{"id":293762,"date":"2025-11-19T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:00:10","slug":"dana-white-francis-ngannou-is-a-bad-guy-who-got-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293762\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: Francis Ngannou is a \u201cbad guy\u201d who got physical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well \u2026 that\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because UFC CEO Dana White has once again doubled down on his stance that the former champion is a \u201cbad guy<\/a>,\u201d this time revealing an explosive story from behind the scenes \u2014 including an alleged physical altercation between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust me, I\u2019ve had my moments with plenty of fighters \u2026 behind the scenes, shit goes on every f\u2014king week,\u201d White said. \u201cI guess the one I will tell you is\u2026 everybody has this thing about Francis Ngannou. Francis Ngannou is a bad guy. He\u2019s not a good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

White claimed Ngannou\u2019s polite public persona is an act.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe plays the whole \u2018doh-doh-doh, I don\u2019t understand the language,\u2019 and tries to come off like he\u2019s a f\u2014king nice guy. No, there\u2019s no language barrier. He\u2019s a bad guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then came the allegation: Ngannou confronting White in his office after not receiving a $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus \u2014 presumably after decapitating<\/a> Alistair Overeem or knocking out Cain Velasquez, bouts in which he didn\u2019t receive a bonus.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, he\u2019s just fought and he comes up to my office, and I say, \u2018Come on in, what\u2019s going on?\u2019 He was pissed off that he didn\u2019t get a $50,000 bonus in his last fight, that he didn\u2019t get the bonus of the night. I said, \u2018Francis, you didn\u2019t get it because this, that,\u2019 and he\u2019s in my office, and he\u2019s arguing with me. \u2018Yeah, this guy got this, this guy got that, and this is why.\u2019 So, the conversation\u2019s over, I\u2019m starting to leave, and he grabs me by my shirt, and like pushes me back into my office. I said, \u2018Dude, get your f*cking hands off me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

White added that Ngannou also allegedly grabbed UFC CBO Hunter Campbell by the collar in a separate disagreement.<\/p>\n

\u201dI could see in this guy\u2019s face and in his eyes and in the way he\u2019s acting, who this guy really f\u2014king is,\u201d White concluded. \u201cThen, my guy Hunter, they were talking about something, it might have even been the same thing, 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, \u2018We\u2019re not done talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UFC head honcho first let the public know that Ngannou was a \u201cbad guy<\/a>\u201d last year during the UFC 308 press conference and revealed that he wanted to cut him way before he became UFC champion, but it was the matchmakers who kept him around.<\/p>\n

Former UFC PR lead Ant Evans also chimed in after hearing White\u2019s latest comments, saying he \u201cbelieves it 100%,\u201d adding that Ngannou often made UFC staff \u201cvery uncomfortable\u201d when he visited the office.<\/p>\n

If there was ever hope for Ngannou\u2019s UFC return, it sounds like that door has now been welded shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well \u2026 that\u2019s not happening. That\u2019s because UFC CEO Dana White has once again doubled down on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-293762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}