{"id":305509,"date":"2019-03-14T06:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=305509"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:33:45","slug":"francis-ngannou-details-the-day-he-left-his-village-in-cameroon-i-couldnt-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/francis-ngannou-details-the-day-he-left-his-village-in-cameroon-i-couldnt-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou details the day he left his village in Cameroon: &#8216;I couldn\u2019t say goodbye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Francis Ngannou is one of the most successful heavyweights in the UFC. Not all that long ago, however, he was struggling to get by in a remote corner of Cameroon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuelled by his unshakable ambition, Ngannou ultimately decided to leave Cameroon. After stopping for a time in Morocco, he ultimately wound up in France. But when he left his village, he had no idea where he was going to end up. He couldn&#8217;t even give his family a proper goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis Ngannou opened up on his harrowing departure from his former life in an incredible interview with Miesha Tate and Ryan McKinnell on Sirius XM&nbsp;(transcript via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Mania (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/3\/14\/18264904\/midnight-mania-francis-ngannou-never-said-goodbye-when-he-left-village-didnt-know-where-i-was-going\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Mania<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I couldn&#39;t tell anybody where I was going so I couldn&#39;t say goodbye to nobody&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@francis_ngannou<\/a> discusses his shocking departure from Africa to follow his dreams in the United states<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MieshaTate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MieshaTate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanMcKinnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RyanMcKinnell<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Muh61xIeTW\">pic.twitter.com\/Muh61xIeTW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MMA on SiriusXM (@MMAonSiriusXM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1105997632529412096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Francis Ngannou: It wasn\u2019t exciting because I didn\u2019t know where I was going! I didn\u2019t have a map. I couldn\u2019t even tell them goodbye, because when you say, \u2018okay, I\u2019m leaving\u2019, the first question is \u2018where are you going?\u2019 and I couldn\u2019t tell anybody where I am going, so I couldn\u2019t say goodbye to nobody. I just go visit my family. I stayed with my mom in my village for like three weeks. I was, like, looking at them like sometime like, this might be the last time that I\u2019m seeing them. Because, you know, some people go there and some never come back, they died.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Interviewer: Damn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ngannou: Basically I knew that if I tell them, no one will accept that. I always have crazy dream, they always saw me as very ambitious, like over high, and I was like, I\u2019m not gonna tell them, they know that people go there and someone die..<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Interviewers: What did you tell them?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ngannou: Nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Interviewer: You just disappeared?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ngannou: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ngannou: I left, and after three weeks I called, and they were like, you were scaring us&#8230; I was like, no, I\u2019m good, I\u2019m in Morocco&#8230;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1105997632529412096\"><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis Ngannou last fought in February, when he burst into title contention with a knockout win over the former champion Cain Velasquez. 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