Comments Thread For: Francis Ngannou Blames Anthony Joshua Defeat On Tiredness

[TMLT87]

Tiredness didnt make him pointlessly switch to Southpaw in the opening 2 mins, bite on every feint or be lazy with his lead hand.

[rickJen]

It's probably over-training thinking it's the answer to everything.
Training in the gym has its peak and lows, and if the peak is too far off the day of the fight,
the hmph might not be there anymore. Trainers like McGirt recognizes it and he knows
when over-training results in either harm or preparedness. Of course, it all depends on the individual.

[BustedKnuckles]

Defeat is hard to take. The whole thing about winning, is you get over the line no matter how you're feeling. You get it done.

Exactly.

That's what success is. Competition involves all kinds of circumstances: injury, fatique, diet issues, health issues, etc. Every winner has to overcome things; that is always a part of winning. So it's disingenuous to blame one circumstance or another ultimately. The buck stops with you.

And AJ boxed you like a champ, with bad intentions.

[Boxviewer]

I prefer AJ's reaction after the 2nd Usyk defeat, born out of frustration and disappointment, than all these fighters who make silly excuses after a defeat. Everyone could see that skills gap between him and AJ was thousand miles wide. If Ngannou's agenda is to get another payday after the AJ's destruction job then he's quite delusional IMO.

[Nightfall]

The excuses are getting embarrassing

[The plunger man]

Well at least you had a 3 minute power nap after eating that last right hand …..lol

[deathofaclown]

- The 3am start time was ridiculous.

Yeah it really is

But it applies to both fighters so it cant be too much of an excuse.

but I don't see how having a fight at 3 a.m. in Saudi Arabia benefits anybody. it can't be good for any of the fighters really to be fighting at that time of day, even if they adjust their body clock it's still not that Ideal

It can be ideal for the local people to be watching at 3 in the morning and even thats midnight in the UK where most people would prefer a couple of hours earlier. Even if you factor in USA audiences, that's pretty much early evening, or late afternoon on the west coast where most people are working or probably on their way home. And anyway whatever time you put on a fight in the evening or night in Saudi Arabia is not going to be ideal for USA so you can't really factor that in it, just like the USA fights are at an inconvenient time for Europeans, it's unavoidable

They need to shift those cards a couple of hours forward. Right now the time benefits nobody at all. Just two or three hours earlier is at least better for locals and Europeans.

[vital1983]

- The 3am start time was ridiculous.

Now ya know how us Europeans feel when a USA fight is on.

[ELPacman]

I figure this guy would have to come up with SOME excuse because that's a tough loss to swallow. Forget that it was just a loss, it was a BRUTAL loss that went viral. There's no way he can mentally come back from this without putting some form of idea in his mind of what happened and that it wasn't really him in there. I mean, there is no real easy reset switch after that. His chin just might be cracked for good after that and he can become gun shy. I don't know, but he was legit asleep and had to be brought back with oxygen.

Despite even hearing a lame excuse from Ngannou like that, you have his fans on social media going nuts saying the fight was rigged, lol. They're in serious denial that their MMA demigod whose never been rocked, hurt or dropped got nearly killed in 2 rds by a sport they mostly consider their enemy for some odd f**k reason.

[ELPacman]

Tiredness didnt make him pointlessly switch to Southpaw in the opening 2 mins, bite on every feint or be lazy with his lead hand.

This is just it. I don't for one minute believe he was tired. I think he was even training in Riyad for some time prior to the bout to get acclimated to the timezone/weather, whatever. The point being is this. He just did everything wrong you can imagine and AJ whose an Olympian wasn't going to let this rookie come in and have a chance against him. He used all his tools and even the most basic of throwing feints had Ngannou confused, bemused and bewildered. It was a brutal KO coming in SOME rd, if it hadn't happened in the 2nd.