At UFC 226, hulking Cameroonian-French heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou will step into the cage with titan of a similar stature: American behemoth Derrick Lewis.<\/p>\n
This bout will mark Ngannou’s opportunity to rebound from a tough loss to UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic \u2014 an experience he assures he learned from<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI collected a lot of experience and I learned a lot from that fight,\u201d Ngannou told\u00a0Helen Yee <\/a>last week (transcribed by Jew Meshew for MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThis is something that would have happened anyway someday because my rise was very fast, so I jumped a lot of things. I didn\u2019t discover somethings that would catch me later. At some point I can even say it\u2019s the best thing that happened because if it didn\u2019t happen in that fight, it might happen in the future. Now it happened this time. We take it, we learn it, we stand up, we move forward. That\u2019s how life is.\u201d<\/p>\n