Francis Ngannou responds to Dana White’s ideas on PFL signing

On Saturday night time UFC president Dana White responded to the information that Francis Ngannou had signed with the PFL. His lengthy rant lined many angles however the gist of it was that he wasn’t overly impressed, nor believed it was the correct transfer for the previous UFC champion.

“Primarily based on what I do know in regards to the deal, which isn’t a lot, it is not sensible to me. You’re going to pay a man to not battle for a 12 months, and it’s already been like [14] months. He’s fought 3 times within the final three years,” he stated to the media following UFC Vegas 73. “It’s simply not what we do right here. It’s not what we do. And the day that we launched him, I knew precisely what was going to occur. Francis desires to take zero dangers, doesn’t need to take any possibilities, and he clearly didn’t need to take an opportunity with Jon Jones — and after we noticed what occurred with Ciryl Gane, I don’t blame him. I believe the end result would’ve been precisely the identical, and I’m certain most of you do and I’m certain Francis does too.”

After the remarks received again to Ngannou, he weighed in.

“What’s your drawback with me?” he tweeted. “1. I accomplished my contract, was a free agent, and selected to stroll away. you didn’t launch me 2. I hate taking dangers? that’s why I defended my title to meet my contract with no acl or mcl?” He adopted that tweet up with two extra writing, “3. The explanation I fought 3 times in three years is since you needed to manage my deal and indicators a brand new one. And freeze me out. “I owe these guys three fights a 12 months.” Isn’t that what you say? What occurred? I at all times requested for & by no means stated no to any battle within the 3 years” and “I’m lastly getting paid and revered, and have a deal that’s honest and equal for all events. Why are you so towards me being free and glad?”