Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou departed the combined martial arts battle promotion in 2023 to pursue excessive profile boxing matches after failing to come back to phrases on a brand new contract. He was stripped of the UFC title and finally did land these boxing matchups.
“The Predator” made his boxing debut in October 2023 towards Tyson Fury and fought the champion on the time to a break up choice. Ngannou’s future in boxing regarded shiny, however that will be quick lived. He confronted Anthony Joshua in his second boxing bout and was viscously knocked out within the second spherical.
Whereas Ngannou acquired good-looking paydays for the boxing matches towards Fury and Joshua, UFC CEO Dana White says Ngannou would have made extra if he stayed within the UFC and fought Jon Jones. White claimed that it is a ‘fable’ that there is more cash in boxing.
“That’s the bullshit publicly that individuals imagine, however that’s not the reality. Complete bullshit. Complete bullshit,” White mentioned in an interview with Kevin Iole.
“That’s that complete fable that makes everyone go, ‘Oh, let’s f**king go to boxing!’ and all this bullshit. Boxing don’t work. Boxing doesn’t work. What makes it work? You want a Saudi f**king trillionaire to make f**king fights. And even Saudi trillionaires get uninterested in the f**king bullshit. It’s all a f**king fable. It’s all a fable.
“Like the entire assertion you simply made is completely positively not true. It’s these kinds of f**king statements and people sort of quotes by the media that makes all this sh*t. All these fights are taking place, it takes a Saudi f**king trillionaire. Each f**king man that tries to do the boxing factor, all of them find yourself shedding shit-loads of f**king cash. The mannequin doesn’t work. A Saudi limitless amount of cash pops up and that’s what makes these fights occur, and even guys with that form of cash get f**king uninterested in the bullsh*t.”
Ngannou reportedly made within the neighborhood of $30 million throughout his two-hight stint in boxing. Throughout Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Sequence Submit-Combat Press Convention, White claimed the Ngannou would have made extra within the UFC.
“I do know all of the sh*t that you simply folks don’t know, and I don’t care what everyone says,” White mentioned. “It doesn’t matter to me. However that’s a truth. He was provided more cash, as a result of I do know the true numbers. I do know the true numbers.”
