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5.15am
Batié, CameroonIncredible scenes from the hometown of @Francis_Ngannou
as they celebrate the crowning of a new UFC Heavyweight
Champion!( Mathieu Pennella) pic.twitter.com/NSA57bUsmA
— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc)
March 28, 2021
It may have been in the wee hours of morning in Batie, Cameroon,
when Francis
Ngannou captured UFC heavyweight gold, but that didn’t prevent
his home country from launching into a raucous celebration.
Video footage shows Ngannou’s countrymen cheering wildly after “The
Predator” knocked out Stipe
Miocic in the UFC 260 main event on Saturday at the UFC Apex in
Las Vegas. At the time of Ngannou’s victory, it was 5:15 a.m. local
time in Batie.
Ngannou was born in Batie and worked in the mines at a young age.
After he became interested in combat sports, he moved to France
with designs on pursuing a boxing career before he discovered MMA.
Ngannou current lives in Las Vegas, where he trains at Xtreme
Couture. He joined Israel
Adesanya and Kamaru
Usman as the third African-born champion on the UFC roster.
Coincidentally, Usman was in his corner on Saturday.
“They are celebrating,” Ngannou said shortly after his win. “I just
called my mom, I couldn’t talk to her. I can’t talk to anybody in
Cameroon right now. It’s going crazy. It’s amazing. It’s a good
craziness, it’s for a good reason. Last time it was a bad one, a
lot of tears, but now it’s just tears of happiness.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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