{"id":280292,"date":"2018-07-08T06:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=280292"},"modified":"2018-07-08T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T14:30:43","slug":"dana-white-gives-his-take-on-derrick-lewis-and-francis-ngannous-ufc-226-snoozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-gives-his-take-on-derrick-lewis-and-francis-ngannous-ufc-226-snoozer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White gives his take on Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou&#8217;s UFC 226 snoozer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the early vantage point, Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis&#8217;s UFC 226 co-main event battle was anticipated in the way that we might anticipate two asteroids colliding. The matchup seemed to guarantee violent, Octagon-shaking chaos, no matter who won.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, we got one of the worst fights ever: a slow, action-free fight between two gun-shy heavyweights who looked more like line dancing partners than opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Post-fight, UFC President Dana White discussed this snoozer, which Lewis won by decision. He, like the rest of us, was shocked that two of the UFC&#8217;s most notorious knockout artists could produce such a terrible fight. But he thinks he knows why it went down the way it did.<\/p>\n<p>In his eyes, ego was the probable cause of Ngannou&#8217;s complete unwillingness to throw a punch:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that his ego absolutely did run away with him,&#8221; White said at the UFC 226 post-fight press conference (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/07\/dana-white-gives-post-mortem-on-abomination-ngannou-vs-lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>). &#8220;The minute that happens to you in the fight game, you start to fall apart. I had some personal encounters with him, as did other people in the organization, and this guy\u2019s ego was so out of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEgo is what hurt Francis Ngannou,\u201d White concluded.<\/p>\n<p>And Lewis? White believes he was slowed down by lingering back problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a fun guy \u2013 he\u2019s funny,\u201d White said of Lewis. \u201cWhen he gets in there and throws, the fights are exciting. But he always has problems with his back. And that\u2019s going to be a problem. You don\u2019t want to go in there with a bad back against [New UFC heavyweight champ Daniel] Cormier. But I like him, and I don\u2019t think his stock dropped at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight is the last time he was in a boring fight. The card was so good, people will forget about that. And the heavyweight championship was so good, it was immediately erased from people\u2019s memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Dana White&#8217;s explanation of Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou&#8217;s heavyweight snooze fest?<\/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 7\/8\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the early vantage point, Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis&#8217;s UFC 226 co-main event battle was anticipated in the way that we might anticipate two asteroids colliding. The matchup seemed to guarantee violent, Octagon-shaking chaos, no matter who won. In the end, however, we got one of the worst fights ever: a slow, action-free fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":277321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,10239],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White gives his take on Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou&#039;s UFC 226 snoozer | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White reacts to Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis&#039; abysmal UFC 226 co-main event heavyweight snooze fest.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-gives-his-take-on-derrick-lewis-and-francis-ngannous-ufc-226-snoozer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White gives his take on Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou&#039;s UFC 226 snoozer | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White reacts to Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis&#039; 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