Tony Ferguson will face Khabib Nurmagomedov for the UFC Lightweight Championship at UFC 223 next weekend at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The winner will likely go on to put the title on the line against Conor McGregor later this year.

Considering how big of a name McGregor is not just in UFC, but across the entire sporting world, any fighter would grab at the opportunity to fight against him with two hands and run with it. Not Ferguson though.

According to MMA Fighting, El Cucuy said during a media lunch on Thursday that he's not desperately looking for a money fight, but if he was, it wouldn't be with the Notorious one. Instead, it would be with another UFC legend instead.

Ferguson revealed that he would love to have a money fight with Georges St-Pierre, as he said: “I mean, GSP, literally if he wants a money fight, he’s an athlete. We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up."

The interim Lightweight Champion revealed that Rush was the fighter he had his eye on during the early stages of his career, as he competed most of his early career fights at welterweight, the weight class which GSP made his name in the world of MMA.

Ferguson said: “That’s what I signed up for in the beginning. I was 170 pounds; 155 was forced on me. I mean, that forced the move, ultimate reality, then that’s not the end result; 170 pounds, where I had 12 fights.”

Ferguson isn’t going to allow the prospect of a money fight get him too distracted from his tasks at hand as a champion, as he said: “When you’re just going for money fights, when this thing (the UFC title) starts losing luster ... it becomes tarnished,” Ferguson said.

El Cucuy, of course, has to get past The Eagle next weekend at the Barclays Center and capture the UFC Lightweight Championship before he can even think about having a dream fight inside the Octagon against GSP.

Still, even if he does win against Khabib, it sounds like Ferguson wants to keep his feet on the ground for now and take out the rest of the competition in the lightweight division before possibly moving up to welterweight for a clash against one of the greatest UFC fighters of all-time.