Daniel Cormier TV - Jon Jones Calls Out Francis Ngannou after joining PFL and Daniel Cormier & Ben Askren Debate the Move!

Published May 19, 2023, 2:30 AM

Ben Askren has a PROBLEM with Jon Jones, so Funky calls out the champ after Jones' remarks on Ngannou. Daniel Cormier and Funky Ben give their take on Francis Ngannou signing with the PFL and what that means for his future in the UFC. Plus, DC gives his take on the breaking news that Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier are fighting for the BMF belt. And don't miss who Ben and Cormier rank the best fights in the UFC 291 card that was announced Tuesday. #Volume #Herd

What Up?

What up? What's up?

Guys?

Is DC with my boy Ben for another episode of Funky in the Champ. Ben, you look kind of wet, sweaty. You fresh off the heels, Doug. You fresh off the heels of getting beat last night by Izzy Style. How in the world do you show up without Sinclair or mulvaney. You don't go to the gunfight caring the knife brow? How do you show up without your best guys?

That wasn't the point of the duel is to get kids good equal matchups. So we didn't even do weight classes, and we just put twenty two matches together and we wrestled.

Now you got beat. You got beat by Izzy Izzy. Good job, my guy. You're still sweating from last night. You've been running and working out ever since Iszy put it on.

I was working outside and you're like, hey, we gotta do a podcast in thirty minutes. I'm like, okay, I guess I gotta stop working and I gotta go in a shower. What were you doing? I was clean enough, old chain link fence, I was planting some grass. I was I got all kinds of stuff. I got you all? You do all that? Yes, here you go, Ben, change all that.

Now I understand why Amy was able to let you get away with the ship you pulled before and stay with you because I thought you was out on your ass after your disrespectful shit, the disrepection you be pulling. I'm sur price she stay with you. But if you are.

Working like that, I get I get it, Ben.

So generally we do these whenever you and I will be texting about something and then the subject comes up and you feel strongly about it. Yesterday, Franks and Ghana was the news at the contract with PFL, he is free of the UFC. UFC doubles back with what might be one of the greatest paper cards of the year. On the same day, Dana White announces the return of the BMF title between two dudes that are the legitimately as BMF as they come and Justin Gatgee and Dustin Pourier. But before we get to the BMF title and UFC two ninety one, you are a little bit peeved with your boy John Jones, your great friend John Jones, because John Jones was away for a while, Yeah, didn't fight for three years, comes back, becomes the champion, but then has something to say about Francis and Ghanu. When Francis leaves the UFC and says to Francis, how you gonna.

Talk from across the street.

You can't call yourself the baddest man on the planet anymore?

What change? Ben?

What change?

Why is John allowed not to talk about Francis and Francis got to hold his.

Tongue to me? To me, it was simple thought? And why I like thought, Wow, this is really weird and almost hypocritical. Is John chose to be inactive for three years? He chose not to fight? What? I don't care. I don't care what John does right.

Put way on, he was putting weight on, he was putting weight on Ben whatever.

He chose not to fight three years, three years, choose not to fight Francis is in the UFC pretty much the entirety of that three years. And we've seen other people go up weight classes right style Bender didn't lost to Yan and went back to five. So we've seen other people do it. And so he had plenty of opportunity to fight Francis and ganhom So now Francis and ghan who wants to say I'm beast man at the planet. I think he should be able to now can John argue he is also sure? But John can't say you can't do it because John didn't fight it for three years.

Wait, Ben, here's the thing, though.

What how do you determine who's the baddest man on the planet.

You would see possible.

What you would think is the baddest man on the planet is the heavyweight champion in the biggest organization.

Yeah, right, that's John Jones.

Yeah.

So I mean, like I said, John has a good argument with it. But uh, Francis went out winning six in a row. So he beat Curtis Blades, Caane Jds, Rosen, Strike Miochich and gone his last six fights in the UFC, of which John was able to be fighting during that time. He chose not to be chose not to be active. That's his choice. I don't care, right, but John could have at any point, I think his last fight was February of twenty twenty, at any point during the next two and a half to three years, he could have said, Francis, I want a piece of you. You're in the UFC. I'm in the UFC. Let's do it right now. And he chose not to. So now Francis leaves as a champion winning six in a row. I think he can claim that title.

Does he still? But does does Francis leaving as the heavyweight champion? Does it diminish John's accomplishments being that John's the champ now? But he beat the guy that Francis beat. But he did do it Ben much faster and much more impressively.

Yeah, so I think was it. I think John can say I'm I'm the guy. Also, I don't see a problem with that, But he can't say, hey, dummy, you're not You're clearly not the guy. That's what he can't say. He can I'm the unproven guy. It's unproven until it's proven. John might be right. John might be the bestest dude, for sure, he could beat Francis, but who knows. Francis could maybe win two And Francis was active six fights in a row. So from that time when John had his last fight, I think Francis had four four fights maybe something like that. So it's like they could have fought at any point in time. John chose to be inactive and then so we don't get to see it.

Now, who do you think would have won that fight? Man?

If you had to pick Francis versus John Jones, Who do you think was gonna win that fight? Especially knowing that we saw Francis wrestling Zero Gone. He aro, what about when Francis started wrestling Zero Gon? How how crazy was that when he started? Were you as surprised as me? Because how was on the broadcast and I go, oh my god, he knows how to wrestle now, because it was always like, you wrestle him like Stepe did. But once he started taking Gone down, I was like, oh my god, this guy can actually wrestle.

Now he's a real problem.

But then when you look at John Jones, you have a guy that's so well rounded that he could essentially do what Francis did to Cyo. Obviously he did it better and whatever he did to all the other guys. You would favor Jones against all those guys too, wouldn't you. So when you look at those two and they're fighting for the baddest man on the planet, who would you have given the advantage you? Because now it's all hypothetical, and that was always the issue with boxing.

It's like can this guy be this guy? Can this guy be this guy?

And they're all living in the same world, but they're separated from each other.

So it never happens.

Yeah, we had it.

We almost were there with a legit super fight if it happened. Though, since we're back in the world of make believe, who would you have chosen?

I would choose John. I think John likely is the best guy. But so my point of contention is John was inactive while Francis was in the UFC and the champion, and John could have said, let's fight because I want to prove I am, without the shadow of doubt, the badest dude. And it didn't happen. So now Francis gets to leave. They never fought, and if he wants to say it for a little while, he can say it. I'm not mad at him.

It has to be unproven, right, like somebody's gotta beat Francis or something. But like, I mean, is there anyone out in the world to beat Francis and Ghanu in mixed martial arts? I mean, I know that there are landmines in some of these organizations, right, Like you've competed in a few of.

Them, Belatre and one.

There are very tough guys, But do you foresee anyone really being able to challenge in Ghanu and for as big as the contract is, Francis is gonna be on.

Pay per view.

Do you think he moves the needle enough to make it to where it's like, wow, France has made the greatest deal ever.

Yeah, I mean until we actually see the contract, and I'm not sure I believe every single thing, like you know they're is that one stipulation that his opponent gets paid two million dollars Like, I don't know if I believe it till I check turn. I'm not so sure on that one.

For everybody wants to fight him too, been big Ben Rothwell's like, yo, we got a year to build this thing.

Francis like, can we fight each other?

Like two million?

Those guys don't make that type of money ever, making twenty thirty.

I mean probably something like that. In the PFL. PFL does seem to be making a lot of moves. I heard rumors. I don't know about you, Danielle. People get mad at me for saying rumors. Sometimes, guys, this is a rumor. I cannot substantiate this. I heard PFLs by a Bell tour. That's what I heard. What that what I heard?

No, No, no, Ben, Ben, Ben, that's.

A rumor that is not a fact. I cannot stantiate that. Wait wait so bellatour Yeah.

Is on the market, is what you're telling me?

Ben?

Ask telling me Ben president. Because you're actually pretty good at rumors, I will say this. You might be less of a guy that spreads rumors more of an insider.

Gotta tell you something.

Yeah, I heard something very similar.

Oh heard some very similar too.

So it's not like this is not Maybe it's not as sure, but hell, hey, what if the UFC bias Milator like they did Strike Force.

That's because if with the Roman possibilities.

If this becomes real, like if this becomes public knowledge, then what if the ufccrets involved in purchasing the assets that were I don't know, man, that's crazy. But Ben, you said it. I didn't. I will say that I have heard it too. I just wasn't gonna be the.

One that went out on the limb and said it publicly.

But you are the insider. I go to you for the news, even though you would be as disconnected as anyone.

Guys.

What's the one? So, uh, Francis, I don't think I'm gonna beat him outide DFC right now, I don't think, but he is going to get older. He is going to age at some point.

But Jones is older two. It's not like Jones's. I mean, Jones's gotta be thirty five thirty six years old at this point, right, No, yeah, I mean because I when we fought, I was in my mid thirties. He was like twenty six, so he's like seven years younger than me. Jones got to be almost thirty six, thirty seven years old, So he's gonna get older and he's going to age. And if you watch him in the last fight, he was a little bit slower, right, Like I said that, and everybody was mad at me, like you're jealous. But the left hand he threw against Cyril Gon was not with the speed that I would recognize the strikes for coming in my direction. Because even though he wasn't super fast when we were fighting, he was fast enough to get to me because I was fast in my defenses.

And I'm looking out John Jones' thirty five years old man.

John jan was nine years young same day. I'm July eighteen, he's July nineteen. Really, well, you know, Max's John Jones for third place at the High School Nationals.

Who Max did?

Yeah?

John Jones, Hey, John Jones was actually a decent wrestler, Like he wasn't like a terrible wrestler like we make him out to be.

Guys, he was good. He was going to Iowa State before he decided to fight.

Well, he was going to Iowa State after winning the Junior College Nationals.

Yes, and then he decided to fight.

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George Mosbal they went to his housel what but seriously, how they gonna take George's Hell, they did give us a stuff back, they didn't take it.

He retired, so it comes back up for grab. How excited are you for this particular matchup? We've seen it before, but these guys today are so much better. Gaigee and Pourier are two of the best lightweights in the world. Toighting guys fighting for that championship.

Yeah, it's gonna be exciting fight. Uh man. Gaechie has gotten more and more disciplined and less reckless as he's gotten older, and I think that could play a part in this fight, but either way, it's gonna be knocked down. Dragon. We have a lot of fun.

Let me give you the rest of the fight card.

You get Yanbohovich welcoming Alex Pejeda to the light heavyweight division. I thought that Alecx's gonna fight Izzy again because I thought it was possible, But now it seems as though he's getting a fight that actually does work for him because Yoan Beohovich is willing to stand with you. He did it with Izzy for three and a half rounds. Then you get Paulo Costa coming back to fight against Alascaroff. Dude, This dude, Alascaroff just made his UFC debut off the Contender Series.

He looks so good that he's getting thrown right into the fire.

This kid is gonna go from unranked to in the top seven if he can beat go Ahead.

Who doesn't Dana like here, because David at like someone to make this fight because this kid's only had one UFC fight one that's it uh against Phil Hawes.

He's good man, he's good man.

So either either Dana feed him to the wolves in Coasta or Dana's trying to feed Costa to the wolves in. This guy one of the two.

You know, Costa is a guy that's a bit eccentric. Remember he was he drunk. He drank a whole bunch of wine before he fought. Israel had assigned you the night before, right, So he's a little bit eccentric. So but I think this is more about the kid just being that good, because even if you talk to Hamsa Homsa was like, this is the toughest.

Fight I've ever had.

Toms knocked him out.

Yeah, but did dude, it was.

He fought him very difficult, very tough, very early in both of their careers. And then you got the return of Tony Ferguson. He's taking on Bobby Green, another fun fight. And then you got Michael Kiossa taken on Kevin Holland this is a monster of a pay per view card and it's headlined by a fight between two and the most exciting guys in the world. And if I know Justin Gategche and I know Dustin Pourier, it is going to be nuts. The last time we were in Salt Lake City, Ben tomorrow Usman lost his championship. This arena was on fire from the moment they opened the doors. It wasn't main card. People start to flood in. It was doors open full the fans in Salt Lake. Tremendous, Bro, and I cannot wait to watch that event UFC two ninety one, which is a monster ranked the fights.

Don't do gatechee in him. What's the fight that you're most excited about on that card?

Yeah, I'm gonna one that you forgot. One that's gonna be good, which is Thompson Pereira. That's gonna be a lot of fun. Yes, yes, but I guess I'm excited to see if Alex Pereira can beat up Yon bohoitz yan Man. I feel like, I really feel like after jan what he did is he he's just gonna take him down, Like why wouldn't you try to take him?

Why not?

Why not?

Why not?

Because he's too dangerous. But hey, it's too dangerous, he's too dangerous to try to stand with.

It's gonna be a night. It's gonna be a night. He been another great another great episode. Bro.

I love you no one that George Bonds. We do all can't stand you because you say shit like that.

Just solve the crime. We sell the crime. Someone is trying to steal us be MFL.

You guys are gonna be lifetime enemies because of the ship you say the moment you get a microphone in your face. Guys, thank you again for joining us. I'm Daniel Cormier. That's my guy. Funk you've been asking. Until next time, tell your friend to tell your friend that DC's got a YouTube channel. He's doing stuff like this with his friends, all right, Peace,