Renan Ferreira has actually provided a description for a remark he made throughout Thursday's press occasion with upcoming challenger Francis Ngannou.
The 6ft 8in giant will fight Ngannou on the latter's go back to MMA on October 19 in Saudi Arabia. In advance of the battle ‘Problema' drew flak online for what numerous saw as insensitive remarks towards Ngannou, whose 15-month-old boy Kobe unfortunately passed away previously this year.
In remarks provided to the media in Portuguese and equated by an interpreter, Ferreira stated that he was going to “be the most significant issue” that Ngannou has actually come across in his “hard year”– remarks that many individuals online deemed a referral to the destructive loss of Ngannou's boy.
Quickly after Ferreira provided a message to social media in which he apologised for his remarks being misunderstood and stated that he was referring to Ngannou's losses to Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou in the boxing ring and not to terrible occasions in his individual life.
“Hey, everybody. Today we had journalism conference and I saw a couple of things came out in journalism that were totally misshaped when discussing Francis, stating that I was the most significant issue for him this year, however I was describing the battle,” he stated in Portuguese, with translation through MMA Junkie.
I simply wish to make something clear. @francisngannou is an excellent guy & & i regard him. When i stated that i was going to be his most significant
this year i was speaking about Anthony Joshua & & Tyson Fury, not about his household. I am a dad myself
— RenanProblemaMMA (@MmaProblema) August 23, 2024
“What I stated has no connection to his individual life, of whatever he simply went through with kid. I'm a dad, I have kids too, and I will never ever touch such a fragile topic. I would not go that low. My acknowledgements to Francis. I feel for his loss. I'm a dad, I have kids too, I would never ever state something like that.
“Everything I stated had to do with Francis Ngannou's year, you get me. He's coming off 2 losses in boxing, 2 year layoff (in MMA), at no point did I wish to discuss his individual life and whatever that went down with his kid. That wasn't my intent. That's not me, it's not in my character. I ‘d never ever go that low.
“People are talking and misshaping whatever into an insane variation of what occurred today. I simply wished to clarify what occurred today, that it has absolutely nothing to do with what they're stating. It's not me doing something that low. I simply wished to make that clear.”
