Filed under: Featured , News , Radio Highlight , UFC , Videos Sure, Francis Ngannou is excited about his upcoming UFC 218 meeting with Alistair Overeem . Just don’t tell him that winning could be the thing to make him the next challenger to Stipe Miocic’s heavyweight belt. “No, enough ‘could be,’” Ngannou told MMAjunkie Radio. “It will be.” Ngannou (10-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) isn’t just excited about meeting Overeem (43-15 MMA, 8-4 UFC). Having been away from the octagon since his 92-second knockout of Andrei Arlovski back in January, with a scrapped UFC 215 appointment in between, Ngannou is ecstatic to be back. That it gets to be against a man who happened to have held DREAM, K-1 and Strikeforce titles – and challenged for a UFC belt? Well, that’s a plus
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Enough with ‘could,’ says Francis Ngannou: UFC 218 win will earn me title shot – MMA Junkie