“For starters, I kept asking, when will I be able to fight? I had an eight-fight contract and I wanted to work it out, but they wouldn’t let me because I didn’t want to sign another contract,” the Cameroonian heavyweight said in an interview with Dan Le Batard. “They knew that as soon as I fulfilled the contract, I would automatically be released. They used a dirty game to freeze me – they knew how much I was getting, literally pennies, and hoped that I would run out of money, I would have nothing to live on, and I would be forced to sign a contract.
“My contract was exclusive so I didn’t have any other income, so basically they kept me captive. They made it sound like I was asking for more money, but I didn’t want more money. If it was about more money, I would have signed the contract, because there really were more by the end of the story, but under the current agreement I received 100-120 thousand dollars.
Ten days ago, Francis Ngannou, who left the UFC as a free agent at the beginning of this year, officially announced that he was becoming a PFL fighter, where he would compete in the so-called superfight division. In addition, the Cameroonian became the head of the African division of the organization and received a position on the advisory board of the PFL.