Francis Ngannou confided in a few days of his fight against Ciryl Gane at UFC 270.
For many, the Frenchman will start as the favorite of this confrontation (January 22) for the heavyweight belt of the great MMA organization because Fernand Lopez, his trainer, is the former coach of the Cameroonian. The latter precisely returned to this aspect of the confrontation.
“Well, I think it’s quite the opposite,” Francis Ngannou told the UFC in comments translated by La Sueur. I don’t think Fernand Lopez knows anything about me. I think I am a completely different athlete. On the other hand, I know everything about him, I can literally think like him. I know what his strategy is, I can get inside his head and visualize exactly what he’s doing, because I know the man. I know how he thinks, more than he can imagine.”
Info or intox, it’s a real psychological war through the media that has been in place for a few months through this story. As a reminder, the Cameroonian rubbed shoulders with the MMA Factory in Paris and had Ciryl Gane as sparring.
Ciryl Gane’s interview in L’Arène Podcast