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Francis Ngannou

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“I mean, even my mom says, I always stand by your side even when you're losing it like now. Like, okay, at least I know that, you know, but I don't one day happen, I made it. And I'm like, wow, he's a genius. How do you know that is going to work? I didn't know. Just keep doing it, you know? So whatever you have, you can keep trying. In my work, might not, but at least you will be in peace with yourself knowing that you have given it all. I think it's the most important people I'm so afraid to fail. That they don't even try, and I think that's really that's the failure from not taking action. The failure is not actually the fact that you don't succeed in whatever you do. The failure is not taking action, it's not even try. That's why you really”
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“I need to succeed in order to prove everybody that was doubting at me to prove them wrong. Because even like coming from where I came from, having the idea of boxing, bro, he was the worst thing that it was dreamed that you could have. Like everybody... Nobody believed in it, in the dream, not in me, but just in the dream, like it's not possible. We can't come from where we come, we are to get there is not possible. It's not mean for us. Find something that is around us and get settled. They really thought I was losing it. Basically, like when I let my little job in the village go to the city, I was 22 years old and I saw my motorcycle like, okay, go to the store and buy gloves and stuff that I'm doing boxing. I'm like, okay, this how this guy has got to the top level of craziness. What the hell is this? And everybody.”
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“I think so. I think there is a lot. We set ourselves limit of ourselves by just like, oh, it's not possible Which again, we don't know what's possible or not. Stand there thinking of what's possible or not. Does herb actions herb and sometimes you try you fail? It's okay. You stand back up, pick your shade, reset, start again, and then until you make it and then once you really make it and I'm like, oh, he's good, he's a genius. Like how did you know that this will work? He didn't know anything. Just keep trying, just refuse to give up. It's just like that. And he said, it's something that, you know, because at some point, like, I feel like...”
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“My boy There was a moment that I realized that everything, I mean everything that's been my reason. fighting. I really feel like I fell like a failure.”
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“Do they take help to get penny away? It's a process that you have to go through, it's a pain that you just have to learn with. It's like having a handicap. You just have to learn to deal with. There are people today that live pretty good without hand or food. Her wish at first sir they get impudent and they have to rehab to deal with.”
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“It is so sad inside that you don't even know that you can push the door and get out. So you have to do something. You have to keep. And then when you push the door, get out, maybe walk in the room or something, then it changes your mind. And you're like, oh, please pick something down and then it help change your mind. But if you stay in that bathroom, those same memory will run over and over and over.”
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“Mr Bide, I think, as I said like this, someday like I don't just really want to do anything, I don't really care, and those ID that you I mean, that's what your heart tells you, like your heart don't really care about anything, then your brain will tell you be reasonable and tell you that to go. That's when you really have to. At that moment, that you feel like you don't want to do anything. It's exactly the moment that you have to do something to get off of there. Because those emotions... pretty good at shutting things around you sometime you get in the just get I don't know in the bath Just get stuck in there and then memories and stuff just get you stuck in there and you're”
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“I had so mush in this kit like he was just fifteen years fifteen months old, but you know I have so many plants was doing this was preparing that was having a bad building a basketball court was getting ready for his like looking for a soke so we can go play soccer when he started because he just started to work when he saw it we go play Every day he become he became a It goes, it wasn't like just a kid, he was a girl's exciting wedding, you know, stay and his time. So fighting nights the glories who fight before the end of the year. I'm training, I'm keeping the shape, but I have to go back in Africa a little bit.”
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“Yeah, I think my song was full of life. I think if there's one thing that He wasn't inactive. He was very active. Was very curious about stuff, he was, and I think The best way to honor him would definitely not be to quit or to live thing like that because of him. I think if there is a way that he would like things to be done was to serve as a To be a reason for things to happen.”
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“Fighting a reason, fighting for a reason. to fight for. is whether you You make it a purpose to keep going, a reason to keep going or a reason to stop. But other ways either way he can serve as he reason.”
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“I suppose to be firing No, I'm not fighting in the PFL Africa. I'm fighting in PFL Global. But yes, we launched the PFA Africa and they announced it the other day in Nigeria, in Lagos, Nigeria with one of our new partners, Elios. So”
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“Gonna be there for a couple weeks. I'm training now. I want to really make a purpose have a purpose, you know, make a sense of all of this. And I think I'm going back to fight. So I've been training a little bit Because I get to the point that I feel like I really need to push myself to get out there, start to think about something purpose and that's what I'm doing now training and I think I should fight. Need a fight I might fight before the end of the year. I think some MMA fight will be good. going back to boxing again.”
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“Yeah, um emotionally. And you really like what's the purpose, what's the goal if he's gonna end up like this? What was the purpose of fighting I will end up not being able to fight for the only person that I can fight for. Talk about us. What else you get? Move on to something.”
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“I don't know. I've been questioning myself about that lately. Yeah. Why you see people Know somebody Pretend to know somebody. wise they don't even know themselves. You can know somebody who doesn't even know. You don't know who you are. You don't know what you can do, what can affect you, how you can deal with things that never happen to you So you can expect to know that about somebody.”
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“Surprisingly, I think a lot of people are doing pretty good. which is for mere surprise I always walk around like the toughest guy. And I get to. You know, just been tired, just getting tired being tough. Think it's exhausting. What is easy to deal with?”
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“You discover your own self. You think you've been through a lot, you think you're strong, you thought you were strong. realize you were Arrow.”
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“You don't learn how to express I think I found myself very emotional at some point. On It's not something that you commend it, you don't control, just happen, and then you discover yourself.”
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“How do they grieve? How do their processes are never learn? I never know how he works. You just feel it. Some days you do with it, some day you do without it. How do dead deal with that kind of situation There's not a There's not a process that is set up to. learn how to go through. People would do it in different ways. And how long it takes to grief when it is stopped?”
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“Yeah, he wasn't sick, we didn't have to take him to the hospital, didn't have to. Anything like that, you know, I wish I could have taken him to the hospital, find for a good doctor, like make calls and do stuff, you know, feel like I'm useful. I'm playing just as I always want to be. That was it.”
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“Life I mean surviving. The same. I don't think he will ever be the I can't explain How in just fifteen months I mean, I sir ask myself how in just fifteen months A kid or a peasant can take this much space and become Became you to the point that when he's gone you feel like you are missing too. Just fifteen months. I mean, two years ago he wasn't there and I was living good. came he left. And I I don't know. Weird type of thing. Basically, like after what I was saying earlier, like my whole life was about To fight in order for my family not to go through those situations, not to feel powerless or useless in the situation and for the very oly person that I should fight for I couldn't, I didn't even have a chance. So sometime only that night dear is painful.”
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“Something that I never imagined, and all of a sudden nothing really matters. Of a sudden, you realize that you were complaining about a lot Instead of being feeling blessed, being grateful, you were complaining about things that didn't work, but in fact everything was working well.”
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“But I think it was my mistake. I shouldn't have done good in the fury fight. I think that was what was expected in the fury fight. Me to lose maybe in”
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“I said thinking I could have beat him, I could have lost too, but no that you, yeah, things were so easy. Like, I wasn't, I don't know.”
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“Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know if it was just a fatigue or whatever. I was in the locker room getting warm up and felling asleep and feeling asleep. So that's why personally, yeah, I take that loss, but I don't put it in the context. I think it could have been different”
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“I mean, I think it's a trick. I didn't know before, but I think it's a trick that they have in boxing. They have a lot of tricks. And in fact, like in the week, during the week, my coach Dewey, because he's a very calm person and he was like, he get to the point that he was really mad and was yelling about it like, no, this is how you get, you do to get fired tired. And I'm like, no, it's okay. I didn't know how deep was the problem, you know. Until I get in the final set, then I'm like, okay, this is serious, but he was too late.”
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“Okay, it's not that bad. I've been training to fight in that time frame in around 1 p.m. 1 Bro, we are sitting there and then Watching Antony Joshua arrive in the arena at one dirty. Like how come you tell me that with you the guys tell me that I'm going to fight around midnight and one o'clock or that is delayed are gonna fight at one forty five and then he's now just arrived When he arrived, we know that he's about two hours before there is a fight. You don't get in the arena one hour before the fight. No, it's two hours is the average. And stuff like that, they did a lot. Again, not to say I couldn't lose the fight.”
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“Like, they will get you everywhere that I was going in that week. I have to wait at least one hour, one hour and a half before the beginning or before Antonio Joshua arrived. But they always send a car to pick me up like that amount of time, even the fight day. The fight day I stay in the locker room for Four hour and a half, four hours and a half. Seneca to pick me up, pick up time, turn 30. Because you're supposed to fight, they tell me up front, I suppose, supposed to fight around midnight and 1 p.m. So pick up time Yes, on 1am, sorry. Pick up time, dirty. It's like, okay, good How he works is that amount of time. Then you get in the arena, they're like, oh, yeah, there's a producer like, oh, we are running behind clock on the broadcasting, so we might be fighting at 145.”
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“I'm carrying on. I don't really take that fight as a note because not to say, I mean... You cannot, you will be a fool if you are going to fight basically in boxing somebody like Antony Joshua and don't think that you can lose, right? Or trying to make an excuse of losing. If there is somebody that you can lose against in a combat sport, then he's somebody like Antony Joshua, right? But honestly, on that fight, there was a lot of unfairness. you know and then which might have been for something or not but there was a lot of unfairness unlike the tyson fight that everything was straight and i think nobody was giving me a chance and then that everything was fair No snicky stuff. But the second one, he was so messy. Of tricks”
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“I'm retired what a early retirement we only have that shot window of a time. Then at forty two like is it time that most people a career just pick up but we are forced to retire by that time. So why would I just like do what I can do until then and see how far I can go?”
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“That's never be my goal. My goal was really because I was aware of the situation. My last fight, my first fight in boxing was less than a year ago, October 2023. And I was what? Already thirty seven? It's not a moment in your life that you're expecting to have a career into a combat spot like boxing. You know, he was just like, okay, what can I do? And I think that question sustain. And even for MMA, I think there's a lot of thing for me. I've been doing even MMA for just like, what? 11 years. And I think I have a lot of things to learn to experiment, to show in the fight. I think I still have a lot and I still have that passion. I'm not very young, but I have a couple years in front of me to be doing it because after this you have to remember that after this maybe by the time I'm forty forty two then”
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“Everything that I have, then I go home. But as long as I still feel like I have something for fighting, I have something to give to the fighting community. I go to the gym, I get excited, I wake up, I think of training and I get excited like, oh, this is it. I still have that motivation, that fire in me. I think I keep doing it. You know, I go to the gym, I train, I think like, oh, I learned something. I have some improvement, you know, or there's something that I really want to understand how it works or how I want to master. Yes, I think it works like that. We have to remember that Raga is not just fighting, it's a martial art. Fighting is a martial art, and martial art never ends before MME came around, you will see people character.”
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“As I said, there's always a challenge. There's always like This be possible, can I done this? Can I, you know, like what's my limit? How far can I go? I think whatever we do in life is a shame if we end up not really find our full potential or not giving it. You know, I think I'm going to give all.”
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“1000 can't change life depending on where we are standing from. Speaking from my sire or from your sire or from Musia. You give 10 million to somebody is just another 10 million and he won't change anything in his life. And you give 1,000 to somebody. He changed his life. He saved his life. He would take that $1,000 maybe. Send his kid as college medicine, save them from illness or something. So life-changing money is not the amount.”
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“Yeah And even in my view you would have been a Tyson Fury fight or he would be a PF fight. I knew that from that moment every fight that I will be paid more than what I have been making in my entire career. Why? Because My last years in the UFC. I could have been making more if I have accepted the contract. So I basically left a lot of money on the table. in order to get my freedom. I bought my freedom, basically. You know, they said that they said freedom is not given. It's not given. Freedom is not free. You have to give something in order to get that. So that's why at that point I made so less of a money because I refuse I turned down a lot of money.”
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“I don't know. I think they do business how it's good for them. They do a good business for themselves. I just wanted to do. What's good for me”
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“If you call me and say, Oh, you have a fight in, okay, I have a fight, I want you to fight in one month and I'm saying, oh, I'm hurt, then you have a right to say, okay, I extend your contract for six months.”
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“Even though you know that I might need to just because you know that I might need two or three fights to make a living to keep up my lifestyle, then you strengthen down to one fight. So I will be needing money and then we'll be forced to take a contract that I don't want just because I need money”
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“stuff like that. I want something like a guarantee. Since I'm making this as a living and I'm exclusive to you, you guarantee me that whenever I could fight you find something for me, you are obligated to give me a fight. Know that because if I don't sign a contract and you want me to sign and you want me to run out of money and crawl back to you because I need those money, then you staff me and not give me a fight.”
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“Like to decide, but I want at least some responsibility on the other side showing toward me. You know, I want some responsibility. For example, when I come to say healthcare. For that level for the money that I could have been making, for the money that I would have been making if I had signed that contract, I could have any kind of healthcare that I want. But at the same time, I also want the guy on the other side of the table to take some responsibility. I'm like, okay. I'm giving you a haircare”
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“Was freedom possibility to say, okay, this is not right. You can do this, you know, or you have to do this. I need an obligation. I don't want a one-size-craft. I don't want a contract that, okay, there's... Have no right But in the other hand, the other side of the table have no obligation, so in fact the I mean, I'm giving everything for nothing, just for money. I want some of that leverage.”
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“Except if I have accept to Sign a new contract. I would have been having a lot of money, but that contract was coming with a lot of things that I was fighting against. And that's why I didn't sign. So I'm like, okay, whatever this deal is, whatever this contract is, I'm fighting this contract instead of renewing the contract and have more money and really have nothing changed. That means I'm setting myself up for another year in the same situation that I'm giving away all the power in a contract that Not giving me any power.”
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“I mean, know that broke when I say I was broke. I mean, for a heavyweight champion, I wasn't. Yeah, I wasn't comfortable Maybe but never made a million a fight, but”
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“And if that meant I had to go back and farm, I was okay with it. So I made my peace with myself at time. And that's why I stood with my decision. I turned down a lot of money that I didn't have at time. I was, for the most part, I was broke. I was living out of loan. So yes”
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“He didn't want Compromise, you didn't want to change, and I feel like that situation wasn't good for me. And I tell myself, if that's the end, then let it be. I mean, in fact, I had no guarantee that the boxing that I've been dreaming of doing, I will have to do it. He will happen at the time. But I didn't just want to comply and do things that I'm not okay with just because they led me with that one option to say yes with things that I don't like. That was the thing. I was very aware that That could be it. But he has to be on my term. And even though he means like going back to Africa, you know, I don't know, farm. I love farming. I always love.”
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“I think if we have to spend time to talk about what Dana White says, if it's true or not, we're going to spend a whole night here and then don't be okay with a lot of I think the situation was a little bit embarrassing for him. And then he was going to make a statement and find his way out. Less of opinion, like living. My comfortable career in MMA that I'm quite comfortable into to step into boxing to take the best for my first boxing match, which I never really do a professional boxing match. Does that sound like an easy fight I mean, I think he has to say something. Those who know that just has to say something.”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I tried. I tried to get her to my fight back in 2019. She couldn't get a visa. She got denied twice. And I'm like, okay, this is so stressful. I'm not doing it again. It was also embarrassing, stressful one. And even for her, he was very tough. And I'm like, okay, I'm not putting her to this again. There will be a moment, I think if I set things up pretty good, there will be a moment that things will be easier for her to see me fight.”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Around, there's always something which is set as a hymn mountain, you know. But I think what I do is to take time. I like to go home a lot and I like to go back on my path and every step, every time I'll be there, I'm like thinking of the moment that I was there like maybe 15 years ago and he will feel like he was just yesterday. And I were trying to see like where I am today, you know, see the different. That's exactly when I realized because when I'm here, I'm just living like it's normal. Like everybody, like he was just like this all the time. But when I get back, I connect with the past. And then I realize how far the road has been.”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not like you reach the higher mountain Whatever mountain you are on top there's always Then when you get in the picker of a mountain you realize there's another mountain that's higher you know and you realize that what motivates you what keeps you going wasn't the peak of the mountain but it was the peak of all mountain so then you keep it's never a satisfaction even though you take a moment I'm like oh finally make it to the top you know you take a breath but you know that you will keep going it's I think it's a mindset that you have and basically will not stop like you don't have a limit you don't have a place that you say okay if I get here then I'm done there's always something”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our focus is just that I never done spoil before. I didn't grow up as an ad so I didn't know how they do. I didn't know how they train. I didn't know how to prepare for a championship. I didn't know anything. So I was just out there trying and then in that fight I did a lot of mistake and I learned from it and I'm like, okay, the good thing I might have lost this fight, but this fight would be the biggest fight in my career because everything that is coming after this fight, everything that I learned in this fight, I will implement that in my game, in my career, from now on and he will be quite helpful.”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was $10,000 plus $10,000. And then with all the commissions, you got out with almost just half. But he wasn't he wasn't about the fight he was more about like I think me coming to America and all the stuff he was more than what I was making in the fight”
2024-08-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Francis Ngannou Breaks Down Sharing Heartbreaking Story: "I Don't Know The Purpose Of Fighting Anymore", "I Feel Powerless", "I Don't Know How To Deal With This!" · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT