Join the Miguel Delaney team: Inside Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter to get exclusive access and unparalleled insight. Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter Football newsletterFrancis Ngannou has responded to Dana White’s claim that the former UFC champion physically intimidated him, saying he feels “very annoyed to have to be responsible for what people say”.Ngannou left the UFC in early 2023, vacating the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion’s heavyweight title in the process. But that was not the end of the Cameroonian’s complicated relationship with White, the president of the UFC.In November, White accused Ngannou of having initiated a physical altercation between them during the latter’s time with the UFC. White, 56, stated on the Flagrant Podcast: “Francis Ngannou is a bad guy. He’s not a good guy. He plays the whole, ‘I don’t understand the language,’ and he tries to come off like he’s a f***ing nice guy… There’s no f***ing language barrier with this guy. “He’s going in to fight Stipe Miocic in Boston [in 2018], and he ‘knows’ he’s going to f***ing kill Stipe, right? So, after the press conference, we’re walking down this hallway and he comes over to me. He grabs me and he says: ‘Let me tell you what’s going to happen […] When this fight’s over, you’re going to book me a private plane to Paris.’ I laughed and said: ‘Oh, yeah?’ He said: ‘I’m not joking.“Miocic beats the f***ing s*** out of him, beats the s*** out of him, so that ended that whole conversation. I should have f***ing cut him [from his contract] that day.”Open image in galleryFrancis Ngannou, left, during his 2018 defeat to Stipe MIocic (Getty Images). The American went on to claim that Ngannou had been involved in yet another incident. “in my office” The following are some examples of how to get started: “arguing with me”, saying: “The conversation’s over, and I’m starting to leave, and he grabs me by my shirt and pushes me back in my office. I said: ‘Dude, get your f***ing hands off me.’ I could see, in this guy’s face and in his eyes and the way he’s acting, who this guy really f***ing is.”Now, Ngannou has responded to this claim in an interview with Ariel Helwani, telling the journalist: “I kind of, at some point, feel very annoyed to have to be responsible for what people say. Basically, like… If Dana says this, then I’m out here going to basically defend myself of what Dana said – or whoever. “I think whatever he said, if…
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