{"id":444378,"date":"2022-04-26T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=444378"},"modified":"2022-04-26T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T07:33:18","slug":"chael-sonnen-believes-dana-white-likely-felt-betrayed-by-francis-ngannou-stepping-in-the-ring-with-tyson-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-believes-dana-white-likely-felt-betrayed-by-francis-ngannou-stepping-in-the-ring-with-tyson-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen believes Dana White likely felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by Francis Ngannou stepping in the ring with Tyson Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA analyst Chael Sonnen believes Dana White may have felt betrayed by Francis Ngannou appearing in the ring with Tyson Fury on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, one of the biggest combat sports events of the year went down at Wembley Stadium in London, England. A crowd of over 94,000 people were in attendance to see Tyson Fury defend The Ring and WBC heavyweight titles against Dillian Whyte and in the end, &#8216;The Gypsy King&#8217; made it look easy before securing a sixth-round knockout win over his rival.<\/p>\n<p>After the bout, Fury welcomed Francis Ngannou into the ring <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyson-fury-shoots-down-fighting-the-winner-of-usyk-joshua-2-expresses-interest-in-exhibition-bout-with-francis-ngannou\/\">and hinted<\/a> at the two squaring off in an exhibition match of some kind later this year.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of fans wondered how they&#8217;d be able to get that made and Chael Sonnen was one of them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hoUGyp3nALo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implying<\/a> that UFC president Dana White probably wasn&#8217;t very happy about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyson Fury retires form boxing while standing next to Francis Ngannou\u2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hoUGyp3nALo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI would imagine that Dana probably felt betrayed. He probably had his feelings hurt. He would never tell you, he\u2019d probably tell you he was pissed off or he didn\u2019t care at all. But he probably was betrayed, a little bit. Francis Ngannou was there [watching Tyson Fury]. Francis knew he was going, Francis is under contract with Dana. Did Francis\u2019 team let Dana know he was gonna be there? That he was gonna get in the ring for somebody else? That this was gonna be broadcast around the world? Because when Francis got in there, the announcers were already queued. Those announcers knew and they knew to sell it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Will we see Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou? Do you agree with Chael Sonnen&#8217;s assessment of Dana White?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA analyst Chael Sonnen believes Dana White may have felt betrayed by Francis Ngannou appearing in the ring with Tyson Fury on Saturday night. Over the weekend, one of the biggest combat sports events of the year went down at Wembley Stadium in London, England. A crowd of over 94,000 people were in attendance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":404219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10104,10112,10646,10348,39610],"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>Sonnen believes White felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by Francis Ngannou and Tyson Fury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MMA analyst Chael Sonnen believes Dana White may have felt betrayed by Francis Ngannou appearing in the ring with Tyson Fury.\" \/>\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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