Francis Ngannou is not looking to get into another back-and-forth with UFC CEO Dana White over the semantics of his choice to leave the promotion.
As the three-year anniversary of Ngannou’s final octagon appearance approaches, the former UFC heavyweight champion doesn’t have a sliver of doubt that he made the right call leaving the company behind. Since then, Ngannou has achieved his dream of competing in professional boxing after a pair of significant bouts against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua that figure to have cashed in big paydays.
There was a point in time when White said Ngannou would never get what he wanted in the boxing world by parting ways with the UFC, especially after he left an offer on the table to be the highest paid heavyweight in UFC history. More recently, White said the idea that boxing provides greater paydays than what’s possible in the UFC is “a myth,” and he knows for “a fact” that Ngannou was offered more money to stay in UFC because he knows the “real numbers” that others don’t.
