Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nWhite says the headaches began back in 2018 when Ngannou effectively demanded special treatment ahead of his bout with Stipe Miocic.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he\u2019s going in to fight Stipe Miocic in Boston, and he knows he\u2019s going to f**king kill Stipe,\u201d White said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo after the press conference, we\u2019re walking down this hallway and he comes over to me and he grabs me and he says \u2018let me tell you what\u2019s going to happen\u2019 – his English is f*cking great, no language barrier whatsoever – \u2018when this fight\u2019s over, you\u2019re going to book me a private plane to Paris.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI laughed and said \u2018oh yeah.\u2019 He said \u2018I\u2019m not joking, you\u2019re going to book me a private plane to Paris.\u2019 I said OK.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go our own ways. Stipe Miocic beats the f**king s**t out of him. Beats the s**t out of him. That ended that whole conversation. I should have f**king cut him that day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UFC and Ngannou eventually parted ways after negotiation broke down over the heavyweight\u2019s new deal as the undisputed champion.<\/p>\n
UFC 270 heavyweight world champion Cameroon’s Francis Ngannou (C) celebrates victory over France’s Ciryl Gane after their fight for the heavyweight title at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on January 22, 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN \/ AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Ngannou split with the UFC before signing with the PFL in a deal that allowed him to compete in boxing against the likes of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrancis Ngannou is a bad guy,\u201d White said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a good guy. He plays the whole \u2018I don\u2019t understand the language\u2019 and tries to come off that he\u2019s a f**king nice guy. People go \u2018oh it\u2019s the language barrier probably.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no f**king language barrier with this guy. He\u2019s a bad guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow he\u2019s over and he\u2019s done a deal with PFL and Saudi Arabia and now he\u2019s asking to fight, \u2018me and Jon Jones need to fight.\u2019 I\u2019m sure they wish they never f**king signed him. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have to hear one word from any of those guys over there to know because I know. I\u2019ve dealt with him and I know who he really is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since White\u2019s explosive claims, Ant Evans, a former UFC employee, said he \u201cbelieves it 100%\u201d.<\/p>\n
He says Ngannou made staff at the UFC office feel \u201cvery uncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrancis was a terror at the UFC office when I worked there,\u201d Evans posted on X.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019d show up over and over, walk around the offices, standing over people\u2019s desks and making staff very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, some of it was he is a huge man from a different culture speaking English as a (third?) language. And there is such a thing as being pro-active. And there\u2019s also bullying. He struck me as a bully.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White has made the stunning claim that former heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou physically accosted him during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296039","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296039","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=296039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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