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

[BoxingUpdates]

FOR most people, the shots Francis Ngannou received square on the jaw from Anthony Joshua's right fist in March would have been enough to see that they never so much as returned to an orthodox boxing stance, much less a boxing ring.
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[IceTrayDaGang]

francis, all due respect to you but you will not succeed in boxing.. your stamina and skills is lacking to compete with the top HW..

[TheOneAboveAll]

francis, all due respect to you but you will not succeed in boxing.. your stamina and skills is lacking to compete with the top HW..

He might beat Tyson Fury in a rematch though. He could probably also KO Wilder. Hardcore fans might not care about those fights but they would still sell.

[IceTrayDaGang]

He might beat Tyson Fury in a rematch though. He could probably also KO Wilder. Hardcore fans might not care about those fights but they would still sell.

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.

[takenotes]

People actually though this guy was gonna KO AJ. lol

[Poopdick]

I hope not that was awesome seeing him flattened like that. I'd like see it again

[Oldskoolg]

And back to the sport which appeals more to the incels than even boxing does

[TMLT87]

PFL got played hard tbh. They sign the dude when his stock is very high, make a bunch of concessions for him and then he goes and tanks his stock by getting ****ing obliterated before he has a single fight for them. He really isnt worth much of anything to them now honestly, I feel like both the boxing and MMA world has largely moved on from him. Wouldnt be surprised at all if that random dude hes fighting (who iirc as per Ngannous contract stipulations needs to be paid $2 million minimum by PFL) actually beats him too. Going up against a 6'8 260lb guy who has a nasty right hand seems like a bad idea after what AJ did to him.

[Willow The Wisp]

I highly respect Francis Ngannou as a fighter, an athlete and as a person. A 17-3-0 MMA rules professional, you can EASILY count on your fingers the number of other MMA professionals ever, who might stand a chance against him on respective best days (Fedor Emelianenko 40-7-0. RUS, Stipe Miocic. 20-4-0. US, Antonio Robrigo Nogueira. 34-10-1. BRZ, Cain Velasquez. 14-3-0. US, Fabricio Werdum. 24-9-1. BRZ, Jon Jones. 27-1-0. US, Junior Dos Santos. 21-10-0. BRZ, Randy Couture. 19-11-0. US, Josh Barnett. 35-8-0. US, and Tim Sylvia. 31-10-0. US).

Therefore, I risk sounding petty perhaps, when I point out that any man who earns his way into the top 15 or 20 heavyweights circle is every bit as "Special".

What's unique about Francis is that instead of his boxing education taking place as an amateur boxer or coming up against an assortment of low level bruisers; it came against hybrid, open rules fighters (and the very best of them), who bolstered their boxing with submission grappling, freestyle wrestling and kickboxing. But make no mistake; Ngannou started and finished his fighting career as a pure boxer, and brought in the other three legs of his chair in the form of crash courses. All along, he's been well suited to cross over to the big money rules.
While he made little money in the UFC, he did earn significant fame there, and that served him well, as it always does, in Boxing.

But...As a boxer, I don't see how Ngannou is "built differently than most".
That assertion is of course, simply a turn of phrase. Poetic license. Prose.

The truth as we know it, is that Ngannou's fight with Fury was made intriguing by virtue of Fury's total lack of seriousness combined with Francis' long displayed decent boxing talent and dog determination; and his frightening KO at the hands of Joshua was a true guage of how he stacks up in the deep waters of boxing.

I don't care too much about him fighting Renan Ferreira, who's ranked no. 10 in the world at the moment, though Jon Jones or Tom Aspinall as followups would be interesting legacy fights; but I really would be far more curious to see him in under clean rules against, say; Jared Anderson!

Who was more "built up"??? Battle of the Hype jobs!!!

There would be enough casual fans right here on this board who would actually give Ngannou a chance for that fight to have a purpose.

Fights are funny. You kick me in the leg - I jab you in the eyeballs. But clean it up with rules like the Greeks, Romans and English did, and you've got something pure to measue with.

I'd pay to see it.

[TMLT87]

you can EASILY count on your fingers the number of other MMA professionals ever, who might stand a chance against him on respective best days (Fedor Emelianenko 40-7-0. RUS, Stipe Miocic. 20-4-0. US, Antonio Robrigo Nogueira. 34-10-1. BRZ, Cain Velasquez. 14-3-0. US, Fabricio Werdum. 24-9-1. BRZ, Jon Jones. 27-1-0. US, Junior Dos Santos. 21-10-0. BRZ, Randy Couture. 19-11-0. US, Josh Barnett. 35-8-0. US, and Tim Sylvia. 31-10-0. US).

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.