LAS VEGAS – Francis Ngannou isn’t playing his cards correctly, according to former UFC and Bellator fighter Chael Sonnen.
Initially, Sonnen indicated, he gave now-free agent Ngannou the benefit of the doubt upon exit of the UFC in pursuit of other, perhaps more lucrative ventures. But upon further examination and the every-second tick of the clock, Sonnen said, he thinks Ngannou needs to have an epiphany soon.
“Francis did a show yesterday with a gentleman, who is kind of a business show (host),” Sonnen told MMA Junkie Radio after he hosted a BKFC 41 news conference Tuesday at Palms Resort Casino. “The guy was breaking it down and he was asking Francis some very basic questions about the business of MMA. Francis, he looked like a deer in the headlights. He didn’t have the foggiest idea how to respond. I thought maybe he was past that, he had been around, he looked around, and kind of saw where some of the numbers came from, he saw what made sense. I think now that maybe he was still of the mindset of, ‘I knocked out three guys in a row and therefore,’ as if that just created money from the MMA money tree.”
