MMA: Francis N’gannou opens a training center in Cameroon
MMA: Francis N’gannou opens a training center in Cameroon
The heavyweight MMA world champion wants to produce many champions at home in Cameroon. He opens a training center.
Francis N’gannou had promised a few years ago to open a center where young Cameroonians will be trained, wishing to practice Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He is making that promise a reality.
Yesterday Friday, the champion announced that he has procured the necessary equipment to open this center. This equipment was purchased in the United States and sent to Cameroon.
“Another successful container day. All of this heading to Cameroon for the new sports hall we are building,” wrote Francis N’gannou in a publication.
Ngannou, 35 today, has always been proud of his origins and each time he returns to Cameroon, he is welcomed as a hero – the last time was to attend the Cameroon-Burkina Faso match in beginning of February (match counting for the third place of the CAN). It must be said that he is the third fighter of African origin to be crowned UFC champion after Nigerians Kamaru Usman and Israel Adesanya, who respectively won the welterweight and middleweight championship titles in 2019.
Born in a mountainous region, Ngannou had a difficult start, victim, like his siblings, of the violence of their father, and struggling to find even what to eat. He was 10 years old when he started working in a sand quarry, 17 when he stopped. He discovers boxing in a small club in Douala, whose imposing stature opened the doors to him. This sport will be an outlet for him.
