Misfits Boxing closed out its calendar Saturday with Misfits Mania in Dubai, UAE. In doing so, Tony Ferguson also kept his momentum alive heading into 2026.
After a historic rough patch that saw him lose eight straight fights to end his UFC tenure, the one-time UFC interim lightweight champion has turned things around in 2025, picking up his second win of the year at Misfits Mania. Taking on Warren Spencer, Ferguson snatched a hard-fought unanimous decision win (49-45, 49-45, 48-46) to become the promotion’s new middleweight boxing champion.
Ferguson, 42, started by pressuring Spencer and chipping away with jabs high and low. For only his second boxing match, Ferguson put together a strong approach that built as the fight went on, culminating in a successful combination that dropped Spencer in the second round.
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Spencer started to pick up his pace after that, but was too far behind to take it on the scorecards.
The middle rounds were more of the same, with Ferguson only further succeeding in landing his offense. Spencer was never able to overcome the volume and stalking that his counterpart applied, however Round 4 provided Ferguson with a brief scare, as Spencer found a clean body shot that opened up Ferguson’s high guard, allowing some problematic punches to get through. He was visibly hurt and lost the round, only to rally and nearly put away Spencer late in Round 5.
Ferguson made his boxing debut in August when he scored a third-round stoppage of Nathaniel “Salt Papi” Bustamante to finally halt his nightmarish losing streak. The match served as the first win in any discipline since 2019 for “El Cucuy.” Now that he holds the Misfits middleweight title, Ferguson will presumably be sticking around for more boxing matches with the promotion.
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As for the 32-year-old Spencer (3-3), he has yet to score a win in Misfits. On the same card where Ferguson made his debut against Bustamante, Spencer suffered a 15-second loss in MMA to Dillon Danis.
In Saturday’s Misfits Mania main event, Andrew Tate — the controversial influencer who’s been charged with sexual assault in multiple countries — lost a majority decision (57-57, 58-56, 58-56) to Netflix reality star Chase DeMoor for the Misfits heavyweight title.
