Ngannou said he thinks he will be a free agent in a year, and admitted he may have fought his last fight in the Octagon, with some serious knee ligament injuries sustained in his training camp likely to require surgery. A lengthy recovery could ice him for the whole remaining year of his champion’s clause in his contract
I have a grade 3 MCL [tear], a damaged ACL, a damaged MPFL, 25 days ago,” he said, but added that he never considered withdrawing from the fight: “If I needed to leave that leg in the Octagon to get a win, I would have done it.”