Dana White gives an autopsy on "the abomination" Ngannou vs. Lewis are fighting at UFC 226

LAS VEGAS – UFC President Dana White thought that the excitement that preceded and followed the main event of UFC 226 would erase the memory of what happened between Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou

. A bad fight – what are you going to do? White said at the post-fight press conference at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

As for the fighters who entered the cage, White n & # Was not nearly as bloody, but Lewis (20-5 MMA, 11-3 UFC), who won a unanimous decision, managed to do better than Ngannou (11-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) in the # 39; estimate of the executive of the UFC – although he called the fight an "abomination."

White does not agree with the Lewis' badessment – as shown by the promotion immediately after – that his stock collapsed as a result of the fight largely beaten

Ngannou? White's performance indicated that it was the result of a defect of character.

Ngannou "let his ego run away with him" after an uprising fast where White p "It was going to be the next guy."

"Big time," White said. "I can tell you that his ego ran with him.The minute that happens to you in the fighting game, you start to collapse.I have had personal encounters with him, like d & # 39; other people in the organization, and the ego of this man was so out of control. "

The executive quoted Ngannou's decision to fly to France before an unfortunate title shot against … The ex-champion Stipe Miocic as evidence of the fall of the Cameroonian fighter

"The ego is what hurts Francis Ngannou," concludes White