Chael Sonnen reflects on near-street fight with Francis Ngannou: “You ducked Jon Jones”
Chael Sonnen and former UFC champion Francis Ngannou nearly came to blows in a street fight.
‘The Predator’ is fresh off his return to combat sports earlier this month in Saudi Arabia. There, Francis Ngannou competed in his second boxing match, against former champion Anthony Joshua. While ‘The Predator’ nearly upset Tyson Fury in his first appearance in the ring, his second fight was brutal.
Last week, the British boxer badly knocked out Francis Ngannou inside two rounds. One has to assume that Chael Sonnen got a little bit of enjoyment out of that sight. After the former UFC champion left the Dana White-led company last year, ‘The Bad Guy’ repeatedly slammed Ngannou.
That didn’t go unnoticed by Francis Ngannou. As Chael Sonnen recalled on a recent edition of the Good Guy, Bad Guy Podcast, ‘The American Gangster’ discussed a run-in he had with the heavyweight. According to the UFC analyst, the two got into a confrontation in a parking garage last August.
The two were in Dallas, Texas, in town for Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz. As Sonnen recalled, Ngannou noticed him and stated that he had been looking for him for a while. While the two nearly came to blows, they didn’t after the heavyweight noticed that the analyst was with his son. As a result, they parted ways without throwing any punches.
Chael Sonnen reflects on near-fight with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou
“I gotta tell you, you come face-to-face with an angry Francis in a street fight situation.” Chael Sonnen stated, reflecting on his run-in with Francis Ngannou. “So here we are. Security breaks it up but they don’t get involved. They’re over my shoulder. I can hear them yelling at us but they don’t actually come over. So now we’ve turned and squared up.” (h/t MMAWeekly)
“…And I’ve got an ego too. You ducked Jon Jones. I’ll fight Jon right now and I might have to fight you right now. This is going through my mind. My son is about twelve feet away. He’s in a pair of gloves that Nate Diaz had given him. It was the Nate Diaz versus Jake Paul. Nate had given him a pair of gloves, so my son over. He’s shadow boxing. Francis doesn’t know he’s there. I said, ‘Francis, not now,’ and he let’s me know this is happening now. I’ve been looking for you for awhile,” Sonnen said.
“I took my hand and I did like this to my son [motioning with his hand] and I said, ‘Not in front of my son.’ Francis looks over and sees my son. Not a word did he say. Respect. He understood the code. He dropped it right there. That was a gentleman move by him. I look at him differently after that.”
What do you make of these comments? How do you think the fight between Chael Sonnen and Francis Ngannoou would’ve gone?
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