How has your POV on Francis changed recently?

[Edward Henry Greb]

For me, Francis has gone from a fighter I liked up to an elite favorite in light of recent events. Here is why:

I am wildly impressed with what he has done. If he had wussed out and crawled back to the security of the UFC and allowed himself to be punked by Dana, he would have lost out in a huge way. So many (on Sherdog and elsewhere) were saying that he was going to end up with nothing if he didn't take the UFC's offer.

Francis has king-sized balls in walking away from that. After walking away, he then pulled some real magic in getting a big money deal to fight the HW champion as well as the PFL. And he has guaranteed money and the company involvement that he wanted and never got with the UFC when he resumes his MMA career. His UFC contract would have given him a chance to make 8 million, but no guarantees beyond that, and if lost he would be back to peanuts; obviously a far shittier deal.

While unlikely, imagine the huge payday Francis would get in his next fight if he did hit the lotto and catch Fury with a KO punch. Yet another opportunity that he wouldn't have with the pink goof.

While some try to diminish his altruism and outreach to other fighters, the fact is, what he is doing matters. He has planted the seed that fighters don't always need the UFC and can look out for one another. Whether or not you think Francis is sincere in these sentiments is irrelevant- his actions have already spoken, and that is what is necessary for eventual change.

I have always considered Francis to be a very powerful, low-level, technical bum.

Nothing has changed his opinion.

But I do respect his belief in his ideals, and the fact that he achieved them.

But he is still a low-level, technical bum — who will be KO'd if this is a real fight.

 

[dammage]

Actually that’s not true. Well it might be depending if the fight does actually take place which is still 50/50. It’s a circus exhibition. With that said, he has zero marketability and he doesn’t help himself either. Rampage made 5 mil in a single fight, Brock made millions per fight , Conor , etc. Point is, if ngannou had an ounce of personality and did his part in selling fights = he would make 10’s of millions in the ufc. This circus exhibition is going to be his last ‘big pay day’ and it’s only what 8 million dollars? Lol subtract half of that to taxes expenses etc that’s peanuts. And Fury is going to have to carry the Nagnnou not only in the fight but promoting the fight ( if fury even wants to he’s already filthy rich) . Many of the previous Dubai circus cards have not fared well.

But its 8 figures, not 8 millions ( probably around 15-20 millions) and why did you leave out the very lucrative deal with pfl where he will get just shy of 10 million every fight for the duration of his contract ? He can also pick his own sponsors and will get additional millions trough that instead of the peanuts they get trough sponsring in the ufc

 

[2004 account]

Francis doesn't care about the other fighters he's just trying to get paid.

That stuff about healthcare for fighters with UFC was BS to give him a fake moral high ground because he doesn't have those same demands for his boxing card or for PFL who he's now signed with.

Did you not hear he got his next pfl opponent a guaranteed generous purse?

 

[cmw43]

Did you not hear he got his next pfl opponent a guaranteed generous purse?

I did but he needed to do that to entice a legit opponent, no one cares if he was just fighting some Schmoe.

 

[jooohnmatrix]

Really enjoyed him initially, but seeing him beaten easily by Stipe, his following that rotten timid performance was possibly the worst ufc fight on record and then seeing him beat Stipe in the rematch he does the dishonourable thing and refuses the rematch - turned me completely off the fraud.
I think peoples love for him here says more about their hatred against Dana and given his fans are generally fatherless bastards with daddy issues I shouldn’t expect more.
Cheering him on for entering into a fake boxing match with a no knock down clause? Why support this?

 

[don't ask]

I think peoples love for him here says more about their hatred against Dana and given his fans are generally fatherless bastards with daddy issues I shouldn’t expect more.

lol were you crying when you typed this? This is a pathetic way to wave away criticism of the pathologically lying, wife-beating, sport-harming strong-arming narcissist that is Dana White. The fact that you could even conjure up such a twisted brush to paint his critics with suggests a lot of unflattering things about you.

Cheering him on for entering into a fake boxing match with a no knock down clause? Why support this?

source on that knockdown clause?