News *** Francis Ngannou Free Agency/Contract/Decision Making Discussion MEGA THREAD ***

[Ogata]

Oh yeah PFL and Jake Paul…real big players. What’s next BKFC?

So far in your whinings you’ve propped up Jake Paul and Andrew Tate…we’re done here.

Jake Paul is more famous than every single UFC fighter right now and so yes that is correct, he is a real big player and if all the talented guys decide to fight in the PFL then PFL will be the main premier MMA organization like how pride used to be in the 90s. Also thank god if we are done here.

 

[Azure]

Absolute embarrassment for the UFC. You let the HW champ go in the prime of his career over what? A million a fight? What a joke.

Whatever the spin I think this is clearly only about one thing.. Francis wanted the ability to box written into his contract.

 

[El Fernas]

Also, MMA fans don’t pay for PPV’s. And Boxing fans aren’t going to pay to see Fury waste one of his last boxing matches on a smaller version of Wilder that doesn’t even hit as hard.

Think of it as Floyd vs Conor, it wont sell 4 million PPV's but it would do OK, that if the UFC were on board...

 

[Deleted member 587672]

Don't mind seeing Frank win the PFL. Or, even Bellator would give him money for easy wins.
BKB. Oooooorrrrrr....

WWE!!!!

 

[ejazahmednit]

Francis will be back in the UFC in a year or two. Mark my words. These guys are businessmen, they ll go where the money is. I ll just enjoy whatever is available

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Francis might have committed career suicide. No longer the UFC champion and Tyson Fury isn't the most reliable person.

Will PFL be paying him at least 1 million per fight? Yeah Maybe. The problem is no matter who you are, there's always a danger of losing in some random organization

I think Francis was trying to maximize his pay by fighting Jon Jones, then fighting Fury and whoever is after that which it probably would've been Ganes.

What's his new strategy now? Fight in PFL and beg Fury for a fight

 

[TheNinja]

Absolute embarrassment for the UFC. You let the HW champ go in the prime of his career over what? A million a fight? What a joke.

I’m guessing it was more like 10 mil per fight and he wanted to be able to box. You don’t see the NFL letting guys sign up to play pro rugby while under contract to the NFL do you ?

 

[svmr_db]

 

[Clover87]

What do you mean “ it isn’t enough these days”
Ppv has steadily been dropping like crazy. And
it was his prior fight against whyte was 100kbattendamce.

60k live gate for a fight that nobody cares about is tremendous. So is 300k Ppv buys some say 500k. with millions of people watching it. For perspective
ufc 278 did 300k buys.
And we’ve seen it twice already and chisora was washed up. And collecting a pay check.
Far from abysmal numbers. Fury made a gurantee 25 million and chisora 4. With an 80/20 Ppv split. In a fight that nobody was excited for.

that speaks volumes.

You call that abysmal numbers?

Yes. I do. If fury really got that Guarantee(there's no way of actually knowing) the promoter absolutely lost is ass. Do the math.

 

[svmr_db]

Francis might have committed career suicide. No longer the UFC champion and Tyson Fury isn't the most reliable person.

Will PFL be paying him at least 1 million per fight? Yeah Maybe. The problem is no matter who you are, there's always a danger of losing in some random organization

I think Francis was trying to maximize his pay by fighting Jon Jones, then fighting Fury and whoever is after that which it probably would've been Ganes.

What's his new strategy now? Fight in PFL and beg Fury for a fight

I agree, Fury is untrustworthy he contradicts himself every other minute. Retires "for real" after the Dillian Whyte fight then comes back soon after. Regardless, he's gonna be tied up with possibly 2 fights with Usyk this year so he's not fighting Francis in 2023.

Really doubt PFL / Bellator can sell PPVs a fraction of what UFC does just with Francis headlining.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

I don’t think a fight with Widler and Fury is gonna happen and it won’t be close they will both embarrass him. Go to ONE or PFL because no one in the boxing world that’s big is gonna he focusing on him right

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Brock was the biggest draw at one point and this what they paid him minus his sponsorship pay

 

[GeraltOfRivia]

Yes and a sloppy brawler became a champion. What does that say about the UFC?

Clearly any athlete who knows their worth knows that they can make it in boxing and its healthier on the body since your not getting kneed, elbowed and grappled to hell.



Also I am not sure what is the point of the last part. Are you saying I should be as stupid as you are and get a so called ``real`` job as in a shitty job and start a family when I cannot afford to so I have the right to complain?

Clearly you are miserable with your life and you want everyone else feel it and so shame on Francis for wanting a better pasture.





Holy shit, you must be mentally defective or one of Dana`s side hoe perhaps?

Lol at survives the UFC game....Did Spencer Fisher survive the UFC game?

Look at Sherk who was a company man. Dude is working at a shit job and hangs out at a food court. Not bad for a former world UFC champ who was promised a position in the company!

Tons of fighters who were company men got used up and fucking kicked in to the dirt. Divas like Ronda, Conor and Tito did better because they came in to the game with their own terms and imposed their own terms to the UFC. Meanwhile bum fuck prelim fighters who fought on short notice never got honored by the UFC and at the end, they were forgotten despite doing a million favors for them.


This is how UFC treats fighters, they make as much as money they can, they wont even let you wear your own outfit and you have to compete in a sport that is filled with injuries and once your done, they kick you to the curb. God forbids for someone having the balls to call Dana Whites bullshit business practice and wanting to get paid what they deserve.



UFC shells working overtime...

I’m not married and don’t have kids idiot. And it has nothing to do with being unhappy which you would know if you weren’t 14. 98% of the humans on earth would fucking kill for that kind of money.

Stop acting like millions of dollars per fight is some grave disservice and the dudes going to starve being so mistreated.

he’s become a whiny diva and it’s ruined his career. Like it or not being the UFC heavyweight champion carries weight and can lead to more opportunities outside of fighting. What’s he do now? Go get embarrassed in boxing once and forgotten about? He can’t box to save his life. Go the PFL nobody watches and fight some janitor nobody’s ever seen? lol doesn’t pay to be stupid and have a horrible team around you.

Dude will be poor begging for food in Africa again in a few years if he keeps up this genius plan. He got a taste and it went to his head.

 

[JKS]

Good riddance! Adios.

 

[JKS]

He really should have fought Jones before bouncing. But I guess jon was hiding out for ngannous exit

Jon was ready and willing to take this fight last year. Francis was negotiating and healing up from injury. No fault on Jonny here.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Will he make more boxing and not abusing his knees with kicks and TDs?

 

[flektarn]

I don’t think a fight with Widler and Fury is gonna happen and it won’t be close they will both embarrass him. Go to ONE or PFL because no one in the boxing world that’s big is gonna he focusing on him right

Wilder would end him in R1.

 

[JKS]

This is a sad day for UFC fighters and their future. If a champion with a great backstory can’t negotiate any freedom or flexibility, what are lesser fighters going to do?

The sport will never see progress, as long as there are millions of people willing to die for Dana White and his women-beating.

You clearly have a personal vendetta vs Dana and the UFC. They are at no fault here and did everything right. This one is on Francis.

What freedom and flexibility are you talking about btw??

 

[StewDogg11]

Yes and a sloppy brawler became a champion. What does that say about the UFC?

Clearly any athlete who knows their worth knows that they can make it in boxing and its healthier on the body since your not getting kneed, elbowed and grappled to hell.



Also I am not sure what is the point of the last part. Are you saying I should be as stupid as you are and get a so called ``real`` job as in a shitty job and start a family when I cannot afford to so I have the right to complain?

Clearly you are miserable with your life and you want everyone else feel it and so shame on Francis for wanting a better pasture.





Holy shit, you must be mentally defective or one of Dana`s side hoe perhaps?

Lol at survives the UFC game....Did Spencer Fisher survive the UFC game?

Look at Sherk who was a company man. Dude is working at a shit job and hangs out at a food court. Not bad for a former world UFC champ who was promised a position in the company!

Tons of fighters who were company men got used up and fucking kicked in to the dirt. Divas like Ronda, Conor and Tito did better because they came in to the game with their own terms and imposed their own terms to the UFC. Meanwhile bum fuck prelim fighters who fought on short notice never got honored by the UFC and at the end, they were forgotten despite doing a million favors for them.


This is how UFC treats fighters, they make as much as money they can, they wont even let you wear your own outfit and you have to compete in a sport that is filled with injuries and once your done, they kick you to the curb. God forbids for someone having the balls to call Dana Whites bullshit business practice and wanting to get paid what they deserve.



UFC shells working overtime...

Sean Sherk is poor and destitute because he eats at a food court? Wait what? Also his “shit job” you speak of is flipping houses which is not a poor person’s game.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Wilder would end him in R1.

Exactly Francis throws a powerful upper cut wilder throws a powerful left hook. Left hook beats an upper cut