{"id":272748,"date":"2018-03-19T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272748"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:17:49","slug":"derrick-lewis-fires-back-at-francis-ngannou-its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derrick-lewis\/derrick-lewis-fires-back-at-francis-ngannou-its-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis fires back at Francis Ngannou: It&#8217;s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, brick-fisted heavyweight contender Derrick Lewis has made repeated callouts of recent heavyweight title challenger Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, Ngannou <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/breaking-francis-ngannou-finally-answers-derrick-lewiss-callouts\/\">finally responded<\/a> to these callouts, telling Lewis to have his manager contact the UFC about this prospective showdown.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgeMfEmFI75\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Derrick has been talking some of his shit while I was [taking time] off,&#8221; Ngannou said in his long-awaited response to Lewis. &#8220;Can someone please let him know that I&#8217;m here now, so if he really wants me, he should send his manager to deal with [UFC].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Lewis has responded to Ngannou&#8217;s Sunday afternoon post. He fired back at the French-Cameroonian fighter in a Monday morning Instagram post of his own.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BggXoornzi9\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Francis Ngannou] It\u2019s about time someone translated to you that I\u2019ve been wanting this fight since last year,&#8221; Lewis said in his post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrancis, that guy is real ignorant, don\u2019t even worry about that guy,&#8221; Lewis <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derrick-lewis\/derrick-lewis-francis-ngannou-forget-african-booty-scratcher-aint-worried\/\">said<\/a> in one of his first outbursts directed at Ngannou. &#8220;I would love to fight him after this fight because he\u2019s been talking a lot of shit anyway, like he\u2019s the shit. Fuck that guy. I will fight his ass after I fight Mark Hunt. I wanted to fight him before this fight. He\u2019s over there talking about I\u2019m too slow and this and that. I\u2019m going to bang his ass out. He is overyhyped. 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