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His contract didn't expire until a year later but in any case, by mid 2022 it looked pretty likely Ngannou would leave when his contract expired and that's when Jones started to position himself in the division (after years of postponing any potential HW fight--which coincidentally enough happened to be the same years when Ngannou had the belt)Francis was injured after Gane in Jan 2022 and no longer even had a contract with the UFC now that he'd fought it out. That's why Jones couldn't fight Ngannou while Ngannou was out and why they were instead initially looking at Stipe.
This all happened not even a year ago. Give it a few years at least before trying to re-write history.
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