Eric Nicksick reveals conversation with Francis Ngannou following tongue-in-cheek UFC return comments

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Eric Nicksick continues to learn the rule that in the MMA community, you can say something, and it spirals into something completely different, and that’s what happened with his recent comments about Francis Ngannou.

Speaking with Home of Fight, in an interview conducted by one of Nicksick’s Xtreme Couture teammates of nearly two decades, Ngannou’s head coach said his fighter would be “100 percent” open to a UFC return down the line from a business sense...