Former UFC title challenger and Bellator lightweight champion, Michael Chandler, is preparing for a summer showdown against former interim UFC lightweight champ Tony Ferguson.
Chandler spoke with CBS Sports' Shakiel Mahjouri recently and revealed his focus is fully on fighting Ferguson next, hopefully during International Fight Week in either late June or early July, but he's hoping to make the fight sooner than that timeline as well.
"As far as how far along it is, I'm assuming that is my next fight sometime this summer," Chandler said. "I don't know the exact date or the location, but that's who I'm training for. That's who I'm watching film of. That's who I'm thinking of fighting. Getting in shape, laying a good groundwork, good foundation right now to go into a nice hard training camp for a fight this summer. I'm all systems go for a Tony Ferguson fight, so we'll see when we get the contract signed and get this thing, moved along, and get announced. I don't know if I want to wait till July, but I would definitely like to fight on International Fight Week. So maybe I go run through Tony before that and then I can fight again in July. We'll see."
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