Could Francis Ngannou become the third UFC champion after Kamaru and Adesanya? Well, the 34-year-old yearn massively for the record.
Francis Ngannou. heavyweight contender reveals he badly wants to become the UFC’s 3rd African-born champion with a victory over Stipe Miocic at UFC 260 this weekend.
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“That’s what I’m thinking about all the time basically leading up to this fight, I feel like losing this fight, I will disappoint a lot of people — The whole continent that are looking up to us — being like 3 African champions [along with] Kamaru Usman and Adesanya, ” Francis Ngannou ahead of the encounter.
Two Nigerian uplifting the name of Africa in the UFC, Usman Kamara is the UFC’s reigning welterweight champion and Israel Adesanya holds the belt in the middleweight division.
Francis Ngannou — was born and raised in Cameroon — he hopes to become the third African to achieve the great in UFC. “We don’t realize how big it is but we are talking about a continent of billions of people. It’s huge.”
