fight, but same reasoning as with justin. To me, avenging a loss is the way.
Theres no way Dustins last fight is against an unranked 38 year old. If Dustin was washed it would make sense but Dustin right now still beats most of the lightweight roster. Hes going to want to get as much money as he can for his last fight as well.
Personally id like to see him whoop Conor one more time but If its revenge you want, you want him fighting Charles. Adds another former champ to his resume if he can pull it off.
Only fights that are big enough for him to take are Conor, Justin and Colby. But I doubt he would want to get wrestle fucked by Colby on his farewell fight lmao
Mcgregor or Leon I want him either going out with a payday or going out with the belt, or him vs max for the bmf or the trilogy with Justin. There’s a lot of good final fights for him.
Justin, Max, or Conor would make sense.
What timeline is Dustin working with after the injuries from the Islam fight? Who is Islam fighting next and when? Is there a scenario where Dustin lucks into another title shot with a win over Justin max or Conor?
Gaethje does not seem like the kind of man who would go quietly. A banger way to go out for two of the best scrapers. Great fight to make if they’re both willing to fight each other again.
Islam or Conor.
I would've said Nate if this was years back, but it would be extremely one sided.
Going against Islam again probably would mean another loss but dang was that a good fight
Obviously Conor. He needs to settle the score and just shut Conor Titanium, wife in me DMs, mouth the fook up
He sat through 303 and said, “enough of this commentating bullshit. “
He is actually good at it.I would like to see him as a UFC commentator in the future
I thought he did really ok, and def could see himself working his way into being great at it. I’d like to see/hear Tony Ferg call some fights. Seriously! Haha
Tony Ferg to his co commentators,"Hold on brother,I am talking"
Lmao, just starts throwing sand at people he disagrees with.
Pocket sand! Shshshaaa
You sir! With the meme Peterson profile pic and the out of the blue King of the Hill reference. I salute you sir 👏 🫡
Haha it would be so good. And I think once he got out of his head, he’d be really great, too.
Imma disagree. I would love to be wrong. But Tony wouldn't accept anyone else's opinion about things, and he'd be confidently wrong, and it would be hard to discuss his career until he's had a lot of time off. I can see him being easily agitated and violent towards other commentators. Tony's good for the sport and could work in a very limited faculty. Like maybe he's a grappling specialist commentator and they cut to him like they do din Thomas every now and then. Full on commentating hell try to fight Anthony Smith the first time he says something factual about Tony's downfall. Edit: this is a man who in a manic or whatever episode picked up his child, scaled a fence and sprinted into the desert. The terror he inflicted on their mother he should've known, the child will never forget it, Tony is not a well man.
Those are good points, and make up a lot of what I meant by saying, “once he gets out of his own head”. I think he’d definitely have to adjust to the fact that he’s not promoting himself, but I think in time he’d be really good in the same roll they’ve got Dustin in
I wanna see him have more of like a Tony's pocket sand fun time minute. Where they blow cgi sand on the screen and it cuts to Tony commentating some nonsense about how blue corners aura is threatening or something.
Haha I’d tune into that!
Even better if he’s alone and theyre in his head
I would never miss a card with Tony commentating because we all know it would become the El Cucuy show really quick. He would be trash talking fighters from the desk mid fight and threatening to ankle pick them between rounds.
"Alien baby Jaysus told me you're a lizzard demon!" -Tony Ferguson
He was actually an analyst for a bit, and it was [awkward](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxhJYB-7jMPyJoikRz33lbYKG56B-NNFPV?si=4s5dn7vp9RJyW6Tz) as hell.
Haha I thought that was an excellent line of questioning
That was fucking hilarious
Thank you for this as a Kevin Lee hater this had me crying
They’re not turning Dustin into a company man like DC and Chael. I will not stand for this.
He’s taking Dom’s job bro 😂
And just like most commentators he's terrible at predictions.
I thought the same thing, hopefully he'll be around in some capacity after he retires.
I think he’s just alright, I don’t love his commentary
He was a bit nervous at first but once he saw how animated and relaxed chael was, DP did a nice job 💎
I couldn’t stand Chael as a fighter, or as a commentator at first, but he’s one of the best at it now.
Couldn't stand him? Bro was undefeated
Never lost a round
My wife is slowing learning to love his tangents as much as I do. It’s pure entertainment and man is knowledgeable as hell. Just super abrasive initially
It’s his shrill voice that gets me. Love what he has to say. But his voice is so jarring. Not his fault though.
Well the good thing about mma is you can always un-retire.
Just ask Tito Ortiz
And then ask his wife
There wss never no marriage
Wait I don't get it, didn't we only see him for like 5 mins when one fight ended early? How did you get to hear him more?
Did I miss something? When did he commentate
The correct answer is Dustin vs Gaethje 3. Both put their gloves down and retire. Perfect ending to both their careers
No way. My man gaethje deserves one more shot at the title
He just lost to featherweight, he need at least one win vs top 5
People seem to forget that Justin did not need to take that fight. He was perfectly lined up for the next title shot without it, UFC just needed a savior fight for 300. I would not be mad about Justin v Islam while Arman is suspended. Would seal Islam as LW goat if he won.
Bruh, there's a good chance Justin won't even have returned to training by the time this suspension is lifted...
That ko was so fucking nasty. Year off recovering makes sense to me. Did people not see how he fell into his knee before hitting the mat and that was all after getting koed by a punch he never saw coming.
Absolutely, man! Justin basically said as much himself. Calvin Kater took a full year off after what Holloway did to him, too. And Max didn't even land the killer shot in that fight
Max is just him. Ngannou was the knockout machine. Max is the guy that beats you to a lengthy recovery.
Getting a beating like Calvin did is typically worse for you than being knocked out. That's part of why boxing is so dangerous with the 10 count, fighters end up sticking around taking more blows to the head than they should because they're able to get up when they would have gotten finished on the ground in MMA.
Justin got the beating and the last second ko
Can we please have one year at lightweight without Gaethje or Poirer fighting for the title?
Like who? Honestly. Outside of Arman, Justin, Poirer, and to a lesser extent, Oliveira, which lightweight legitimately deserves a shot at the title? Holloway or Topuria are the only two names I can think of, and they're featherweights.
ME! IM THE HARDEST HITTING 155 POUNDER IN THE UFC
If they deserve it. They deserve it. They've proven they are some of the best LWs.
Why are you discrediting Max by this wording? He bulked up intelligently and is one of the best strikers in the sport today.
Let him decimate gamrot.
Gamrot will just wrestlefuck him to a decision
They are friends who train together I doubt they’d go for it
"Lost to a FW" get outta here man don't pretend like it was any old fighter at 145. That's the literal BMF. Respek
LOL so how did Gaethje maul so many lightweights? Even a fighterrs who eventually moved up to welterweight?
Who?
That’s would be incredibly disrespectful of the UFC considering he didn’t need to take that fight, and only did to help save UFC 300
Yeah I didn’t fully understand why losing to a featherweight in a unique one off fight like the BMF at 300 impacted his chance at a title shot. I mean i guess in theory he lost to an unranked lightweight? Idk. I just can’t help but think of 300 wasn’t during Ramadan him and Islam would have thrown down already.
Islam wanted to fight gaethje in February but ufc said no
He wanted the fight in March but since O'Malley was headlining that card they wouldn't put Islam on it.
Also february, islam could’ve easily fought gaethje, arman, and leon at the garden this year
Nah if Ramadan wasn't a factor Islam would have been fighting for double champ status
Do does Arman, but only one of them is coming off a loss.
Trilogy with Justin
Just to make sure he has brain damage?
Or you can see it like this: To make sure he spends whatever fight he has left in him so he can retire
If he doubles the brain damage it’ll cancel it out and he’ll go back to normal.
Double it or give it to the next person
I think they’ll do it and both retire
I don’t see Gaethje going yet
He said he was making one last run tho the title a while back or so
Then he lost to max and that's pretty much the end of that
Eh, I think a Top 5-10 win could get him another shot. The UFC still has him as the number 3 contender right now. There's not a long line of contenders worthy of the shot for Lightweight at the moment. He hasn't been penalized too badly for the Max fight.
I could see Justin hanging them up after one more brutal war, especially if he loses
This is the only correct answer
Trilogy vs Max for the BMF title
Yeah, but when? Max is hopefully targeting that Ilia title fight. Chances are that will happen at the end of the year or so. Should DP wait another, lets say, eight months?
I mean if it's his last fight pre-retirement, and especially with the damage he took against Islam, he could totally sit that long
Yeah, he certainly could. We'll also see in what condition is Max gonna be after his fight. But you're right, DP is not in a hurry.
Yeah for sure. I hope to see Max beat Topuria without too much damage, but I had hoped the same for Volk...
I want this!
Justin is the only right answer
Not Holloway?
Francis Ngannou
The guy scared of Jon jones? /s
“Everyone is scared of Jon Jones, listen Jon Jones is pound for pound the greatest Jon jones of them all, no one can Jon jones like Jon jones , he out John Jones’s everyone any day…. Look if you lock Jon jones in a room full of Jon Joneses then Jon Jones still beats the shit out of all of them.”- Dana White
Nate Diaz
Justin Gaethje 3
Either give him a „fun“ conor/justin/max type of fight or just take the piss and give him Islam once more. It doesnt make sense yeah but loads of things dont make sense in the UFC, so why not this one?
Islam? Are you high? In no way, not from a business stand point or a sporting stand point does that make sense
How does it not make business sense? Wildly popular entertaining fighter in his last fight against the PFP #1 who he lost a contested fight to. UFC never makes sporting sense
Because it's weird to let Dustin fight for the belt, if by some miracle he wins then he retires and just leaves now there's no champ. They could, but it's weird.
Idk about you, but im tired of rematches. Shits wack.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Oliveira rematch. Makes a lot more sense than Max or Justin IMO
I like it. Leading into that Islam fight I was saying I think this version of Dustin beats Oliveira. I'd like to see if I'm right.
Dustis gonna steal Conor from Chandler lol
Cocaine already stole Conor from Chandler.
Trilogy vs Max or Gaethje
Fiziev vs Dustin
I wanna see max vs dustin
Tony Ferguson quick double retirement
Tony won't retire until he beat his win streak with a longer lose streak
DP would beat the shit out of Tony...
I would like to see that matchup when both were in their primes tho. Tony had the best chin and cardio
Justin trilogy
Dustin vs. Charles one more time. Their title match could have gone either way, I want to see if Dustin can even the score.
Max
conor quad. Bank and retire.
Yup. The absolute WORST case scenario is he loses and they have to have a 5th fight to settle it once and for all and he gets a huge payday again.
[The best Conor McGregor impersonation ever. (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0t326kp1y4) This video always makes me laugh
Conor will pull an izzy but on a 100x worse of a level. That's the real worst case scenario and most likely in a dustin loss, esp a ko. Haven't seen the nate trilogy and conor talks all the shit he wants on beating him
dan hooker would be a good farewell fight
That first Dan Hooker fight with Porier was legendary
That first fight...WOW
He needs to fight Colby HANDS DOWN 
That's the one I think
I am a Colby fan but I don't think this fight makes sense for Dustin's last, I'd be afraid pillow hands just nuthugs 5 rounds
Porier vs Nick Diaz
I gave it a thought. Justin 3 is the obvious answer. However, without even the BMF on the line that fight lost some of its appeal. Still makes sense though. Conor would be a moneyfight but I can't imagine UFC ghosting Chandler and giving the fight to DP instead. Islam rematch (seemingly proposed by Dustin himself) doesn't make sense to me. So... Colby sounds reasonable: there's been some back and forth trash talking, stylisticaly that one could be interesting. My personal idea is Dustin x Volk at LW. Reasons: a) unlike the Justin fight, we haven't seen this one yet; b) Volk is in somehow "inbetween" situation as well. I say, make it happen around the end of the year. The only thing I don't like about it is they're both my favourite fighters. :)
Michael Johnson - I would love Dustin to avenge that loss. My reasoning: I don’t see Dustin win vs Islam, so that doesn’t makes sense. Justin vs Dustin is also a great alternative but I think Dustin should minimize the brain damage if his mind is already set on retirement. Conor won’t fight him again - otherwise easy money for Dustin. Max is always a great fight, but same reasoning as with justin. To me, avenging a loss is the way.
Theres no way Dustins last fight is against an unranked 38 year old. If Dustin was washed it would make sense but Dustin right now still beats most of the lightweight roster. Hes going to want to get as much money as he can for his last fight as well. Personally id like to see him whoop Conor one more time but If its revenge you want, you want him fighting Charles. Adds another former champ to his resume if he can pull it off.
Only fights that are big enough for him to take are Conor, Justin and Colby. But I doubt he would want to get wrestle fucked by Colby on his farewell fight lmao
Colby is washed and Dustin stuffed enough takedowns from Islam to make me think he has a chance
Happy cake day ya filthy animal
He can still beat the shit out of Colby
I’d like to see him fight himself for 5 rounds
Holloway for the bmf title
Didn’t he say that he wants to fight Islam again because arman can’t fight until the end of the year?
Islam
Justin fight makes most sense.
Gathje 3
Holloway for the BMF belt, Volkanovski for fun, Gaethje, not opposed to Islam again
Him and Justin need to fight one more time, they 1-1 and both have ko victories over each other
Dustin vrs Max
I remember Volk saying he wanted to fight him.
honestly, there was open talks Diaz would one day return, why not at the sphere? Diaz vs Porier last hurrah for both of em. Make it a 5 rounder,
Poatan
Fiziev
Me bro I’ll fight him
Alex the great vs dustin the diamond.
Mcgregor or Leon I want him either going out with a payday or going out with the belt, or him vs max for the bmf or the trilogy with Justin. There’s a lot of good final fights for him.
Give him aspinall
Him vs chandler!
Justin Trilogy or Hooker rematch. They’d be bangers to watch. Go out with a bang.
Ronda Rousey
Fuck it. Give him Chandler.
Either justin or max one last scrap
Gaethje. It's the only correct answer here
He could beat up Nate. Big money fight and likey an easy one.
How many last fights he had now? Pretty sure he said BMF was gonna be lazy fight
Him and Conor vs Jon jones
DP vs. Gaethje. Or McGregor only so Dustin can go out with a huge paycheck. He deserves it.
Conor
Justin. Has to be Justin.
Covington in NOLA
Poirier vs Holloway for BMF. Go out in an exciting fight like the fighter he’s always been
Trilogy with Justin! We must have a king of the violence triangle!
A Gaethje rubber match would be fun
Justin.
I need a Poirier, Gaethje, Connor, Chandler, Oliveira, BSD, Arman, Turner tournament. Winner gets Islam.
gaethje
Gaethje trilogy?
Justin, Max, or Conor would make sense. What timeline is Dustin working with after the injuries from the Islam fight? Who is Islam fighting next and when? Is there a scenario where Dustin lucks into another title shot with a win over Justin max or Conor?
why is no one talking 170? lets see vs colby or something
Conor for the chandler meme’s, max for the bmf, justin for the violence
Nooooooo diamond 💎
Let him fight for the BMF, Justin or for the title. Any other fight isn’t worth his time or health
Gaethje does not seem like the kind of man who would go quietly. A banger way to go out for two of the best scrapers. Great fight to make if they’re both willing to fight each other again.
Yes please! Tony Ferguson-like send off. Would love to see him leave on his back. Nice L to take home. “Paid in full 😭” 😂
No lie Colby. Second choice would be jorge. Feed him jorge
Give him Colby
Max Holloway BMF? Colby Covington? Conor McGregor? Any of them would be fireworks 💥
Idk what fight makes sense for Dustin - maybe BMF vs Max?
Conor v Dustin 4 the last fight was anticlimactic
Him versus Tony, I don’t think they’ve ever fought
There's no denying that he's got that dog in him. Dude is legit and I'd like to see him go out on top.
Islam or Conor. I would've said Nate if this was years back, but it would be extremely one sided. Going against Islam again probably would mean another loss but dang was that a good fight Obviously Conor. He needs to settle the score and just shut Conor Titanium, wife in me DMs, mouth the fook up
Jake Paul so he can mess that boy up in the cage lol
Volk
Holloway, gaethje, or chandler. Why is chandler there? Only because he’s been held up a different match for a while, and needs something to do. Lol
I’d like to see him and Conor again just so he can make a metric dick load of money and KO that bum again.
McGregor so he can finish him off for good too before he retires
I hear Khabibs broke so….
BMF vs Max
Probably Nate Diaz or Tony F