Tony Ferguson says he didn’t accept late replacement, because UFC ‘wanted to cut my pay’

Tony Ferguson said he was willing to fight after Khabib Nurmagomedov dropped off UFC 209, but didn’t like what the UFC was offering.
“El Cucuy” said Friday on FS1’s weigh-in show that the UFC offered him less money to fight a replacement opponent, like Michael Johnson, in the UFC 209 co-main event and he turned it down. The interim lightweight title was also taken off the table, Ferguson said.
“They wanted to cut my pay,” Ferguson told interviewer Megan Olivi.