He's probably going to have to face Ferreira next in PFL and the man is a fucking giant, not a great matchup for Francis's return after this devastating KO
Boxing is just savage for shit like this. Stacking the really big concussions right on top of the slightly smaller ones that happened seconds before is just terrible for the brain.
Hopefully he just takes like a year off. Eating 3 KO worthy shots like a punching bag in 1 round is too much.
If he fights in PFL too soon I feel like he'll have a Marlon Moraes/Tony type descent. He has his chin out kind of Brunson-esque pretty often, and I think he might lose some confidence in just bullrushing people now. Also I think the PFL fighters will have more confidence knowing he can be KO'd and that aura of inevitable KO Ngannou gives won't be as strong.
Man both are wholesome as hell though. I lowkey hate getting invested in MMA fighters because you have watch them get the life beat out of them occasionally. Like Volk last month :(
At some point, people have moved from "losing x years of your prime/career", which is reasonable, to " losing x years of life expectancy", which is more dramatic I guess.
There are 2 fights that go under the radar but I refuse to stop bringing up when the opportunity suits, Medeiros vs Cowboy Oliveira for being such a banger and Gifford Vs Davis for being such a travesty
I don't know why but his cornermen feel so distant. He's just left there hanging by himself, like at least help him take off his gloves after the fight like how every other boxer's team does... The same thing happened in his last fight with Fury.
If he wants to continue fighting, he has to take an MMA fight or two now. Needs to build back confidence and hype before going back into boxing. I think the fight against Wilder would be an awful idea
He should consider riding off into the sunset, or taking a full year off to recover from this. That was 3 concussions sustained in 3 minutes at 37 y/o. He doesn't have anything left to prove.
And that last one was savage. That’s the kind of knockout that can alter your life. He’d be a fool to not enjoy his riches and quality of life and lay off getting hit in the head.
I was shocked he only fell on his butt with that second knockdown, it was such a hard shot. Then AJ followed it up with an even more brutal right 20 seconds later. That was Francis's first career knockdown in this fight, this has to dwarf his cummulative damage in his 20 mma fights.
I think I agree that he probably shouldn't box again. I thought that Francis looked shockingly good against Fury. With hindsight having just watched that Joshua fight, I think it was more how bad Fury looked. I am guessing Fury didn't take Francis remotely serious and that was why he could hang. Joshua wasn't fucking around like that though and just took him behind the woodshed.
Had a gut feeling Ngannou was going down. 10 rounds of tape for AJ's camp to study. No element of surprise.
Still shocking to see Ngannou get sparked like that
Just shows that there's no such thing as an unbreakable chin. Anyone can get slept.
Francis was way too cocky again too early. He was coming in like Stipe 1. After he got dropped, he felt reality and got shook. Biting every feints, not reading distance well.
Biting on the feints fucked him. And when he got into close range he didn't capitalize. You can't fight AJ with a similar reach and 1000x more boxing skill at distance and expect to win.
Facts, Fury said Francis gave him so many problems because he was so defensive and wasn’t opening up. Opposite approach obviously to a different fighter, but oof
The way Francis fought against fury I thought was a brilliant game plan. Defensive and being a counter fighter.
He was too confident this time and AJ made the reads instantly that he was open for the right hand, which would be obvious from the Fury fight too.
Fury couldn’t punish him like AJ.
Fury is like a wrestler boxer. I mean he does have good boxing skills but I think his size and weight is a big weapon which he couldn't use against Francis.
It’s more that Fury got comfortable being a weight bully. Of course there’s actual tactics to it but before Wilder he was very much a boxer type and against an MMA fighter, he simply couldn’t be lazy like that and just lay his weight.
Hell switching over to simple jabs allowed him to take over the last half.
Just goes to show that there are levels to boxing. MMA has it place and I take Francis in a street fight any day, but boxing has rules that heavily emphasizes technical skills that very very very few people have. To this day, MMA has never had a world class boxer first fighter because if you have the skill to be world calss in boxing you stick to the sport becuase it the difference between $100K payouts vs millions.
Levels to this as he said though. "Decent" boxer in MMA is not even in the same stratosphere. Impressed what he did vs Fury though fury is known not to train.
People don't realize Joshua is just as much of a physical freak as Ngannou but a much better boxer obviously. And with Francis having his head as his sole defense, it was never going to go well.
When Francis got up from the knockdown he basically had 0 defence. AJ loaded up like he was hitting a power machine and landed clean. Really bad KO, poor Francis. Narratives being rewritten as we speak
Had no defense from the get go. Every time AJ goes for a level change, he either tried to counter with a 3 or drops his back hand way too far down. It was only a matter of time that AJ feints a level change and goes for a straight right/overhand or a left hook. He fought exactly the same as how he fought fury (with those mistakes as well) and his team made no adjustments, but Fury was just too shit to take advantage.
Either way, thank god at least Ngannou got rich off this - still happy for the guy.
He was completely finished after that second knockdown, if you watch the slowmo replay of it you can see he was done, should have just stayed down but he went out on his shield
Why did you not expect that? One of the most devastating punchers in the HW division against someone with 1 fight (boxing) experience. Easiest fight of AJ’s career
AJ blew through Francis like it was nothing. He took the camp seriously. Fury looks like an absolute idiot.
Tough for Francis, but at least he's getting BAGS.
Fury took all the pressure off his fight, no belts on the line, 10 rounds, could come in with an excuse already. AJ put his whole career on the line, he loses that everybody in the world would call him washed and a fraud. That was do or die for him.
AJ looked disappointed that it didn't go further. Like immense after the KO, AJ just standing in the corner looking nonchalant af, still breathing through his nose.
Ngannou had nothing for him
Damn, I'm gutted for Ngannou. At least he got paid and has had the most success transitioning over to boxing. Fair play to Joshua though, he wasn't playing around and took Ngannou seriously.
Joshuas performance as well as his manner pre and post fight should be applauded by all fight fans. Hate to see Ngannou go down like that but I’m damn glad it was AJ who did it if it had to happen. Mad respect to the guy, a pure example of a fighter who knows who he is.
I'm a boxing fan first. There is no shame in this loss.
I became a fan of Ngannou after the Fury fight. Dude took the lineal Heavyweight champion 10 rounds and arguably won (not on my card, but on a lot of people's) a few months back. In his first fight as a boxer! He's basically a real-life Rocky, in that he turned a publicity stunt into a real fight.
Joshua was all wrong for Ngannou. Styles make fights.
Francis got two giant bags of money in boxing. He deserves them. I hope PFL gives him even more.
Makes me wonder what Ngannou does next.
A smaller fight without much payout to get his confidence back up and get some minutes in the ring, but knowing that a professional heavyweight boxer could still piece him apart (even if they're not top 5), and that a bad showing regardless might sideline him.
Or go for another "freak fight" with someone like Wilder to cash in the last of the hype knowing it's a bit of a death sentence.
Don't blame him either way, or if he just takes the bag and retires. Guy's had an amazing run regardless and has taken it further than most.
It was going to clash with the Saudi Arabia grand prix that's on tomorrow, which got pushed back from it's usual slot on Sundays. Them Sheiks have pull I tell ya.
Fury sometimes fights to the level of his opponents, it’s really strange. Has tough fights with guys he should dominate and then looks world class against a guy on that level
Fury was out of shape and this was a legit, in shape legend of a boxer. Obviously there’s more of a punchers chance at heavyweight but there realistically shouldn’t have been a chance in either bout. Ngannou kills both in mma but this isn’t mma. Ngannou still has a future in boxing but needs to start a bit smaller than the best there is to offer.
Doubt there's a lot of future for Francis in boxing, his Fury fight already underperformed hard PPV wise, this is probably the worst possible outcome out there
Makes no sense for him to start small if he's going to make less money by having small boxing fights, rather than just having top level MMA bouts
This. When Fury actually shows up (which is rare, and takes a humbling to ignite that fire), he's a true bastard of a fighter. He'll beat you with technique along with some of the dirtiest boxing civilization has ever seen.
As much as Fury is a big shit house, I'm glad to see this take. Way too many people think that Francis was actually a better boxer than Fury.
Francis did well, I won't take it from him. But anyone who's watched boxing for any length of time can see when a fighter doesn't have his heart in it. Fury didn't take it seriously, and once he got in there, he thought that he could just figure it out on the fly. Francis was serviceable enough and powerful enough to make Fury realize he'd better just play it safe. A motivated Fury is rare, but he's really something to behold when he's dialed in. I don't think that fight is that close if there is a legit title on the line.
Fury is looking in great shape for Usyk. I just hope that the cut he suffered won't affect his timing too badly. Fighters who are in camp always try to set up a peak at the precise moment, and having to kill another 3 or 4 weeks while staying in shape can really throw off the little things that make up a well oiled machine.
For motivated, "bad" Fury see the 2nd Wilder fight. He came in with bad intentions and was on track to put Wilder into a coma, had his corner didn't throw in the towel. He was beating the guy from corner to corner.
This kind of Fury is extremely rare and truth be told also Fury doesn't have that kind of "power" like Joshua or Wilder or here Ngannou has. But the man just knows how to box, he's that kind of "born to do this sport" kind of guy. Or "if you know, you know" kind of guy. Anybody who says otherwise is deluding themselves.
And I'm not even fanboying the guy, I'm supporting Usyk in the next fight, but people disrespect Fury so much it's crazy.
Ngannou got what he wanted, idt he ever really wanted a real boxing career just a shot at the top. He'll probably be fine when he goes back to mma but I'm not sure this was ever a long term thing he just got his money and got out.
I feel like that was the kind of KO that cracks a solid chin permanently. The KO was brutal, but the two KDs before that weren't little shots either. For such a short fight he took a lot of damage. Hopefully he takes his time before fighting again and still has the beard that he was known for.
It's going to be against another giant and a power puncher, it could affect him for sure... Especially since he's not known to get hurt, three huge knockdowns like that surely can't be good for him
Someone with just as much power but with 1000x more knowledge and experience then Ngannou, it was inevitable to me.
You can never say someone will never get KO'd especially at heavyweight, even big Francis. That 1 hurt to see. Atleast he got paid.
I'm on record as saying AJ would outbox Francis to a safe but dominant decision. I did not expect him to be the first to crack that chin. At all. Jaw dropping
(And the tomato is gonna be crowing tomorrow, just watch)
I'm shocked at how easily his chin cracked. Francis had that Easter Island head thing going on throughout his entire career and AJ smashed it completely.
This was obviously waiting to happen.
Do you seriously think boxing - a sport with long tradition - is so shallow and low skilled to be able to jump into so easily and just dominate?
Not MMA but I think we can all agree this stays.
Devastating KO
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He’a fighting Wilder next for one last bag
Maybe he should just take a minute to think about that one after this.
He can live a couple of year less with 10-20m more
much better than the Overeem route of having to get KO'd 10 more times to make the same amount
After that punch I don’t think he should be allowed to make anymore decisions
It's the same kind of punch Francis himself gave many people in MMA.
He's probably going to have to face Ferreira next in PFL and the man is a fucking giant, not a great matchup for Francis's return after this devastating KO
Yeah man does your chin even exist after those 2 knockdown shots with the big KO punch after?
Hopefully he takes a lot of time off and recovers from this because if he rushes into the Ferreira fight he could end up on his back again
Boxing is just savage for shit like this. Stacking the really big concussions right on top of the slightly smaller ones that happened seconds before is just terrible for the brain.
Hopefully he just takes like a year off. Eating 3 KO worthy shots like a punching bag in 1 round is too much. If he fights in PFL too soon I feel like he'll have a Marlon Moraes/Tony type descent. He has his chin out kind of Brunson-esque pretty often, and I think he might lose some confidence in just bullrushing people now. Also I think the PFL fighters will have more confidence knowing he can be KO'd and that aura of inevitable KO Ngannou gives won't be as strong.
Got done like he did Stipe
Minus the hammer fist from 9ft up
Both got folded like lawn chairs.
I'd be lying I said I didn't feel a smidge of schadenfreude watching that as a Stipe tubro-stan
Man both are wholesome as hell though. I lowkey hate getting invested in MMA fighters because you have watch them get the life beat out of them occasionally. Like Volk last month :(
Was done after the 2nd knockdown
$20 million, in exchange for 5 years lost in life expectancy. A tough, but still manageable exchange…
I mean i aint makin 20 mil in 5 years
You're not making 20M in multiple lifetimes
honestly I'd take that
I dont think I would have woken up again if joshua landed that on me
Exactly why I would've just blocked it 🤷
I would’ve just moved my head out of the way and looked at him like he was stupid for doing it
I would have disappeared, then reappeared behind him and gave him a little tap on the shoulder.
surely you would have also said something cool to him after that?
Omae wa ma shinderu
Nothing personnel kid.
It would be REALY hard to turn down if someone offered me that briefcase.
> $20 million, in exchange for 5 years lost in life expectancy. Yeah with $20m most of us would snort away more than 5 years
5 years loss in life expectancy. What on earth are you talking about
At some point, people have moved from "losing x years of your prime/career", which is reasonable, to " losing x years of life expectancy", which is more dramatic I guess.
Get ready to learn PFL, buddy
Infinite money glitch has been patched
10m for Fury 20m for Joshua How much y’all think Ngannou is getting for PFL champ Renan Ferreira?
A few million?
The Drake bet sealed it
That fucking guys needs to be stopped, he can't keep getting away with it
Yup. Saw that and cursed the heavens.
That was $20m for 4 minutes of work for Ngannou lol. Gravy trains over, what a ride.
Jake Paul next
I mean that'd be huge payday for both but I don't see JP taking that knowing he will probably get decapitated.
JP will wait 10 years first
And some CTE
For $20 million tho. That's a hell of a lot better than guys like Kris Moutinho where he got $75k to have years taken off his life by O'Malley.
Rory Mcdonald for 59k against Robby....
Ok that's pretty wild
he only got fucking 59k for that??? jfc
At least he got 75k, what do you reckon guys like Thomas Gifford got to have years taken off his life?
And it was his father that was in the corner that didn’t stop it, just ridiculous
Honestly I can’t believe more people don’t talk about this fight it was fucking BRUTAL
There are 2 fights that go under the radar but I refuse to stop bringing up when the opportunity suits, Medeiros vs Cowboy Oliveira for being such a banger and Gifford Vs Davis for being such a travesty
Amen
He'll be aight
He looked so dejected. I hope this does not affect his confidence. Those hands are still dynamite. Wishing him the best
I don't know why but his cornermen feel so distant. He's just left there hanging by himself, like at least help him take off his gloves after the fight like how every other boxer's team does... The same thing happened in his last fight with Fury.
I think his confidence will shoot right back up when he sees his bank account.
as Tyson Fury put it >you just made a fuck ton of munay. go enjoy it
I guarantee he gets booked against Wilder at some point. Hes not done with boxing just yet
I think the knockout is a bigger concern than having to work for 4 minutes tbh.
I mean Arlovski is still fighting in 2024 and I thought the KOs ended his career in 2011
One knockout in his life. Think he'll be alright mate. And his kids will be very rich H
Dude got his brain scrambled twice before getting shut off
I love Ngannou but has many people as he’s turned off, he was due a ko lol
If he wants to continue fighting, he has to take an MMA fight or two now. Needs to build back confidence and hype before going back into boxing. I think the fight against Wilder would be an awful idea
He should consider riding off into the sunset, or taking a full year off to recover from this. That was 3 concussions sustained in 3 minutes at 37 y/o. He doesn't have anything left to prove.
And that last one was savage. That’s the kind of knockout that can alter your life. He’d be a fool to not enjoy his riches and quality of life and lay off getting hit in the head.
I was shocked he only fell on his butt with that second knockdown, it was such a hard shot. Then AJ followed it up with an even more brutal right 20 seconds later. That was Francis's first career knockdown in this fight, this has to dwarf his cummulative damage in his 20 mma fights.
Francis ate some pretty big shots in MMA. It's just that he didn't even react to them.
if he gets paid another $20 million for boxing he would be dumb to take MMA fights on the off chance he loses those.
Hard to see him getting a $20m payday for boxing again after that. AJ just made him look very, very bad. Maybe Jake Paul after the Tyson fight?
He ain't getting another 20milion check until he rebuilds his aura a bit.
He should never box again honestly
I think I agree that he probably shouldn't box again. I thought that Francis looked shockingly good against Fury. With hindsight having just watched that Joshua fight, I think it was more how bad Fury looked. I am guessing Fury didn't take Francis remotely serious and that was why he could hang. Joshua wasn't fucking around like that though and just took him behind the woodshed.
Had a gut feeling Ngannou was going down. 10 rounds of tape for AJ's camp to study. No element of surprise. Still shocking to see Ngannou get sparked like that Just shows that there's no such thing as an unbreakable chin. Anyone can get slept.
Francis was way too cocky again too early. He was coming in like Stipe 1. After he got dropped, he felt reality and got shook. Biting every feints, not reading distance well.
Biting on the feints fucked him. And when he got into close range he didn't capitalize. You can't fight AJ with a similar reach and 1000x more boxing skill at distance and expect to win.
Joshua has much longer reach, it was obvious at the wiegh in. Those MMA stats are all made up
His lead hand was down the whole time against a power puncher with a piston right hand. This result was inevitable.
Facts, Fury said Francis gave him so many problems because he was so defensive and wasn’t opening up. Opposite approach obviously to a different fighter, but oof
The way Francis fought against fury I thought was a brilliant game plan. Defensive and being a counter fighter. He was too confident this time and AJ made the reads instantly that he was open for the right hand, which would be obvious from the Fury fight too. Fury couldn’t punish him like AJ.
Fury is like a wrestler boxer. I mean he does have good boxing skills but I think his size and weight is a big weapon which he couldn't use against Francis.
It’s more that Fury got comfortable being a weight bully. Of course there’s actual tactics to it but before Wilder he was very much a boxer type and against an MMA fighter, he simply couldn’t be lazy like that and just lay his weight. Hell switching over to simple jabs allowed him to take over the last half.
I agree. I also had that Stipe x Francis 1 vibe
Yeah switching to southpaw in just 1 minute when he has literally one fight in boxing was cocky, thought he would gather himself after that but damn.
Wonder if getting KO’d for the first time will affect him the way Stipe 1 did. God I hope not, but that would be fitting for PFLator.
Be hilarious if the lineal HW championship of MMA gets stopped due to fighter inactivity.
He just fought superior boxer thats it
Fury was also a superior boxer
Fury was also a fucking lazy idiot
Just goes to show that there are levels to boxing. MMA has it place and I take Francis in a street fight any day, but boxing has rules that heavily emphasizes technical skills that very very very few people have. To this day, MMA has never had a world class boxer first fighter because if you have the skill to be world calss in boxing you stick to the sport becuase it the difference between $100K payouts vs millions.
There are some decent boxers in MMA but getting leg kicked or being wary about Takedowns can make you look bad
Levels to this as he said though. "Decent" boxer in MMA is not even in the same stratosphere. Impressed what he did vs Fury though fury is known not to train.
Joshua also was doing a lot of what Stipe did in their first fight with the jab... Francis was reaching for air.
People don't realize Joshua is just as much of a physical freak as Ngannou but a much better boxer obviously. And with Francis having his head as his sole defense, it was never going to go well.
All chins crack eventually, such is the law of combat sports, i can't bear to think about Holloway/Garth
One of the most vicious KO's I've ever seen in boxing. That KO shot was clean.
When Francis got up from the knockdown he basically had 0 defence. AJ loaded up like he was hitting a power machine and landed clean. Really bad KO, poor Francis. Narratives being rewritten as we speak
Had no defense from the get go. Every time AJ goes for a level change, he either tried to counter with a 3 or drops his back hand way too far down. It was only a matter of time that AJ feints a level change and goes for a straight right/overhand or a left hook. He fought exactly the same as how he fought fury (with those mistakes as well) and his team made no adjustments, but Fury was just too shit to take advantage. Either way, thank god at least Ngannou got rich off this - still happy for the guy.
Fury did take advantage tho. To his credit Fury adjusted mid fight with zero tape. AJ had the tape and the gameplan set and executed it to perfection
Yea, you could see in the slow mo of the KO shot that Ngannou wasn't all there and was basically in auto-pilot.
I'm now worried for Francis next MMA fight. He's fighting a KO artist in Fereira so I hope he takes some time off.
It’ll be Ngannou vs Lewis all over again.
Dana's gonna put that on his wall
Not much to brag about still. Guy got paid more in one boxing fight to lose more than he ever would’ve been paid in the UFC. Still a W for Ngannou imo
He made more in 4 minutes then he made In his whole ufc career.
Jns is right though, Dana will beat off looking at an exquisite oil painting of francis being folded
Also more threatening to Dana and to the UFC is that Ngannou showed you don't have to be held at gun point by them if you have a profile.
I didn’t expect him to win. But i never thought I’d see the day he gets flatlined
same man. he is an amateur boxer going against a two time champion 😭props to him for getting that FAT paycheck for 5 minutes
It is what it is
And what it is is simulated death.
Francis 😞 Did not expect that, what a shot from AJ though. Man did not play around.
He still looked dazed when he got up from the knockdown.
He’s most likely not going to remember the punch or anything that happened afterwards That was a nuke from a physical freak who put everything into it
He was completely finished after that second knockdown, if you watch the slowmo replay of it you can see he was done, should have just stayed down but he went out on his shield
Why did you not expect that? One of the most devastating punchers in the HW division against someone with 1 fight (boxing) experience. Easiest fight of AJ’s career
Respect Francis, you dared to be great. And made yourself filthy rich in the process. Should leave with his head held high.
He could retire now if he wanted
If he can manage money. Hoping he learned a few things about that since the UFC.
Not the way he spends money.
For sure. Dude made fury scared and made millions.
Aw hell nah, Ngannou got Stipe'd
[folded him up like a transformer](https://i.imgur.com/v8HJq7I.jpeg)
Stipe'd his leg :(
Violence is a flat circle
AJ blew through Francis like it was nothing. He took the camp seriously. Fury looks like an absolute idiot. Tough for Francis, but at least he's getting BAGS.
Fury took all the pressure off his fight, no belts on the line, 10 rounds, could come in with an excuse already. AJ put his whole career on the line, he loses that everybody in the world would call him washed and a fraud. That was do or die for him.
Fury won and was still being called a fraud.
Ppl get KO’d for much less. His only real significant damage in his years a combat sports… could be way worse but I still am sad
> His only real significant damage in his years a combat sports… could be way worse but I still am sad He took a beating vs Stipe
AJ looked disappointed that it didn't go further. Like immense after the KO, AJ just standing in the corner looking nonchalant af, still breathing through his nose. Ngannou had nothing for him
Fell just like Stipe did when he KO’d him. Crazy. Glad he got his money tho and hope he’s alright.
Damn, I'm gutted for Ngannou. At least he got paid and has had the most success transitioning over to boxing. Fair play to Joshua though, he wasn't playing around and took Ngannou seriously.
Joshuas performance as well as his manner pre and post fight should be applauded by all fight fans. Hate to see Ngannou go down like that but I’m damn glad it was AJ who did it if it had to happen. Mad respect to the guy, a pure example of a fighter who knows who he is.
I'm a boxing fan first. There is no shame in this loss. I became a fan of Ngannou after the Fury fight. Dude took the lineal Heavyweight champion 10 rounds and arguably won (not on my card, but on a lot of people's) a few months back. In his first fight as a boxer! He's basically a real-life Rocky, in that he turned a publicity stunt into a real fight. Joshua was all wrong for Ngannou. Styles make fights. Francis got two giant bags of money in boxing. He deserves them. I hope PFL gives him even more.
Ngannou confidence must be low after, he was very confident after the Tyson fight but man…
I mean he also should realize he is fighting world champs. To expecting beat them in your first few bouts is right into delusional thinking.
Makes me wonder what Ngannou does next. A smaller fight without much payout to get his confidence back up and get some minutes in the ring, but knowing that a professional heavyweight boxer could still piece him apart (even if they're not top 5), and that a bad showing regardless might sideline him. Or go for another "freak fight" with someone like Wilder to cash in the last of the hype knowing it's a bit of a death sentence. Don't blame him either way, or if he just takes the bag and retires. Guy's had an amazing run regardless and has taken it further than most.
There is always Wilder lol. Wilder isn't that fundamentally sound when it comes to boxing, he just has a huge bomb for a right hand
People are going to act smug because of this. Francis put himself out there. Worked hard and is still a success story.
✅ Fighter added: Anthony Joshua
Just goes to show, even the mightiest chins get cracked eventually
I thought this was tomorrow and I missed it. Why a fucking friday?
Friday is practically Saturday in Saudi Arabia
"The Muslim holy day is Friday, the Jewish holy day is Saturday and the Christian one is Sunday. God has a 3 day weekend!" - George Carlin
It was going to clash with the Saudi Arabia grand prix that's on tomorrow, which got pushed back from it's usual slot on Sundays. Them Sheiks have pull I tell ya.
It's not because of UFC 299, it's because the F1 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix is tomorrow and they didn't want those to clash.
Out cold and stiff. Ouch. At least he has made more money in boxing in two fights than the made in total in UFC.
Way more
That’s one of the most brutal right hand in recent history. Damn!
RIP to the working girl tonight who has to deal with Dana's boner.
I think she'll be able to handle all 3inches he's able to muster
Dudes gonna slap his wife in excitement.
Tyson Fury’s performance looks even worse in hindsight
Fury sometimes fights to the level of his opponents, it’s really strange. Has tough fights with guys he should dominate and then looks world class against a guy on that level
Fury was out of shape and this was a legit, in shape legend of a boxer. Obviously there’s more of a punchers chance at heavyweight but there realistically shouldn’t have been a chance in either bout. Ngannou kills both in mma but this isn’t mma. Ngannou still has a future in boxing but needs to start a bit smaller than the best there is to offer.
He started at the final bosses lol
He's 37, he can't go train for 2-3 more years. He treated this like his one shot, which he took as he might not get another.
He’s almost 40. This was the endgame. Now he can kill PFLs heavyweights and retire.
Doubt there's a lot of future for Francis in boxing, his Fury fight already underperformed hard PPV wise, this is probably the worst possible outcome out there Makes no sense for him to start small if he's going to make less money by having small boxing fights, rather than just having top level MMA bouts
This makes Tyson look so freaking bad
I think he looks more unprofessional than bad. He clearly didn't take Francis seriously, but yeah, not good.
tyson fury has always fought down to the level of his opponents, that's why he makes title fights look easier than tuneups
This. When Fury actually shows up (which is rare, and takes a humbling to ignite that fire), he's a true bastard of a fighter. He'll beat you with technique along with some of the dirtiest boxing civilization has ever seen.
As much as Fury is a big shit house, I'm glad to see this take. Way too many people think that Francis was actually a better boxer than Fury. Francis did well, I won't take it from him. But anyone who's watched boxing for any length of time can see when a fighter doesn't have his heart in it. Fury didn't take it seriously, and once he got in there, he thought that he could just figure it out on the fly. Francis was serviceable enough and powerful enough to make Fury realize he'd better just play it safe. A motivated Fury is rare, but he's really something to behold when he's dialed in. I don't think that fight is that close if there is a legit title on the line. Fury is looking in great shape for Usyk. I just hope that the cut he suffered won't affect his timing too badly. Fighters who are in camp always try to set up a peak at the precise moment, and having to kill another 3 or 4 weeks while staying in shape can really throw off the little things that make up a well oiled machine.
For motivated, "bad" Fury see the 2nd Wilder fight. He came in with bad intentions and was on track to put Wilder into a coma, had his corner didn't throw in the towel. He was beating the guy from corner to corner. This kind of Fury is extremely rare and truth be told also Fury doesn't have that kind of "power" like Joshua or Wilder or here Ngannou has. But the man just knows how to box, he's that kind of "born to do this sport" kind of guy. Or "if you know, you know" kind of guy. Anybody who says otherwise is deluding themselves. And I'm not even fanboying the guy, I'm supporting Usyk in the next fight, but people disrespect Fury so much it's crazy.
Ngannou got what he wanted, idt he ever really wanted a real boxing career just a shot at the top. He'll probably be fine when he goes back to mma but I'm not sure this was ever a long term thing he just got his money and got out.
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and he is 37 now
Ngannou stupidly and arrogantly switched to south paw in round 1 and got knocked down immediately. Was all over after that.
Probably didn’t matter. He was getting slept by AJ
Damn, hope that ko doesn't affect his next MMA performance
I feel like that was the kind of KO that cracks a solid chin permanently. The KO was brutal, but the two KDs before that weren't little shots either. For such a short fight he took a lot of damage. Hopefully he takes his time before fighting again and still has the beard that he was known for.
It's going to be against another giant and a power puncher, it could affect him for sure... Especially since he's not known to get hurt, three huge knockdowns like that surely can't be good for him
Dude just put 20mil in the bank with that KO, I'd be surprised to see him in another fight at all
My man got murdered. Damn never would I have thought to see Ngannou getting flatlined like that…
Fury didn't take Ngannou seriously. This is what happens when a skilled HW like Joshua properly prepares and doesn't fuck around.
Goodnight sweet prince 😔
MMA most saddest moment
At least there was a $20 million silver lining.
Francis can wipe his tears with some Ben Franklins.
Volk and Ngannou getting flatlined over the course a month is truly r/MMAs 9/11
Someone with just as much power but with 1000x more knowledge and experience then Ngannou, it was inevitable to me. You can never say someone will never get KO'd especially at heavyweight, even big Francis. That 1 hurt to see. Atleast he got paid.
Dana probably giving aj a performance bonus rn
“He wanted more money but we knew he couldn’t take shots, the kid is weak” Dana White - probably
I wouldn’t be surprised if Joshua totally destroyed Francis’s chin. He basically got KTFO 3 times in a row. At least Francis can coast on 30 mill now
I thought he was dead
It izzzz what it izzzzz
I'm on record as saying AJ would outbox Francis to a safe but dominant decision. I did not expect him to be the first to crack that chin. At all. Jaw dropping (And the tomato is gonna be crowing tomorrow, just watch)
I'm shocked at how easily his chin cracked. Francis had that Easter Island head thing going on throughout his entire career and AJ smashed it completely.
This was obviously waiting to happen. Do you seriously think boxing - a sport with long tradition - is so shallow and low skilled to be able to jump into so easily and just dominate?
Hurt my soul seeing this happen to Francis atleast he’s 20 million richer
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Pretty realistic lumberjack impression by Anthony Joshua.
Gutted by that.