Gina Carano undercard.“Well, I think there is a lot of, I would say, mismanagement,” he said on the state of heavyweight MMA. “There is a lot of mismanagement that sometimes gets stuff screwed up, and then that’s where we are today. You see, even now, there’s a lot of heavyweights out there like Tom Aspinall.

He’s having troubles with this. I think there’s a mismanagement. You see all these situations that don’t come and entertain.”“When I say mismanagement, I wasn’t talking about, like, managers,” he added.

“I was talking mostly about the promotion. So I think there’s something like that out there, which is not right.”As for how Ngannou has decided to manage himself moving forward, he’s now looking to fight more rather than hold out for specific opponents.“Nowadays with all these different companies, it’s hard to focus on a name like ‘I want this name,'” he said. “I done that for a while and it didn’t work good.

We can take a good example of the Jon Jones fight that we’ve been talking about for six years … to the point where it’s kind of annoying to talk about. So whatever fight makes sense, opponent makes sense, just fight. The goal at the end of the day is to fight.”"3 semaines ☝🏿"Nouvelle vidéo de Francis Ngannou à l'entraînement. 😤🧨pic.twitter.com/uDqPDKNQOa— La Sueur (@LaSueur_off) April 25, 2026That’s apparent with his current opponent, Philipe Lins, who isn’t really the most interesting rival for Ngannou but is a warm body on a decent four fight win streak.

And Ngannou made it clear that he’s feeling more comfortable preparing for a return to the cage than he was boxing … not that he wouldn’t accept another boxing bout some day.“I get joy training, [boxing ] training is different but one thing that is certain is that I’m very familiar with MMA,” he said. “I’ve been doing it for a while so it’s different and more comfortable than in boxing. Nothing obliges me to stay in something, I can still take anyone that comes around.

I’m free. If the fight makes sense, yes.”We’ll see how big of a splash Ngannou’s fight against Lins makes on Netflix and across social media as “The Predator” combats the perception that he’s not a big draw. His past post-UFC fights have all been held over in Saudi Arabia at odd times with iffy broadcast partners.

Now he has a chance to compete on the biggest streaming platform on Earth. Who knows what fights will make sense if May 16th goes well?