Comments Thread For: Ngannou: Everybody is Beatable, I Think I Can Take Tyson Fury Down!

[Willow The Wisp]

If Ngannou is finally out of PEDs, he has a pathetic cardio, zero IQ and poor technique even for MMA, but he will lose some of his power as well. So if Fury doesn't decide to toy with him for a little longer, the fight will be totally one-sided.

Well, shoot. I can't be THAT critical of the king of MMA just because he’s fighting Tyson Fury.
I agree that Ngannou is no top 20 Heavyweight in the money/history level of prizefighting. If he had that amount of Natural Fighting Ability in him, he'd be that already and would've skippedright over the small-pay combat sports.

But....
Francis Ngannou IS a boxer. He began training in boxing from a young age. He's used that as his base and bolted on the Wrestling, Submission grappling and Muay Thai very quickly to earn dominance under MMA rules, where those things are needed.

In MMA, he's a very strong contender for the G.O.A.T., having crushed Luis Henrique, Curtis Blaydes, Bojan Mihajlović, Anthony Hamilton, Andrei Arlovski, Alistair Overeem, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Stipe Miocic and Ciryl Gane; just about a clean sweep of his generation.

He did that with a boxing base, so he can fight a bit.
Enough to warm Tyson Fury not to get cute.
He's no mere football player or barroom brawler off the street.

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Well, shoot. I can't be THAT critical of the king of MMA just because he’s fighting Tyson Fury.
I agree that Ngannou is no top 20 Heavyweight in the money/history level of prizefighting. If he had that amount of Natural Fighting Ability in him, he'd be that already and would've skippedright over the small-pay combat sports.

But....
Francis Ngannou IS a boxer. He began training in boxing from a young age. He's used that as his base and bolted on the Wrestling, Submission grappling and Muay Thai very quickly to earn dominance under MMA rules, where those things are needed.

In MMA, he's a very strong contender for the G.O.A.T., having crushed Luis Henrique, Curtis Blaydes, Bojan Mihajlović, Anthony Hamilton, Andrei Arlovski, Alistair Overeem, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Stipe Miocic and Ciryl Gane; just about a clean sweep of his generation.

He did that with a boxing base, so he can fight a bit.
Enough to warm Tyson Fury not to get cute.
He's no mere football player or barroom brawler off the street.

Ngannou is a GOAT contender only in UFC which, to me, is some WWE with real punches. But anyway, it is true he is a fighter and started with boxing. But saying he is no boxer has its validity because he never competed as such and his first boxing fight is against a man who will probably stay among the greatest (maybe somewhere on the back of the ranking, but still). Otherwise, I am not against this fight. But Fury should've chosen someone else last December or should have faced some boxer earlier this year before Ngannou.