Francis Ngannou

Kobe, what's his name?

I named him after Kobe Bryant because, uh,

I had a great memory of Kobe Bryant.

The day that the USA was launching, was announcing the partnership with Buddy Amor was in New York.

I just arrived in the US at the time.

My English was so bad.

I'm in New York.

We have to meet in this room, this event, to make the announcement.

And I'm there a little early.

Then Kobe came a little early too.

meet me in the waiting room just could be a night there for like 30 minutes i don't my english is very bad i'm embarrassed i don't want to speak and then keep talking asking questions talk about my story ask me where i came from and how do i get i know like wow this is impressive i'm like this is kobe right

I don't want to bother him, but he's questioning me.

Really excited about it.

Get me to talk.

Then I feel bad.

I'm like, oh no, your English is really good.

I understand what you're saying.

And then how about this, that?

Like for 30 minutes.

Until then, Dana White was the next guy that walked in the room.