UFC welterweight Matt Brown isn’t convinced by Dana White’s side of the story regarding Francis Ngannou. More specifically, Brown is skeptical about the notion that Ngannou wants to fight inferior opponents elsewhere, but he knows that the UFC president is simply controlling the narrative for the “lowest common denominator”. Brown expanded on this idea in a recent episode of The Fighter vs The Writer.
“If you think of politicians or Dana [White] speaking, you’re speaking to the lowest common denominator here. You’re not speaking to the people that are educated.
Matt Brown: “Lowest Common Denominator” Believes ANYTHING Dana White Says
You’re speaking to the casuals. Those are the people you’re pandering to the most when you’re saying stuff like that. A lot of them probably believe it to be honest. They’ll buy into anything because they don’t know the ins and outs of it.
It’s very similar to how politicians say different things. They’re just saying things that the mainstream mass people are going to buy into.
Those who really know, know Francis isn’t scared of anyone. We’ll have listeners on here that will understand and they’ll listen to us and say they’re right. But there’s millions of other people out there who will buy it.”
Brown also pointed out that the UFC has lost a big name with this dispute. “I can’t think of a bigger loss. I think Francis is either in his prime or very close to his prime. He’s the champion. He smashed the top guys in his weight class. I can’t think of anyone [who was a bigger loss].”
Brown believes that an elite heavyweight with a strong brand like Francis Ngannou has plenty more options without the restrictions of a UFC contract.
“He knows in the UFC, this is his only option — he’s got to fight the next toughest guy and that’s how you make money and however much they’re able to pump up the next guy is however much money he can make. Now at least he has options.
If he goes out there and does some great things, he can be one of the wealthiest athletes in the world. If he goes out and loses or something, of course, his stock will go down and it won’t be that much. It seems to me that he’s betting on himself here. He thinks he’s going to go do some great things and he wants to have that availability to do that.”
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