Comments Thread For: Although now back in MMA, Francis Ngannou suggests his boxing days are not over

[Willow The Wisp]

Randy and Big Tim would die imo. Randy was too small and was basically old already when he had his first MMA fight, and Tim was just a sloth. I'd throw DC in there (granted he was a little on the old and small side too, but was chunky and heavy unlike Randy and had a fair bit of power), prime K1 Ubereem, maybe even Brock.

Oh, ya. Or Vitor Belfort, Alistair Overeem, Ken Shamrock, Mirko Filipovic, Dan Severn, Bas Rutten, Daniel Cormier, Frank Mir, Andrei Arlovski, Mark Coleman, Igor Vovchanchyn, Brock Lesnar, Curtis Blaydes, Ryan Bader, Travis Browne, Semmy Schilt, etc.
You get it.

[crimsonfalcon07]

I could see Ngannou doing fine against current Wilder, or Arslanbek Makhmudov, who's one of the slowest fighters I've ever seen. I could also see him getting knocked out, but let's not pretend that every pro heavyweight has the same kind of fundamentals and power as AJ. AJ IMO deserves his current spot as one of the top heavyweights of this era. He's fought most everyone that would sign on the line to fight him, and done credibly, even in losing, against all of them. And personally, I think Ngannou stands a better chance of being a creditable addition to the sport than, say, Jake Paul, or any of the DAZN misfits garbage.

[A.B Counterhooks]

You gotta respect Francis willingness to still give it a shot at boxing after getting flatlined like that in front of the whole world, yeah he gets paid way more too I get it but still...Big man loves the fight game. You do your thang Francis!

[thack]

Good luck to the kid , bit late really in boxing terms but he'd make for a few exciting nights regardless ..

[TheOneAboveAll]

negative!!! if they fight again, fury will schooled francis this time.... imo, fury didnt take the first fight serious kinda like when he fought wilder the first time... but look how he did in the rematch. we are talking about a pro boxer here with a full camp, fury will toy with francis..... francis is just too slow and his stamina is very bad. he got lucky the first time against fury.

People make endless excuses when Fury fails to perform well. "He wasn't ready." He didn't care enough." And so on. The problem is that Fury's had a number of subpar performances against a list of fighters. The man is simply not as good as advertised, and nothing close to an ATG. Francis mugs him again if they fight, but Fury will retire after this next beating by Usyk. If Fury rematches Ngannou it will be two years from now and north of 25 stone.

[Hands of Stone]

You gotta respect Francis willingness to still give it a shot at boxing after getting flatlined like that in front of the whole world, yeah he gets paid way more too I get it but still...Big man loves the fight game. You do your thang Francis!

You mean he loves the payday. If by chance, he wants to give Boxing another shot, I have no issues if he gets to the back of the line and fight a top 20 heavyweight but to try to skip to the front of the line again for another massive payday after been knocked out cold, no sir.

[chicken-]

People make endless excuses when Fury fails to perform well. "He wasn't ready." He didn't care enough." And so on. The problem is that Fury's had a number of subpar performances against a list of fighters. The man is simply not as good as advertised, and nothing close to an ATG. Francis mugs him again if they fight, but Fury will retire after this next beating by Usyk. If Fury rematches Ngannou it will be two years from now and north of 25 stone.

My money is on Fury for the rematch, fight looked like a mismatch until he got caught.

[zod66]

Hope they don't make Francis fight in 4am again and not eating 9 hours before fight like they done vs AJ

[IceTrayDaGang]

People make endless excuses when Fury fails to perform well. "He wasn't ready." He didn't care enough." And so on. The problem is that Fury's had a number of subpar performances against a list of fighters. The man is simply not as good as advertised, and nothing close to an ATG. Francis mugs him again if they fight, but Fury will retire after this next beating by Usyk. If Fury rematches Ngannou it will be two years from now and north of 25 stone.

you can believe what you want... if you really thought that fury took the fight serious against francis then that's on you... real boxing fans could see that fury wasnt serious about francis.

[Nash out]

He's definitely the greatest boxer that has ever lived. Nash out - His Excellency