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Francis Ngannou

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“It was the first time. And I remember I get there. Now I'm like, okay, and there was somebody at the airport with a tablet with my name on it and then pick me up with a cadillac, brought me to the hotel. The Hyat residency to check me in, brought me to my room. Then I call home, I call my Mom Lake. I don't know what it is, but I think your son have made it. Finally get to that like I mean, like I get to America. Basically. So that's what. Because for so many years, America was the dream to. In America and I gave in America and in a big way, not the way that I get in Europe because I get in Europe in the service door. I get in America basically on the carpet.”
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“So I think Fenan know a guy that was a manager at time, Tiago. Yeah, and then he was the guy that was pitching me to the UFC.”
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“I was just like training because I had time. I was jobless. So I have all my time and I like to train and I found MME very exciting. I like all those stuff. So I was training boxing MMA. And then I started to fight MMA. And sometime maybe I'll have like a couple hundred euro fighting MMA was very welcome at the time. So I'm like, let's do this. But that was it. And people keep saying, oh, if you improve, if you do this, you're going to become a UFC champion. Like, then what? I really like, I was so focused on boxing. But I think MMA came to me and gave me that opportunity. All of a sudden I'm sure I have the UFC contract.”
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“I mean no anybody at that level. Because even though a lot of people didn't want to find me, I was still on experience. So he's not like they will give, just give me to anybody. But nobody either want to take a risk. There's not a gain for a lead fighter to fight me. He's risking of losing everything, but not quite a lot to gain.”
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“I wasn't even planning to go to the USC. And but as soon as I started to fight in France, then he became very hard for me to have a fight in France. People didn't want to fight me, fight me. An arm like is a fighting game. I mean, The go is to be brutal and then I'm not having fight because I'm brutal.”
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“No, so Didier was the first one to talk to me about MMA. I'm like, oh yes, you have a good tracking if you do MMA. I'm like, what's MME? Mix Marshall? Okay, good. Then what's that? Was Mix Masha? Say yes, it's like boxing with wrestling with this. I'm like, ah, I think I have seen that once on the TV I was here. Watching TV, I see something like that. Like, yes, if you learn some good wrestling, some tick-down defense, a little bit of a grappling on this. I'm like, what's grappling? To explain the whole thing to me. And this is back in 2013, June 2013, and I'm like, bro, that's not what I want. I want, you know, the Maityson boxing, right? Yes, I'm like, that's what I want.”
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“A lot of people have expectation that maybe at times you will not know, but later on you will find out. But he was just genuine. He never have like an expectation. You know, in fact, sometimes he's the guy that sometimes you will even call, he will not be around, shut down his phone and everything. He's always been like that.”
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“He heard me a lot he heard me a lot, changed my life, I think it's too much. But he heard me a lot. I mean, we were at the gym and then he knows exactly my situation because I was clear to him, telling him everything. But other people at the gym didn't know. And in fact, he at some point even told me that you don't have to tell your story to everybody. They don't need to know your situation”
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“A yes after like two months he gave me a key. He has like one apartment that he was, I think was Airbnb or renting out and then he get free for his time. I think he knows me a little bit more and he gave me that apartment for almost two months.”
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“If you have a phone number, give me your phone number, I'll speak to a boxing coach. He'll be here on Wednesday, and I'll give you a call That's how. Give him my phone number Harifone and then on Thursday morning he called me and he said yes I spoke to the coach and he agreed that you can come and train and the next training is Saturday and that's how he started.”
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“Yeah, basically what I worked in the front desk and they gave me this form and then I saw the price and everything and I couldn't afford it. Now I'm like, can I talk to a coach, to the boxing coach? And the lady said, the boxing coach is not there today. He has his substitute, is there, you can talk to him. And I just explain straightforward, like, okay, I arrive in Paris yesterday. I don't have where to sleep, you know, but what I want, I want a place to train. So that's why I wanted to see a boxing, a coach. If you can let me train here, because I have no money. I have nowhere to sleep. I have nothing, but the only thing that I'm asking for is a place to train because I want to become a world champion. Straightforward. That was it. And”
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“For a gym. Oh, next day I was after it, so I finally get where I could start that dream that I've been having for a decade”
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“So my plan first of all was to go to, first I wanted to go to the UK. But I knew that even though I'm in Europe the free circulation in Europe, we're not allowed me to get in the UK because they are not in that zone, in the Schengen zone So I think I settle for Germany because I wanted a place that boxing was big. But for somehow I was in a group of people that most of them, they were like, oh, we are going to France, oh Chancellis, all this, all that.”
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“No, not from the detention center, there is the association that committee for refugees. Some organization that are out there, so they will come take you and then bring you to their place.”
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“I know when you're sure that the Red Cross will get you because otherwise that will be your way out in Morocco. Sometime he can prevent you not to be thrown in the desert.”
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“We're waiting, but it was a prison though. It was quite a prison, I think. You get to the point that I'm like, maybe they should have just let us inside the ocean or maybe we were better in Morocco because you are locked. You can do anything. You realize that you had freedom even though your life wasn't the best. That's when, I mean, you're here, you're getting feet every day. They tell you when to eat, when to shower, when to go sleep, when to go out and everything. And after like a couple weeks he started to become hot because at first you were excited. I'm like, oh, I made it. You're excited. I'm in Spain. I'm in Europe. But after a couple weeks, I'm like, come on, man. Like, I need my sentence now.”
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“They found us and then took us in their boat. They have a real boat, you know, like Solid big boat that took us inside in Spain.”
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“And then when they find us, because now you was a little harder to find us because he was raining and the ocean wasn't stable. You know, when the ocean is stable, you can see something from far away. Now something that happened inside the ocean. From the coast, the ocean is flat when you get inside at some point, bro. Ocean has mountains. Like there is a way that you're climbing and then until you get to the peak and then there is a way that you're going down inside the ocean. I don't know how it works, but it's exactly like that. And you can see like a huge mountain inside the ocean.”
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“Yeah, and then right after that, he started rain. And the water really get bad. He was moving. Now we are in the mirror of the ocean in this little boat just as like this table and he's like going all. Get tired in the mirror, it was nine of us.”
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“We are inside the ocean. We need help. And then, I don't know who picked up the phone and started to ask if we have a yes, how many people do you have ladies in the boat and this? I'm like, what the hell is this problem? We are human beings. And I'm like, yes, we have ladies, even kids. We didn't have kids. We didn't have ladies. I'm like, what's different that makes? Like you will just let us here because even kids and say, okay, what are you seeing? We see the helicopter right above. Okay, we are coming.”
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“In front of us, and it was like standing there, like he was looking about something. And I tell the guy that, okay, this is not a good sign. Whether this helicopter can play against us or he can play for us. What we do, call, we call now. Because when they ask what you're seeing, we will see the helicopter is right above us. And then we call.”
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“We get far from the Moroccans coast. But we don't know where is the limit, but we just get far from this course and then trying to get as far as possible inside the ocean and call. But the problem is that you're in the middle of the ocean. And even though it's where lands, the two closest distance of the two continents. From this side, you can see the other side. But in the middle of the ocean, when they say, where are you? What are you seeing? You can really give them a direction. So sometimes because their goal is just to... And if you know your locking day, you get fined by Moroccan Coast Guard. You know where you're going. You're going back tomorrow. So We parrow like for one I think it was like hour and a half almost two hours and then there was a licopter.”
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“Because we are willing, we are aiming to do this when the call for five AM prayer. Yeah, but we get little late because of those detours. But I'm the captain, I'm the one that everybody's expecting on me. And he was nine of us So as I tell him, okay, with me here let me find a place. You know When something is yours is yours. I walked around and I get somewhere in the mirror of rocks I found a spot just as big as this table enough to inflate the boat just enough no more than that and it was like this clean I touch it there wasn't anything sharp on it just like that enough I went back and caught it with a geyser. Lick, let's go. him like okay let's inflate the boat”
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“I take that thing. I like if somebody wants to go, he has to catch up with me. I just lead the way and keep going. And all night we go up and then finally go down to the step and find a place. And he was all rocks. And I'm there. You know, we used to go to wear to the beach so they descend. It's easier because you walk to the sand like this to go inside water and every footstep get you deeper and deeper. Now you are in the mirror of rocks and then the ocean is there. You don't know how deep is the ocean there and how you're going to get in that ocean. You can just jump like this to get in the ocean. And then the wave was so strong. You peer like”
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“they came we get to the to the to where we were going next to where we were going but the police car was up there so we couldn't inflict here and then put the raffle inside the ocean without them seeing us now we have to make a detour All night long we make it detour to go somewhere in the front. And even though I was sick, usually captain, you don't carry stuff because they protect you for the big action, for the men action which is inside the ocean. And then while we are making this detour, some people are being left behind on this. I'm like, bro, where's the, where's the boat? Where's the raffle? They say, oh, it's here, it's to this guy. I'm like, bring that raffle. If you stay back, stay alone. Don't stay back with the raffle.”
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“to see how the ocean is, and he wasn't so stable and I found one day I think was Tuesday and he was a second April second twenty thirteen and I say this day is good because this is the speed of the wind, this is the direction of the wind, this this I know that thing I don't know how I know it but by the time I know it properly I was a captain. So I said, tell your guy to come this day because we are living. By the time they come with the boat, we are not sleeping here with the boat. We have to just be green with the boat because it's a very, even the police when they bust into houses, they will search for that”
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“And people saw me in Tanch and I'm like Wow, this guy's here is going to make it. He's not coming back. So they are trying to bribe the guy that I was to get them in the group. And I'm like, no, we collect the money together to buy the boat. So I can take anybody out of it. I'm like, if because they call me Vandam. They say, Ivan is the captain. You guys are not coming back. You're going to make it. And I was sick. Nobody knows. So long story short, we've been there for like a couple days and I didn't even have any money to eat. And then, but I check and turn it every day to check the The widow”
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“Their leader, the head guy of the group, he said, okay, then I'll go with you because I was a captain. I need to go and check the place and everything. So I'll go with you. The rest of people, they can wait until everything is good. We give them sign so they can come. We move by the time we touch ground we are stepping down of the bus in Tangier, I got sick, I got a fever. And we are going to this. House inside mud we have to take our shoes off walk inside mud to get into this house to sleep something like that An hour Sigro. I can tell anybody that I'm sick. I'm the captain.”
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“We didn't get in a boat. I went to Raba, Wusha. I went from Nado to Raba to meet them. Like, okay, when are we going to Tanshe? Because I've been in living in Tang for so long. Unto winter that I went back to Nado. So they are living in Raba, which is kind of like a city, and they have those little job of construction. I'm like, when are we going? I meet them there and like, okay, let's go. I'm like, oh, we are still working. We are going to get paid on Saturday. And this is when, like, I think this was like Tuesday. I'm like, bro, I'm not staying here on Saturday. Bro, my blood was boiling like. I'm like, man, I miss this. I could have been making it with the other guy that called me. So we...”
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“The redder can find you, he can see you because when the radar is going like this, And then he thinks it's infrared or something. And then he see movement. He will like peep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. When you have that silver foil, they can sieve.”
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“No, no, I didn't, but I was planning. We put a life jacket though. The one thing that we are very strict about is a life jacket. I didn't, but because over time you learn a lot of stuff and you know that Dos Froy radiation from like you know they have the red redder.”
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“Yeah, they got to Europe, like Brokam. I could have slept there anymore and I have a lot of call and people was like, yes, we want you to be our captain this, that, that. I'm like, I'm going, you know. And I didn't want any promise like, oh, we're going to do this by a boat in one week. No, I have a guy that we've been talking for a long time. He said, I have a boat already. I'm like, let's go.”
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“And then it's cold, it's freezing. So I think what was even scary the most was the coal. You would just get frozen out there, you know. So I stayed in the forest for like months months and once when the winter was by touching the end I had a friend that people, he was in Tang Tanche and then he reached out to me. He said a have a ship. I couldn't leave Danger. everything I get to the bus station and there was so much police and this I didn't want to end up in the desert in Uda I'm like okay just And then the next day we are running from the police from 4 a.m. to like maybe 4 p.m. We came back to our spot. I opened my phone I saw like twelve Miss Kong. I checked and then he was like it omitted it too was the guy that was calling me. I'm like them, I could have been making it too with them.”
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“We recruit back in the forest trying fences as just they during the winter because the water, I mean yes, you can try some crazy stuff but only when you see that there is an ounce of a chance but when you look at the oceans the big monster rising up with those waves you know that you cannot go through there's no way You can't do that. No, no”
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“The sixth attempt was close to the winter. We get caught. And I was disclosed we were already on the other side. We get caught by a army. It wasn't even like a I don't know how the Coast Guard, it wasn't even the Coast Guard, he was the army. With a big ship, and then we're just passing by going somewhere After three hours inside the ocean, we were paddling, we knew that we are getting there. And then we get Back in Morocco they know that we are gone. We made it. And at that time he was like, to winter the winter was coming the water wasn't stable anymore we couldn't attempt anymore And for me I tell myself that the day that I'm touching the ocean again, I'm not coming back ever. exactly what I was willing to do, but I'm like, it's not happening. This is it, you know. My frustration was. Up to the level. We're”
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“dream to make it to go have that box in, you know, that boxing career. that set up his stability for me and my family and my potential kids so they don't have to go to what I've been through you know so I knew that if I gave up I wouldn't be able to look at in myself in the mirror like this You would have been ashamed to live with myself. I couldn't live with myself. He was hot. You thought about it. You think about like, oh, maybe, maybe there's not a way, what for, like going back and then maybe not really have something to do and someday you see your child get sick and you feel powerless just as your parent were to you and like no that's not happening”
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“Blinds you. You couldn't see anything else except what you have, not what is in front. You cannot see anything in front of you except what you have in your mind. You could only see what is in your mind. And regardless what is in front of you, what the obstacle is in front of you, you can always see what's in front of in your mind. And nothing could stop you.”
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“Why couldn't I? Why shouldn't I try again? It was all about trying. And I think when your dream is so big, when you have something, it's hard to give up. You know, like you get to the point that You're capable of risking more for just a dream, which is something that a normal person will not understand. Like I ask myself now, why didn't I give up at that time? Why did I keep doing this? Why did I take those risks? Because there was a moment that even now I think about it, I'm like, that was stupid. It was like a dead sentence. You just get lucky from coming out there alive, you know, but I took those decisions. Your dream was so big that he...”
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“By his life and even till today, there's people out there doing the same thing. And even though he's getting harder and harder, I don't know how they do, but I don't want to find out. Horrible.”
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“No, because there have been financed to protect people from Euroboard. They have been financed by European Union or something like that, from holding you guys down there. So every time that they cash somebody, they make a report of that person that, okay, we cut somebody and then we send them back out of Morocco. They will just bring you to Algeria border in the desert and throw you guys and you will figure out your way.”
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“Because he still needed a captain, he sended somebody to organize, somebody that knows how to paddle, somebody know where we are going, somebody know how to organize for 10 people to get in the same boat from going from the ground to the ocean and then like how they get all those organizations. And then I practice, I did it so many times that I became an expert.”
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“I mean, it's not like the bot is a small inflatable boat that you can use in your swimming pool, stuff that they use in the swimming pool.”
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“Yeah, I try to climb a fence. I get out of those barbed wires on the floor once, and that was the time that I fell in the barbed wire. I tried to climb the fence, but the babwire on the fence was like I was trying to hold it and he was just catch my face like oh okay I see And I get to the point that I'm like, you know, I'd rather be alive without being a Europe instead of being dead in Europe. Like, wait, it's going to be another dialogue. It's not possible.”
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
“You run back, or some, by the time you run back, if he's a group of you, some people will fall in the bower because they didn't see or maybe you are in the front line, you see, but you can't go back because there are people in masks behind you coming. They just push. And then you fall inside the baby.”
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
“Yeah, and sometimes you prepare the attack, you see all those, you collect all those information, then as you are getting closer to the fence, you realize that there was a barbed wire. You couldn't just see from where you were at. You know, that maybe there's someone that is in the floor they dig like five meter long like this wide and then they throw barbed wires all the way then you you ran you ran by maybe 30 meter or 100 meter meter they can see you coming they know that you're coming now you are taking advantage of like because you're in a group of people and then you get closer and then you find like five meter bar you can jump five meter it's not possible”
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
“Yeah, for God to change shift and then he will see which box has the guard and which box does I have and then what time they come and this what time they go if they pray what time they go to pray and you need all those information before prepare a attack.”
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
“Only dirty metal, there's a boxes of God. Sometimes some boxes can be empty. But from where we are, you don't see. Need somebody to go there like a wig every time, read everything, monitor. all the information, you know, like the guard, how they've been how they're being changed because it's permanent but one person doesn't stay there 24 hours I think it's like eight hours so you know he has when he spotted a spot that there's not too much barbed wire then he'll be like okay there's a outlook very far there's an outlook from the spin side very far and then these boxes is there cut inside he might take him days to just find if find out if those boxes have God someday is gonna go by and then like wait they can stay in the same spot for like two days just to wait and then when the truck come to change ship”
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
“is high, so it's not possible with barbires. Without barriers? Yeah, that's good. And then the clean, the surrounded. Days, a failure of barbire somewhere. So it's very difficult. On de police side there is like a boxes of a guard. in like an interval, I don't know, maybe 20 meta.”
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
“where the spot that we picked, because it's about like 12 or 14 miles of fence with barbed wire. So we will have like an outlook guy that will go walk around all those fence and then like trying to identify a spot that there is not too much barbed wire or that the barbed wire has fell. when there's not a lot guard because there is guard on the morogan side and there is guard on the spin side and some way there is like three fences and then babwaires on like maybe the first one or the two There is not a chance that unless you can fly, you cannot go there. And it's like seven high.”
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
“Yeah, I tried above. I have a lot of scar on me, a lot of barbed wire scars on Those are babies, those you see my fingers in two. Like on my skin, you will find on my stomach here, on my feet a fine. I try. I have a lot of that. I tried to atem in the ocean like a six I fell six times.”
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