It feels like it’s been years since the UFC’s last pay-per-view event. Sure there was a fight night last Saturday, but that didn’t go off without a hitch or two. I know everyone else is just like me right now, itchin’ like a heroin addict. But instead of the black tar, our drug is incredible feats of violence by superhuman freak-of-nature athletes. And in less than a week, we’re gonna be shooting that s*%! right up our veins. Why may you ask? Because we’re getting an absolute banger to start the year off. Francis Ngannou, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world is taking on interim champ Ciryl Gane at UFC 270 later this week. Yes I said undisputed. Because there was no real reason that an interim heavyweight championship was even necessary. Was it due to Uncle Dana being pissed about Ngannou and his management situation? Probably. Upset about the Jon Jones fight not coming to fruition? Could be. Are we upset that we now get this great heavyweight matchup? Not a chance in Hades. It is what it is. Now the Predator is just gonna have to prove to everyone why he’s the champion. On the other end, there’s Gane. He’s riding high off of momentum, and he hasn’t really taken a ton of damage so far in the UFC. That’ll be interesting to see come Saturday night. His chin will probably get tested like we haven’t seen before. I don’t necessarily think either of them are gonna get slept but I mean how else is this gonna end? Definitely gonna be a finish one way or another. Ngannou is starting out as a slight underdog, but I don’t think that’s gonna mean a whole lot. Maybe it will for Ngannou’s mental approach, but I think the fight itself will be reasonably balanced. The real questions are gonna be after the fight.
It hasn’t been a secret Ngannou’s management and Dana White haven’t been seeing eye-to-eye recently and the Predator’s contract is gonna be a real hot topic when the fight is over. Ngannou’s contract with the UFC will be over if he loses to Gane. But for hypothetical purposes, let’s say he wins. There’s a championship clause where his contact will extend for another year or three fights; whichever happens first. But Ngannou has made it abundantly clear that he won’t fight again based on his current pay. He wants his green, and I don’t blame him. This is where it gets juicy. The heavyweight king has also made it clear that he wants to try his hand at boxing after this unification fight. I mean he wants a huge payday. After Mystic Mac fought Floyd Mayweather and quadrupled his net worth, it made a lot of UFC fighters question things. Then the whole Jake Paul boxing old fighters and them making significantly more from one boxing match than they could ever thought in a UFC fight. So if the UFC won’t let him box then the situation is gonna get especially sticky. But I think these are issues for Sunday morning, not the week leading up. Besides, if Gane wins then this situation might get solved much quicker than we all thought.
The real sad thing about all this is the fact that there’s another championship fight happening that night, but all anyone (including myself, no bias here) is talking about is Franics Ngannou and Ciryl Gane. But all I know is that if Ngannou loses, he’ll be Gane, and that’ll be quite Ciryl.
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