Overview

• Ferguson vs. Salt Papi is scheduled for August 30 at Manchester’s AO Arena on MF & DAZN X Series 22, billed for an interim Misfits middleweight title.
• Salt Papi (Nathaniel Bustamante) is a Misfits mainstay with a reported 6-2 record and a three-fight winning run.
• Ferguson, 41, says he feels newly motivated and prefers boxing’s Queensberry rules where he does not have to defend takedowns or chokes.
• Former UFC official John McCarthy has cautioned that Ferguson may struggle in a pure boxing match and called him a significant underdog.
• The event streams on DAZN and is headlined by Darren Till vs. Luke Rockhold, with other crossover attractions including Dillon Danis.