Michel Pereira recently detailed an encounter he and his team had with UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Things got heated between the two of them back in January after their respective fights.
Speaking to Canal Encarada, Michel Pereira talked about the altercation with Francis Ngannou. Things went down on the weekend of UFC 270 where both men were fighting on the main card.
“Coutinho, let me tell you something,” the UFC welterweight said (h/t Ngannou_MMA on Instagram). “We celebrated my victory at the hotel (over Fiallo at UFC 270 – approx.), had fun. And we are such guys – we move only with music, we constantly light up, even when we cut weight. I always rock, and my guys are the same. Constantly moving noisily, having parties. Guerra was drinking there non-stop, everyone was joking, bantering. And our room was next door to Ngannou.
And since the room was small, and there were a lot of people, someone suggested: “Let's sit in the hallway?”. And we sat down in the corridor, and immediately came out to us – who would you think? Ngannou,” the Brazilian UFC fighter continued. “The guys look at each other like that: “Wow, Ngannou is coming.” He comes up and says, “Hey, do you think it's real to fall asleep when there's such a noise? How do I sleep, huh?”. Honestly, at that moment I felt uncomfortable. I was after a hard fight, my nose was broken, my legs were beaten off. If Ngannou started a fight, what would I do to him? The team is already all drunk, they wouldn't have helped me in any way. And I just gave the back one. It's so huge… And we are: “Buddy, it's okay, we'll slow down now.” We somehow gave up too easily. And we turned down the music, began to talk more quietly.
Honestly, Ngannou made me angry,” the Brazilian UFC fighter said. “Why couldn't he address us politely? He was lucky that I was all beaten up and couldn't do anything, especially for a guy of this size. I don't even want to think about it. I know he's a modest, nice guy, but why couldn't he tell us politely, “Hey, guys, could you…” I didn't like the way he spoke to us. You need to be polite to people. If he had addressed us politely, we would have retained respect for him forever. And so – we just fell silent. “What the f*ck?! Do you think you can fall asleep with such noise?”. Bro, we were just drinking… You have to be polite to people. I could have answered him too: “Bro, go f*ck. Who are you anyway?””
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