INTERVIEW (UFC): FRANCIS NGANNOU
Fight Disciples Podcast
Fight Disciples Network
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is it is it. |
| 0:07.0 | Like disciples. |
| 0:10.0 | Francis, thank you so much for being on the show once again my friend. |
| 0:13.0 | I want to start if I may by talking about the rise of African mixed martial arts |
| 0:20.0 | because what does it feel like being a bit of a trailblazer |
| 0:23.4 | yourself and Israel Adiseigner and Kamaro Usman obviously inspiring the next |
| 0:27.8 | generation of African fighters to come through you must be incredibly proud of that? |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah I mean like seeing what we were five years ago and see how far we have we have grown. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean yeah there is some price to take on it. |
| 0:45.0 | He has been, he has been a digital for Emily in Africa and then yeah I hope that more freely were for the future. |
| 1:01.0 | What's the reaction being like back home to your career? |
| 1:05.4 | Because you obviously made that big decision to leave Cameroon and |
| 1:10.8 | obviously go on your journey through Europe and end up in Las Vegas and |
| 1:13.7 | you're currently at the UFC doing your thing but what's the reaction been |
| 1:16.7 | like from friends and family back home and people that you grew up around? |
| 1:20.8 | The reaction is very emotional because that you know |
| 1:27.0 | grew up around. The reaction is very emotional because this has been like you know this has been like the first, not only the first, the first time somebody from the |
| 1:40.4 | hometown did something like it but obviously like he was unexpected nobody could |
| 1:48.6 | have believed that access but today it's still unbelievable for some people so yes they are very amazed |
| 2:02.2 | very proud, and couldn't be, I couldn't be more happy with myself and how things go, you know. So that's kind of like the thing that |
| 2:19.3 | that's kind of like how he feels to me like getting this reaction which at some point became my motivation you, like when I would think about, when I think about how they react and how they take it, I mean, it's something amazing, it's something that can just push you to go far to pass your limit, |
| 2:52.0 | you know, to escape your limit. |
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