“Only 4 People Know This”- Dana White and UFC’s Blunder Exposed in Front of Joe Rogan in Massive Disclosure by Francis Ngannou From Ciryl Gane Fight

Injuries are a painful but unavoidable part of sports. And this is especially true of contact sports like football and combat sports and many careers like that of Dominick Cruz, Cain Velasquez, and Bas Rutten have been adversely affected by injuries, preventing them from reaching their full potential.

And former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is no exception. The Cameroonian had suffered a severe knee injury ahead of his title bout against Cyril Gane. And the Cameroonian has revealed to Joe Rogan how his injury was kept hidden from the public, despite the UFC leadership being aware of it, and why he did not pull out despite the injury.

Francis Ngannou tells Joe Rogan who knew about his knee injury

In a conversation on episode #146 of the JRE MMA Show, Ngannou revealed that only four people knew that he had a serious knee injury before his fight against Cyril Gane at UFC 270 in January last year. These people were UFC boss Dana White, senior UFC official Hunter Campbell, his doctor, and Ngannou himself, according to ‘The Predator’.

“They know everything. When I did the MRI, he went to Dr Davison and then when he was explaining it to me, he said only for people know about this by now. Dana, Hunter, you and I,” Ngannou said. Rogan asked him if he had considered pulling out of the fight, to which the former UFC champion made another surprising revelation.

Ngannou on why he didn’t pull out of Gane fight

The PFL heavyweight said that though he had considered pulling out. But he did not want to give the UFC any opportunity to generate negative headlines about him dodging Gane, as he was having contract disputes at that time, which led to him exiting the promotion. Various other fighters have accused the UFC of doing this.

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“I thought, yeah, you know, in the perfect scenario I would have pulled out of the fight, you know, but I didn’t want to give them an opportunity. It wasn’t about the extension. I didn’t want to give the opportunity to bury me,” Ngannou told Rogan.

Less than a month away from his title fight against Gane, Francis Ngannou suffered a torn MCL and ACL, but still faced and defeated the Frenchman. And as he gears up to face Tyson Fury in a boxing match next month in Saudi Arabia,  he will be hoping his knee holds him in good stead.

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