Francis Ngannou Got Physically Aggressive After Not Winning Fight Of The Night Bonus, Says UFC CEO Dana White

What is the UFC dream matchup we never got? Brock Lesnar vs Fedor Emelianenko? GSP vs Anderson Silva? Jon Jones vs Francis Ngannou?

UFC CEO Dana White is talking about his backstage interactions with the Cameroon fighter Francis Ngannou on the Flagrant podcast where the former UFC heavyweight champion was physically aggressive after not scoring a fight of the night bonus: “So when you’re an athlete that’s signed by the UFC, you get full access to the Performance Institute, you can eat there for free, everything’s free and do all this stuff. This guy was f*cking living there. He had just fought and he comes up to my office, he’s in the hallway hanging out and I said ‘come on in, what’s going on?’

“He was pissed off he didn’t get a $50,000 in his last fight, that he didn’t get the bonus of the night. I said Francis you didn’t get it for this, that reason and he’s in my office and he’s arguing with me. I’m like this guy got this, this guy got that and this is why. The conversation’s over, and I’m starting to leave, and he grabs me by my shirt and pushes me back in my office and I said ‘dude, get your f*cking hands off me.’ I could see in this guy’s face and in his eyes and the way he’s acting who this guy really f*cking is.”

Ngannou was also like that with other UFC staff, White said: “My guy Hunter Campbell, they were talking about something, it might have even been that same thing about the bonus. And when Hunter started to walk away, Francis grabbed him by the f*cking back of his collar and f*cking pulled him back and said ‘we’re not done talking yet.’ This guy’s not a good f*cking guy. He’s a bad guy.”

White also says Ngannou hid behind his French accent to look innocent: “So he’s going in to fight Stipe Miocic in Boston, and he knows he’s going to f*cking kill Stipe,. So after the press conference, we’re walking down this hallway and he comes over to me and he grabs me and he says ‘let me tell you what’s going to happen’ — his English is f*cking great, no language barrier whatsoever — ‘when this fight’s over, you’re going to book me a private plane to Paris.’ I laughed and said ‘oh yeah.’ He said ‘I’m not joking, you’re going to book me a private plane to Paris.’ I said OK. We go our own ways. Stipe Miocic beats the f*cking shit out of him. Beats the shit out of him. That ended that whole conversation. I should have f*cking cut him that day.”

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