Jake Paul slams Dana White over Francis Ngannou title snub: \u201cIt\u2019s pure disrespect\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul slammed UFC President Dana White for threatening to sue Francis Ngannou\u2019s team before his title fight and not handing him the belt when he won, claiming it was \u201cpure disrespect.\u201d Francis Ngannou pulled off an impressive feat at UFC 270. Not only did he successfully defend his heavyweight title against Cyril Gane with some unexpected wrestling skills, but he also did it with a torn MCL and a damaged ACL. However, a big talking point of the night was that the UFC reportedly threatened to sue his team for talking with Jake Paul\u2019s agent. Dana White also didn\u2019t put the belt around his waist when he won or turn up to the post-fight press conference. Jake Paul, who has been at odds with White for more than a year, shared his thoughts on the situation. He described it as \u201cpure disrespect\u201d to Ngannou and the sport and vowed to keep exposing the company\u2019s antics. Paul roasted White for threatening to sue Ngannou\u2019s team after talking to his agent. \u201cDana is too busy sending out lawsuit threats to his heavyweight champions minutes before they enter the cage to fight another man,\u201d he said. He also revealed that his agent received the same legal threat. \u201cHe actually sent my partner the same thing at 9 pm that night when Dana\u2019s supposedly being president at his big PPV event for a public company.\u201d Then, Paul took a swipe at the UFC President for not putting the belt around Ngannou\u2019s waist like he usually would after a title fight, claiming it was a disrespectful act. He also used an analogy to illustrate his point. \u201cImagine if Adam Silver sent a lawsuit to Lebron James minutes before he took the floor for the NBA Finals, then refused to present him with the NBA championship trophy after he won. It\u2019s pure disrespect to the athlete and the sport.\u201d White played down the incident during a Q&A on January 26, saying: \u201cI wasn\u2019t out there for the main event. I actually walked out of the arena right after the co-main event because there was stuff going on backstage that I was dealing with. He also claimed that anybody who thinks he was intentionally being disrespectful towards Ngannou is an \u201cidiot,\u201d explaining that he spoke to him and shook his hand multiple times in the lead-up to the event. However, Paul isn\u2019t convinced. Instead, he promised to ramp up his efforts to tackle the company. \u201cThe UFC can and should do better given the control it has exerted over MMA fighters. I will be working to expose his constant exploitative practices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul slams Dana White over Francis Ngannou title snub: \u201cIt\u2019s pure disrespect\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Wikimedia CommonsJake Paul slammed UFC President Dana White for threatening to sue Francis Ngannou\u2019s team before his title fight and not handing him the belt when he won, claiming it was \u201cpure disrespect.\u201d Francis Ngannou pulled off an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}