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Published 15:28 12 Dec 2016 GMT
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"I'm ready to sign on the dotted line and I think the UFC knows that. "And I think it needs to be for that belt. I don't think... it needs to be for that belt, damn it. Straight up, I've been putting in my time, I've been putting in my numbers. This is my time. "Let's get some heat going for this thing. Let's do this for The Ultimate Fighter. We can do Team Khabib versus Team Ferguson, that'd be dope. "Let's just throw it up for an interim belt. If he's gonna take a step out for a while then they need to throw an interim belt out there, have a champ out there and when he comes back he can be ready for that ass whooping which will be me."The UFC did set a precedent with McGregor in taking his featherweight belt off him as he had not defended it in 11 months. In fact, while McGregor was off fighting Nate Diaz at welterweight, the promotion created an interim title for Aldo and Frankie Edgar to scrap over at UFC 200. Everyone knows the winner of Ferguson and Nurmagomedov should be next in line for McGregor but, where 'The Notorious' is concerned, nothing is certain.
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