UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou surprised many people when he got in the ring with Tyson Fury after his big knockout victory on Saturday. Chael Sonnen gave an interesting theory on the way Dana White felt after seeing that moment.

Francis Ngannou has been in serious negotiations with the UFC as he's looking to make a fight with Tyson Fury happen. Chael Sonnen recently spoke out about the situation and admitted Dana White couldn't have been thrilled with the in-ring appearance.

“I would imagine that Dana probably felt betrayed,” former UFC fighter Sonnen said on his YouTube channel. “He probably had his feelings hurt. He would never tell you, he’d probably tell you he was pissed off or he didn’t care at all. But he probably was betrayed a little bit. Francis Ngannou was there [watching Fury]. Francis knew he was going, Francis is under contract with Dana. Did Francis’ team let Dana know he was gonna be there? That he was gonna get in the ring for somebody else? That this was gonna be broadcast around the world? Because when Francis got in there, the announcers were already queued. Those announcers knew and they knew to sell it.”

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Chael Sonnen also spoke out about the contract UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou might have and was surprised to see it would expire at the end of the year. The negotiations with Dana White are about to get very interesting.

“This is going to go as smoothly as both sides want it to go,” Sonnen said about the negotiations with the UFC. “I don’t know what Francis’ contract is in full disclosure. But I know what my contract says and I know what everybody else who fought at the time I was fighting said because they were boilerplate. You just changed the fee, you changed the execution dates, and you inserted a name. In my case, Chael Sonnen, and I had what everybody else had.

“Those contracts do not just expire the way the media has led you to believe. The media has led you guys to believe that the end of this year, I think it’s December of this year, Francis is free to go. That’s not the contract I had.”