{"id":267943,"date":"2018-01-16T06:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267943"},"modified":"2018-01-16T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:28:38","slug":"francis-ngannou-will-earn-significant-payday-ufc-220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-will-earn-significant-payday-ufc-220\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou will earn a significant payday at UFC 220"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, in the main event of UFC 220, surging French-Cameroonian sensation Francis Ngannou will get his anticipated crack at Stipe Miocic and the UFC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>This title fight will serve as the crescendo of a Ngannou&#8217;s rocket-fuelled rise through the UFC ranks. In roughly two years, the hulking knockout artist has evolved from relative unknown to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-hunt-mmas-first-homegrown-heavyweight-superstar-1\/\">downright MMA star<\/a> \u2013 and he&#8217;s already being paid accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having fought just six times in the UFC&#8217;s Octagon, Ngannou is already making money typically reserved for the UFC&#8217;s uppermost echelon of earners. Speaking to France&#8217;s SFR Sport this week, he revealed that he&#8217;ll be making a hefty $500,000 for his battle with Miocic. For context, Miocic was making a paltry $65,000 to show and $65,000 to win at the time of his crack at the UFC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3k76ldethbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Ngannou also seems to expect much bigger paydays in the future. Speaking on the massive salaries earned by soccer players, the heavyweight star explained that the only reason he hasn&#8217;t passed the million-dollar mark yet is that his earnings haven&#8217;t been able to keep pace with his light speed rise through the rankings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bi4QFs\">\u201cYou must understand that my ascension in the rankings was very fast, but the numbers didn\u2019t follow,\u201d Ngannou said.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Ngannou made his UFC debut in December of 2015, when he scored a thudding knockout win over Luis Henrique. In his next outing, he earned a doctor stoppage over current contender <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-curtis-blaydes-explains-surprised-francis-ngannous-ko-alistair-overeem\/\">Curtis Blaydes<\/a>. Next, he thumped\u00a0Bojan Mihajlovi\u0107 to a first-round KO, before tapping Anthony Hamilton with a kimura, levelling Andrei Arlovski with a first-round punch, and most recently, putting Alistair Overeem down in a 2017 knockout of the year contender. Ngannou is 11-1 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Francis Ngannou can topple Stipe Miocic to win the UFC heavyweight title this weekend?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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 1\/16\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, in the main event of UFC 220, surging French-Cameroonian sensation Francis Ngannou will get his anticipated crack at Stipe Miocic and the UFC heavyweight title. This title fight will serve as the crescendo of a Ngannou&#8217;s rocket-fuelled rise through the UFC ranks. 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