Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou has responded to Dana White’s claims that he would’ve made extra money if he’d stayed with the promotion.
Ngannou will make his MMA return towards 2023 PFL heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira on October nineteenth in Riyadh. He returns to the cage virtually three full years since his UFC finale; a win over Ciryl Gane at UFC 270.
Since then, it’s been a curler coaster journey again to the cage for Ngannou. He parted methods with the UFC following a prolonged contract dispute and has headlined two boxing playing cards towards heavyweight stars Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.
White has made a number of accusations in direction of Ngannou for the reason that former heavyweight champion left the promotion. He claimed that the UFC supplied him the most important heavyweight deal in UFC historical past and that he would’ve made greater than in his first two skilled boxing fights mixed.
Ngannou known as White’s bluff.
Francis Ngannou reacts to Dana White’s boxing claims
In a latest interview with CBS Sports‘s Shakiel Mahjouri, Ngannou responded to White’s claims.
“Until he was the one writing the verify, I don’t see how he might know that,” Ngannou mentioned. “However for me, as the within one which was receiving that cash after leaving the UFC, and from what the UFC was proposing, it was only a entice. It wasn’t a stable contract as effectively…in order that’s a lie.”
Ngannou then reacted to White’s feedback about getting into the boxing enterprise.
“Actually, I don’t know something about what he mentioned. He’s mentioned a number of issues by now, we’re all confused.”
White teased some impending bulletins about Zuffa’s transfer into boxing in latest media appearances.
Ngannou and White’s relationship stays difficult regardless of their enterprise cut up. If Ngannou’s latest feedback are any indication, they gained’t make amends anytime quickly.
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