Comments Thread For: Hearn Warns Wilder To Avoid a Mixed Rules Fight With Ngannou

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Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom has warned Deontay Wilder to stay away from a potential fight with MMA veteran Francis Ngannou. Wilder's head trainer, Malik Scott, has indicated that his man is very interested in facing Ngannou in the ring.
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[VislorTurlough]

Know that loudmouth know it all drunk at the pub? That’s an expert authority on everything? That’s back living with his parents at age 45 after his wife left him for another woman? That’s Eddie Hearn

[Apollo7]

Know that loudmouth know it all drunk at the pub? That’s an expert authority on everything? That’s back living with his parents at age 45 after his wife left him for another woman? That’s Eddie Hearn

He's not wrong though.

[crimsonfalcon07]

I'm just waiting for Willow the Wisp to come in talking about Ray Mercer beating Tim Sylvia, but leave out pertinent details like the fact that Mercer lost his previous MMA match with Kimbo Slice via guillotine, and that the Sylvia fight was under the agreement that they'd only fight standing with no takedowns and ground etc. Examples of boxers winning become a lot harder to come by when you put them in legit MMA fights without restrictions to protect the boxers from their lack of ground game.

[Willow The Wisp]

No interest in seeing Wilder cross over to MMA at his age. Not with only a crash course in stuffing takedowns, checking kicks and avoiding submissions. There's nothing in it for him, he's still one of the top 3 in the world, still likely to snag another title once they re-fragment, and a heavy favorite in a superfight with titleholding counterpart Anthony Joshua, should Eddie Hearn ever get up the nerve to make that one.

Anyway, Boxers in MMA is strickly for never-was level fighters, young starter boxers with years to cross train like Frye, Sylva, Filipovic, Ngannou, Davis, Kope, Miocic, Holm, Ustinov, Warring, Lytle, McGregor & Noons, and long ago has-beens with nothing left but some name value even in their own sport, like Botha, Mercer, Toney, Skelton, Butterbean and Nishijima.

It's way below a fighter of Wilder's ranking and status.

Eddie "The escape artist" Hearn: "Keep Wilder & Fury’s name out yo fin' Mouth!"

(At least until you're ready to make Joshua against a Wilder or Fury level Heavyweight, which Joshua has never been in with before).

[kafkod]

No interest in seeing Wilder cross over to MMA at his age. Not with only a crash course in stuffing takedowns, checking kicks and avoiding submissions. There's nothing in it for him, he's still one of the top 3 in the world, still likely to snag another title once they re-fragment, and a heavy favorite in a superfight with titleholding counterpart Anthony Joshua, should Eddie Hearn ever get up the nerve to make that one.

Anyway, Boxers in MMA is strickly for never-was level fighters, young starter boxers with years to cross train like Frye, Sylva, Filipovic, Ngannou, Davis, Kope, Miocic, Holm, Ustinov, Warring, Lytle, McGregor & Noons, and long ago has-beens with nothing left but some name value even in their own sport, like Botha, Mercer, Toney, Skelton, Butterbean and Nishijima.

It's way below a fighter of Wilder's ranking and status.

Eddie "The escape artist" Hearn: "Keep Wilder & Fury’s name out yo fin' Mouth!"

(At least until you're ready to make Joshua against a Wilder or Fury level Heavyweight, which Joshua has never been in with before).

What are you on about? He's been in with the Heavyweight champion of the world twice.

[Slowhand]

Hearn is right, but I´d still like to see Wilder ragdolled around the cage.

[boxing IQ]

Hearn has no problem talking about Wilder and Fury as long as it's not in regards to fighting AJ.

[HENNY]

Wilder is a 205 pound fighter in MMA. His frame wouldn't allow him to have any success in the sport. He's just not built for it

[HandsofIron]

With kicks? Then it's essentially a kickboxing fight.

They should just do traditional boxing but with added elbows and clinching allowed.