Comments Thread For: Hatton on Ngannou: There's Every Chance That He Could Knock Anthony Joshua Out

[Motofan]

I’m not even slightly a Joshua fan but for the sake of the sport I’m hoping he puts on a dominant performance. Joshua has been active, looked sharp, and has solid tape to study from the Fury fight.

[Atypicalbrit]

I genuinely don't think AJ will risk trying to KO Francis , I see a boring ud ruiz2 type fight

I see similar but I hope that Joshua will step in with authorative punches at the right times, it'll be another embarrassment for boxing if Ngannou lasts the distance vs AJ, and if he WINS, God forbid.

[Atypicalbrit]

Joshua has been stopped once in his career, as a result of a punch behind the ear he never recovered from. The nonsense about his chin is just that. Nonsense.

Nah man AJ doesn't have the best of chins.

He was getting buzzed too easily by Usyk, Usyk isn't a big puncher and a guy with that much size on him shouldnt be getting shaken up that easy by him, Usyk rocked AJ with leads EARLY.

I'm not saying his chin is completley glass but he needs to be defensively responsible at ALL times because he can't trade on his chin.

[TMLT87]

I see similar but I hope that Joshua will step in with authorative punches at the right times, it'll be another embarrassment for boxing if Ngannou lasts the distance vs AJ, and if he WINS, God forbid.

I think the embarrasment comes from boxing playing host to this **** in the first place. AJ and Fury still havent fought each other being the two top British HWs and two of the top HWs in the world since the mid 2010s, and yet they're both boxing the same guy from a different sport within a few months of each other. And in general all this allowing Youtubers, MMA fighters etc etc to come in like this and straight away have big money high profile fights is just sad. Can you imagine Lennox Lewis boxing ****ing Tank Abbott or something in the 90s and that being one of the biggest fights of the year?

[hugh grant]

Josh will ko francis

[N/A]

I wouldn't say "every chance", technically he isn't on his level, and has slightly worse cardio, but compensates for the reach and is also stronger with a tougher head, as much as I can tell, plus punches harder. AJ is panicking when hurt in the head and recovers slowly. So higher than expected chance maybe.

[PRINCEKOOL]

I see similar but I hope that Joshua will step in with authorative punches at the right times, it'll be another embarrassment for boxing if Ngannou lasts the distance vs AJ, and if he WINS, God forbid.

IF Ngannou survived the full distance, but sustained the worst beat down of his entire combat career 'I don't think that will be a bad performance for Joshua'.

I don't think people understand, the jeopardy in this fight for Francis Ngannou.

Ngannou may well suffer the worst beat down of his professional combat career 'Even if Joshua decides to out box him'.

This is due to Joshua, having considerably more punching power than Tyson Fury 'Being out boxed by Joshua, is a different type of fight compared to lasting the distance vs Fury'.

Note: I don't think Joshua should rush into this fight, and desperately try and search for a knock-out 'Joshua should firstly, attempt to impose his technical and skill dominance over Ngannou. If Joshua can achieve this, he will began to out box Ngannou round after round.

Once Anthony Joshua has established this kind of rhythm, he typically does not make the same frequency of technical mistakes and unforced errors like Tyson Fury 'People seem to pass over, that Anthony Joshua is a Olympic Champion. And skill for skill, he has been the most thoroughly tested boxer in the Heavyweight Division since Wladimir Kiltschko' Joshua is a more technically correct, and fundamentally sound fighter compared to Tyson Fury.

I believe Joshua should just focus on out boxing Ngannou, but with a aggressive intent 'In this sort of fight? Ether Ngannou will be beaten up badly over 12 rounds, or his corner may well pull him out of the fight. If the knock-out comes during this action, then it will come' etc.