With just one fight remaining on his contract with the Professional Fighters League, Francis Ngannou recently reignited one of MMA’s most tantalizing what-ifs: a return to the UFC for a long-awaited showdown with Jon Jones potentially on the promotion’s planned White House card in June.
The tease alone was enough to set the MMA world buzzing. But any hope of reconciliation was quickly extinguished when Dana White publicly dismissed the idea, making it clear he has no interest in working with Ngannou again.
That response sparked a different conversation altogether: is Ngannou, the most feared knockout artist of his era, quietly regretting his decision to walk away from the UFC?