Who could beat Ngannou- Call it Before the Fight Friday.

[Willow The Wisp]

Francis Ngannou is a pretty good heavyweight Boxer.

We know this.

But just JUST HOW good?
That, we really Don't know.

I'm guessing here, but apparently, viewing himself as a boxer throughout his professional fight career against grapplers and kickers and always intending to move up to clean boxing; his skills in the ring are significant. But how significant?


My vote: Ngannou maybe beats those NOT Bolded.
Those in bold I favor over him.

Am I too harsh and doubting him too much?
Or too generous, hypnotized by his competitive fight against Fury?

What is Your call?


World Champion - Tyson Fury, England (When in shape)
1. Oleksandr Usyk, Ukraine
2. Zhilei Zhang, China
3. Anthony Joshua, England
4. Joseph Parker, New Zealand
5. Agit Kabayel, Germany
6. Daniel Dubois, England
7. Deontay Wilder, USA
8. Joe Joyce, England
9. Filip Hrgovic, Croatia
10. Luis Ortiz, Cuba
11. Frank Sanchez, Cuba
12. Jared Anderson, USA
13. Martin Bakole, Congo
14. Otto Wallin, Sweden
15. Efe Ajagba, Nigeria
16. Dillian Whyte, England
17. Francis Ngannou, Cameroon
18. Arslanbek Makhmudov, Russia
19. Murat Gassiev, Russia
20. Derek Chisora, England
21. Fabio Wardley, England
22. Lenier Pero, Cuba
23. Michael Hunter, USA
24. Ryad Merhy, Belgium
25. Kevin Lerena, South Africa

[Superbee]

I think we'll see his limits this weekend against a more technical Fighter... Joshua won't fall for Ngannou tactics and faints like Jello-Belly did ... Wide cards or late KO in my book...

[crimsonfalcon07]

I think #17 on your list is the most likely to beat him.

[Smash]

AJ should have enough boxing skills to beat him i would say but hes more dangerous than i thought he would be

i think he will have to attack AJ to be in with a shout of winning the fight, AJ will be cautious of his hard shot

[Eff Pandas]

Ngannou is such an unusual outlier in a division where power beats skill more often than in any other division idk that I can answer this with any degree of reasonable expectation. I honestly believe he might be the best 0 & now 1 bout (pro + am exp) boxer we've ever seen.

The only thing I feel with any confidence is that if Ngannou had come over to boxing a decade earlier & therefore time had been on his side more the last decade of HW history would look drastically different.

[Willow The Wisp]

Ngannou is such an unusual outlier in a division where power beats skill more often than in any other division idk that I can answer this with any degree of reasonable expectation. I honestly believe he might be the best 0 & now 1 bout (pro + am exp) boxer we've ever seen.

The only thing I feel with any confidence is that if Ngannou had come over to boxing a decade earlier & therefore time had been on his side more the last decade of HW history would look drastically different.

That's high praise. I agree. Still, in swallowing MMA whole he's still managed to make a name for himself.
win, lose or draw, I want to see him in the ring again.

Remember too that in today's heavyweights, 40 is the new 30!