Comments Thread For: Team Deontay Wilder Reveal Talks Already Ongoing For Francis Ngannou Clash

[KillaCamNZ]

Looks like we've got an Inoki v Ali ripoff every weekend now

[GrandpaBernard]

That counter hook Francis knocked Fury down with was beautiful

[Boricua181]

A fight between Wilder and Ngannou, would be a "Clash of the Titans" type of an encounter in the ring.
Anyone of these two fighters can win this fight, if Wilder is the quicker on the draw then he wins, but if Ngannou lands a couple of his bombs then he'll get the win.

[Bullrider]

I'd like to see the fight.

But how do we know it would be approved by the Saudi prince?

Any reason why Wilder and Joshua were not invited in the Ngannou/Fury fight? Their absence was very visible in that gala event.

[petero]

Who wouldn't want to see this one

[ShoulderRoll]

God its all so embarrassing. This sport has completely flushed its credibility down the ****ter at this point.

Wilder vs Ngannou would be huge now and great fun to watch while it lasts.

Another big heavyweight event for boxing.

[ShoulderRoll]

Who wouldn't want to see this one

Pretty much everyone will want to see this fight.

It’s guaranteed fireworks.

[ShoulderRoll]

Sure its huge. But its huge at the cost of letting a 37 year old from another sport compete yet again against a supposed top 5 HW, in his second ever boxing match, at (officially) 0-1, and have him potentially do better than he should again. How the **** do rankings even work anymore in this situation?

The big heavyweight events SHOULD have been AJ/Wilder, Fury/Usyk, AJ/Fury, supplemented with those guys competing 2-3 times a year and consistently going against the likes of Zhang, Makhmudov, Bakole, Joyce, Sanchez, Hrgovic etc etc, so that there was a year round steady stream of interest. If that was the case all this ****** **** wouldnt even be necessary.

Demetrious Johnson is even advising Ngannou not to go back to MMA. What for? He has bigger fights and bigger paydays in boxing now.

Even the PFL wants to see him vs Wilder.

[TMLT87]

Demetrious Johnson is even advising Ngannou not to go back to MMA. What for? He has bigger fights and bigger paydays in boxing now.

Even the PFL wants to see him vs Wilder.

Of course he should stay in boxing if he being randomly offered 8 figure paydays to fight Fury, AJ, Wilder level opponents in his first few boxing matches lol. Its a no brainer.

Personally I dont see this as good for boxing though. I'm not even talking about this in a boxing vs MMA way. The shark has been well and truly jumped in the last few years with these gimmick fights. Imagine even a decade ago nobody would have conceived this **** happening, and certainly not that the combat sport playing host to most of it would be boxing ie the oldest, most established and most "respectable sport" - like. It was MMA that was supposed to be the circus WWE thing.

So yeah, the Paul brothers, old MMA fighters etc etc, its making for a few fights a year that generate some degree of mainstream attention, in that moment, in a bubble, and then what? is it really worth it in the long term? imagine when people look back on this era of boxing decades from now, is it gonna look good?

Oh yeah and as for the PFL, they're going to kiss Ngannous ass and let him do whatever, hes by far their biggest signing and the only thing that can really put them on the map in any meaningful way, so they want to keep him sweet in the (probably vain) hope that he will ever actually fight for them.

[topo5358]

Francis did well against Fury, but the old axiom comes to mind; Styles make fights...and Fury is definitely NOT Wilder. Fury is pretty much a tap-tap fighter while Wilder is a KABOOM fighter. Fury, in the very few clips I saw, was hard-put to keep Ngannou off him. Wilder may not have that problem. I'd love to see this clash of titans but I don't think it's a good idea for Ngannou. Odds are he'll run into something he hasn't seen. Then again, Wilder might. He may be able to bully and push Wilder back,...like Helenius was trying to do. The thing is that when he's walking into Wilder, he's walking down the barrel of a canon. Good luck to both, because I like both. Wilder isn't involved in many decisions, thought.