It is well documented that while UFC heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou has no problems with Ciryl Gane, he does have beef with his coach, Fernand Lopez. The issues between the two continue regarding the sparring footage that was released recently.

Francis Ngannou made some bold claims about the footage and wasn't too happy with his former team. The UFC champion made sure to clear the air.

“When I saw that footage, my first reaction was laughing,” Ngannou said on his YouTube channel (h/t Bloody Elbow). “Because I know exactly what happened at those training sessions. But this is the thing. When they want to like, do some highlight, they always choose the part of the video that they use. And they have a lot of videos like that because, at the time, they were filming our training session to promote him, his fight, and everything. So, there was a lot of footage from those few training sessions. But a lot of them never came out and would never come out. And I know for a fact that they will never come out.

“It’s about [making] him look better and make me look bad, to prove that he’s the man. This is the thing, I really get intrigued by those stuff sometimes. And then how they just control people’s mind, conditioning them to think. And they just think like, suddenly they just shift from one way to other way of thinking. I’m like, ‘Wow, how easy is that to manipulate people,’ which they’re really good at, manipulation. But at the end of the day, as I said, we both know, everyone knows for a fact.”

Francis Ngannou has nothing but respect for the current interim UFC heavyweight champion, Ciryl Gane. The beef with his team keeps getting bigger with each passing day.