{"id":248332,"date":"2017-09-02T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=248332"},"modified":"2017-09-02T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:47:21","slug":"francis-ngannou-fight-heavyweight-november-ufc-217-december-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alistair-overeem\/francis-ngannou-fight-heavyweight-november-ufc-217-december-219\/","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Overeem Says &#8216;Let&#8217;s Do This&#8217; Fight With Francis Ngannou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uX0EhtUFu80\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Francis Ngannou is a guy that no one seems to want to fight. He was supposed to fight Junior dos Santos at the upcoming UFC 215 card, but JDS was pulled due to an unfortunate potential anti-doping violation by USADA. Since then, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alistair-overeem\/francis-ngannou-calls-out-ufc-215\/\">called out Alistair Overeem<\/a> and even UFC heavyweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-heavyweight-ufc-216\/\">champion Stipe Miocic<\/a> himself. Neither accepted the fight. It looks like it was just bad timing though, because Overeem just announced at a recent Q &amp; A that he&#8217;s down to fight Ngannou. Not only that, but they could square off in the Octagon at UFC 217 or UFC 219.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou\/status\/901165201273126912<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrancis is a very strong guy and he\u2019s doing really good. I think he\u2019s on a six fight win streak in the UFC. I\u2019m open. I don&#8217;t have a fight booked so I&#8217;m open for anybody.\u00a0Well, I don\u2019t take time off, I\u2019m always training, my weight is on point. I\u2019m thinking November, December. I just became a dad again for the third time so first things first, last month was family time, ever since my fight with Werdum. But yeah, I\u2019m open. If the UFC call me and say lets do this, then I\u2019ll certainly say yes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMA_Jim\/status\/903640329445888000<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t really pay attention to the rankings. I think [Francis Ngannou] is five and I\u2019m number one. It is what it is. I see, that as an opponent, he\u2019s a big guy, he\u2019s a strong guy. I think he\u2019s bigger than me. He\u2019s a challenge and I just see it as a motivation \u2013 somebody trying to take something away from me. It\u2019s not going to work.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Alistair Overeem during the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmauno.com\/alistair-overeem-open-fight-francis-ngannou-later-year\/\">UFC Rotterdam Q &amp; A<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Ngannou being pulled off UFC 215 since he could find an opponent, we could be seeing him fight Alistair Overeem as early as November or December. A fight of that proportion \u2013 both literally and figuratively \u2013 would be welcome on either the stacked UFC 217 card headlined by Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre, or the sure-to-be gigantic UFC 219 event. Let&#8217;s just hope we see that beast in the Octagon again soon, Ngannou looks in terrifying shape.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">262 LBS &#x1f4aa;&#x1f4aa;&#x1f4aa; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AXSPWWJ0bn\">pic.twitter.com\/AXSPWWJ0bn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francis NGannou (@francis_ngannou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou\/status\/903716868422123520\">September 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/2\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou is a guy that no one seems to want to fight. 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