Ngannou turns down $8 million to fight Jones

Marina Magomedova
18 Jan 2023
11:19
Ngannou turns down $8 million to fight Jones

Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, who became a free agent, named the fee he could have gotten for his fight with Jon Jones.

Francis Ngannou
I don't know if I would have been the highest paid heavyweight in history, you have to know how much the others were getting. Brock Lesnar made eight million dollars for a fight at UFC 200? For a fight with Jones, I'd get something like that.

In his last fight, which took place in January 2022 at UFC 270, Ngannou faced Ciryl Gane. The bout went the full five rounds and ended with Francis winning by unanimous decision of the judges. Ngannou, 36, has 17 wins and three losses under his belt.

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