Dana White really doesn’t like Francis Ngannou.
White and Ngannou have been embroiled in a bitter feud for years at this point, with things really taking off when Ngannou exited the UFC while holding the heavyweight title. But things weren’t all roses and sunshine before then either, as Ngannou and the UFC had been butting heads both behind the scenes and in public before then, so much so that when Ngannou came up on the final fight of his UFC contract, Dana White was actively rooting for Ciryl Gane to take the heavyweight title from him.
“That’s a good question, too,” White said when Big Boy asked him who the last fighter he wanted to lose was. “Guy that I wanted to lose? It would have to be Francis Ngannou and Ciryl Gane.”
“Damn right I wanted Ngannou to lose,” White clarified moments later.
At this point, it seems that, for White, Ngannou has entered the Tito Ortiz level of personal dislike, who once attempted to box. It’s unlikely that White calls for that with Ngannou, but the man seems bent on carrying this feud on, even quickly talking about how he was proven right in his dislike of Ortiz.
“We did your podcast, and I said the guy is one of the dumbest people ever, and now it’s everywhere,” White said of Ortiz. “Like, ‘Tito Ortiz is dumb!’ There’s full Instagram accounts based on it! … People are actually making money off how stupid this guy is now.”
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