Will Harris's Crazy Francis Ngannou Stories

The scariest moment I ever had, I wouldn't say scariest, but the most intimidating moment I ever had, I was filming Francis eating a banana and he didn't like it. You didn't like you filming him? I was in the elevator with him and Uzman. We was in Pittsburgh when we did USC Pittsburgh, when Rocco fought David Branch back then. And Francis came to support Kamaro. So they go in to do jujitsu in a little workout room and Francis was like talking to Uzman, opening in a banana. And I'm like, he put the banana in his mouth and he started eating it and I'm filming and he looked, hey, hey, he like slapped the camera away. That was my boy though, Francis was my boy. But that was before I really knew him. Why are you filming him eating? Maybe just him, you know, men with bananas in their mouth, they might not like the banana in the tailpipe. That was funny. Francis is intimidating, man. Oh, he's terrifying. When he clipped Cain Velasquez, there it is, there's that uppercut. It's like an uppercut left hook, like a shovel hook. Look at this. Boom. Right before that, his swagger, how he was, he had the confidence bouncing his shoulders like he was ready to. He believed he was the greatest in the world. And that's Stipe. And then Stipe fight changed his fucking trajectory, man. It really did. Changed his life, huh? That's a really interesting fight because Stipe was a real champion. You know what's crazy? I was in a room next to Francis in Boston and he didn't go, he never went to sleep. And I had my door open, like, so my room was right next to Francis and I had my door open because I was like, if fighters come by, I'm gonna just catch them with a camera. Did you just cap your door open? I kept, in the middle of the night, editing because that's, you know, during fight week, you know how in bed it releases day series. I'm filming all of these fighters and then I'm going back up to my room and I'm editing. But I'm already editing in my head. That's how I'm able to get stuff out. What do you edit? What program are you editing with? Premiere now. Premiere. And you're just doing it, just slapping it up as quick as you can. But see, my method when I film is I'm already knowing what I'm gonna use. Okay, so you're making your cuts almost because you're filming. I know the opening shot. I know everything. Are you writing all this stuff down? No, keep it in my head. Just keep it. And people be like, how can you edit and release it that fast? It's like, it's already done before I go to my room. I just have to go up there and put it together. Music, everything. I'm able to just, I don't know how I'm able to do it. It's just something natural I've been doing for years. Well, obviously you have a deep passion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a deep passion. And I've developed a skill set to, it's easy, you know, they always say, well, you put in 10,000 hours. And some of you become an expert. I feel like I put in my 10,000 hours doing all types of different types of shoots to survive. And now this is my arena. This is my big stage. But I remember that week, Frances never went to sleep. I'd be like, bro, go to sleep. What are you doing with your door open? Trying to catch you. And then you come in, sit on a bed and look at what I was editing because obviously I was filming him as well. And it was just funny, like just those type of memories. That's like what time was it that he wouldn't he never went to sleep all night? Well, you know, you get there Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday. So it may be Wednesday and you still up at three in the morning because you fight late. No, because think about it. Think about it. The last fight is what time? Ten o'clock. Yeah. Nine o'clock. Well, L.A. time. Boston time is midnight. Yeah, midnight. Yeah. So he up because he can't go to sleep early because he got a fight. And that's one thing I discovered about the fight game like, Dan, that does make sense. You fighting at 11 p.m. Yeah, you want to keep yourself on that stage. So he just walking around the hallways, big ass Frances in Boston. It's crazy. It's like looking back on that stuff and it's like, man, I've captured a lot of stuff already.