At yesterday's UFC 270 match, heavyweight defending champion Francis Ngannou played five rounds with interim champion Ciryl Gane.
In the end, Nagano successfully defended his title with a victory on points. However, there was an embarrassing scene at the scene, UFC President Bai Dana did not award him a gold belt, and even did not attend the post-game press conference, which further strengthened the relationship between the two.
In March last year, Nagano KO Miocci, but due to salary, contract and other issues, began to express dissatisfaction with UFC Chairman Bai Dana.
In particular, the UFC later established a temporary heavyweight championship, which Nagaano believed was deliberately reducing the value of the heavyweight championship title, and the complaints against the UFC have not stopped since then.
He has repeatedly said that he "has never received the respect and treatment he deserves" and even wants to leave the UFC to fight boxing. Later, Bai Dana directly angrily scolded Nagano: "You can leave at any time!" In this UFC 270, Nagano successfully defended the championship gold belt and proved that he was the strongest man on the surface.
Although he was not as strong as before, Nagano also said that he injured his knee three weeks ago and the medial collateral ligament of the knee was completely torn, so he also played with knee pads. After the race, according to the custom, Bai Dana personally awarded the gold belt to the winning champion.
When Dwiesen Figueretto won, Bai Dana personally entered the octagon to award him the gold belt, but when it was Nagano's turn, it was the UFC pairer Mick Maynard who awarded the golden belt to Nagano instead of him, which made the relationship between the two seem to have become inseparable.
But before the UFC 270 match, Bai Dana downplayed his tension with Nagano, saying:
"Nagano and I met by chance at dinner one day a few weeks ago and we had a great chat. We'll see how the game goes, we'll come up with a solution to the problem, I'm not going to blame him, it's fun, we need to meet and talk and see how things go. ”