Francis Ngannou on Growing Up in Cameroon, Coming to UFC Late in Life, and the Desire for Change

Winging It With Vince Carter

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Vince and Annie are joined by UFC contender Francis Ngannou to talk about the UFC restarting. They also discuss his childhood in Cameroon, moving to France to become a fighter, and being homeless for most of his early career. Then they discuss Ngannou's booming career in the States, and the demand for social and institutional change in the U.S. after the killing of George Floyd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wing It's Podcast.
0:02.0	Podcast.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome into Winging It,
0:09.0	part of the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I'm your host Annie Finberg, joined by my co-host Vince Carter.
0:13.0	B. C. in the house. How you doing?
0:15.0	Good, how are you?
0:17.0	Pretty good, pretty good.
0:18.0	Good. We are excited to let you know that our guest tonight,
0:22.0	hand chosen by yours truly, because I am a UFC fan.
0:25.6	Francis Inganu. Hello, Annie, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Thank you for joining,
0:31.0	are you in Vegas right Are you in Vegas?
0:34.0	That means the weather's good there.
0:37.0	Excuse me, guys, I just want to greet things first because I mean I didn't know him before because green up in Africa we
0:47.8	didn't follow basketball and then when I found out where who he is I mean man we are such a legend like
0:56.9	incredibly thank you very much video I'm like okay so how this I mean I'm like six I'm six foot almost five I can
1:06.2	done I mean I don't practice but to see the way you do it how
1:11.8	at later you are, one of the best things ever I haven't seen.
1:18.0	And when I saw that, and that's when my body, Randy, told me me his nickname half man half amazing I'm like yeah I think
1:29.2	he should just be like amazing.
1:32.0	Appreciate it man, thank you.
1:35.0	And also if you wouldn't be like a Jordan, I mean like if they want someone had the
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