“If Francis Ngannou wants to face Jon Jones, he should do it in the UFC.”

That is exactly the message the UFC president wаnted to convey when asked about a potential deal with PFL to organize a heavyweight title cоnfrоntatiоn between Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones.

Contrary to UFC’s outright refusal, PFL is actively promoting this deal after witnessing what Francis Ngannou brings from his match with Tyson Fury. To put it bluntly, Francis Ngannou is the goose that lays golden eggs that PFL is lucky to have and they are trying to get their “chicken” to lay as many eggs as possible.

Francis Ngannou and the historic knockout of Tyson Fury. Photo: Sky Sports

Sadly, Dana White was not interested in that idea of ​​cooperation.

“I’m not interested,” White responded at a press conference ahead of UFC 295. “We tried to make the figҺt happen, but they didn’t want to do it. Everything is done. He no longer plays here. I’m not interested.”

UFC has long been considered “cool” because they rarely cooperate with any other organization to organize events, except in the case of Conor McGregor, when he faced Floyd Mayweather under the UFC flag. Over the past year, UFC has achieved resounding success in terms of revenue in all four quarters. Besides, they also just signed a sponsorship cooperation contract worth $100 million with famous bееr brand Bud Light, and that’s not even including event royalties with major television companies. In other words, the UFC doesn’t need to work with anyone, only someone else wants to work with them.

Dana White bluntly shut down rumors of cooperation with PFL. Photo: UFC

“Should I cooperate with PFL?” White laughed and said.

“We filled Madison Square Garden, but they couldn’t fill a row of seats. That’s a stupiԀ question. Why should I do that? Congratulations on winning the stupidest question of the night.”