{"id":283410,"date":"2018-08-22T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283410"},"modified":"2018-08-22T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:55:37","slug":"coach-agrees-with-dana-whites-claim-that-francis-ngannou-has-an-ego-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/coach-agrees-with-dana-whites-claim-that-francis-ngannou-has-an-ego-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach agrees with Dana White&#8217;s claim that Francis Ngannou has an ego problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Francis Ngannou gave up a decision to Derrick Lewis at UFC 226 \u2014 in inarguably one of the worst UFC fights ever \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/opinion-dana-white-says-francis-ngannou-has-an-ego-problem-but-has-he-looked-in-the-mirror\/\">UFC President Dana White suggested that the former title challenger was being hindered by an ego problem.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francis Ngannou&#8217;s long-time coach Fernand Lopez agrees with the UFC President on this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MMAnews Live #67: Lopez, Pawlak, Bobrowski\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKID-OUyEfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I can say is Dana was speaking about Francis\u2019 ego is probably one of the truths that I witnessed that Dana White said,\u201d Lopez told MMANews.pl (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/coach-fernand-lopez-says-dana-white-was-telling-the-truth-about-francis-ngannou-having-an-ego-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMANytt<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s probably the only truth that I know for a fact, that\u2019s a fact. Why am I saying that? I\u2019m saying that because Ngannou is like a brother for me and when you\u2019re dealing with a brother, problems with your brother, you have to be honest with your brother so he can be a better man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to make Francis a better man, there are some people that have to have the bad role. The bad job is to tell Ngannou \u2018You have a big ego and you have changed with the time.\u2019 That\u2019s the truth. I had the conversation with Ngannou and I said to him \u2018You have changed my friend, you have changed. You\u2019re not the same anymore. Your ego\u00a0is killing you and it\u2019s just about your ego.\u2019 That\u2019s the thing like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez also opened up on the recent setbacks that Francis Ngannou has experienced \u2014 the decision loss to Lewis, and his disappointing decision loss to former champion Stipe Miocic. In Lopez&#8217;s eyes, Ngannou simply didn&#8217;t stick do the game plan against Miocic. The Lewis fight, meanwhile, is more difficult for him to comment on because Ngannou was training at Syndicate MMA, rather than Lopez&#8217;s MMA Factory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the time he was in Vegas he was still in my team,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cHe never left the team, the membership. Every time he was asked if he was an MMA Factory member he didn\u2019t let me down on that. He was always saying that. The only problem was, there\u2019s never been a problem between us. During the last fight, we decided to make the camp with Syndicate MMA because the gym was close to the UFC Institute. So for his last fight, his mentor was John Wood of Syndicate. He called and said to me and asked me if I could come and assist him as a friend and as\u00a0an assistant coach, which made sense and that was a good thing. But what I\u2019m saying is the ego can make you go the wrong way and hurt people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMyself I got hurt with a lot of dedication to Francis\u2019 career, I got hurt, a lot. When Francis lost the fight with Stipe, no one ever heard Francis say he lost because he didn\u2019t follow the gameplan. He did the opposite of the gameplan that we worked. That loss for Francis, for the belt, had a huge impact\u00a0for\u00a0him, but also myself and my gym. Francis being world champion means that I\u2019m a champion coach and that means the MMA Factory is a champion training camp. We missed that because he did not follow the gameplan. He followed the gameplans until the title shot and then the next fight (against Lewis) he was in Syndicate MMA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Lopez added that he wishes Francis Ngannou would have defended him after his loss to Miocic. People were pretty hard on Ngannou and his team after this performance, and Lopez wishes Ngannou would have owned up to not sticking to the strategy that the team developed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen all these people are saying what a bad coach I am, it would\u2019ve been nice for Francis to back me up and say \u2018No guys, this guy did his job, this guy tried to help me with the best gameplan that he could and he gave me the thing that I should do and I didn\u2019t do that,\u201d Lopez continued. \u201cInstead of saying that he just stayed quiet and people were killing us saying how stupid could I be to just keep training Francis on the feet and not on the wrestling and not the ground game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just crazy because the MMA Factory was building Francis a\u00a0lot\u00a0time ago and for this and the wrestling and the ground game was taking almost 80-percent of his training, but because whenever the television come in the gym we were showcasing everything on the pads because it looked good for TV. We didn\u2019t show Francis struggling or sharing the thing that he\u2019s working on, on the ground. We only just showed to everyone what he was good at so they didn\u2019t see any weakness in Francis, but actually, we were working so hard. We were taking all the best ground game guys in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the fight as a team, as a team, we lost the fight,\u201d Lopez continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a fault of mine in losing the Stipe fight because it\u2019s the team losing the fight. I don\u2019t want to say only Francis lost that fight, but Francis didn\u2019t follow the gameplan and it was up to himself to say he didn\u2019t follow the gameplan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Francis Ngannou&#8217;s coach Fernand Lopez? Do you think Francis Ngannou has an ego problem?<\/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 8\/22\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Francis Ngannou gave up a decision to Derrick Lewis at UFC 226 \u2014 in inarguably one of the worst UFC fights ever \u2014 UFC President Dana White suggested that the former title challenger was being hindered by an ego problem. Francis Ngannou&#8217;s long-time coach Fernand Lopez agrees with the UFC President on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":283412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10646],"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>Coach agrees with Dana White&#039;s claim that Francis Ngannou has an ego problem | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Coach Fernand Lopez agrees with Dana White&#039;s claims that former UFC heavyweight title challenger Francis Ngannou has an ego problem.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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