Tyson Luke Fury vs. Francis Zavier Ngannou

He got choked out by a street fighter.

 

Bring em. I think they are going to be surprised at the lower weight classes where skill is actually a thing. Fury failed boxing. Make no mistake! Fat pos barely trained and abused his body.

 

Nah. Floyd handled Conor with ease.

 

Bigger paydays but a waste of their talents. Ngannou vs Jones or the Pavlovich/Aspinall winner is far more interesting than anything Ngannou can do in a boxing ring.

 

If Ngannou had trained in boxing since he was a kid, would he have become a world champion? He gave Fury about all he could handle last night.

 

Likely, yes.

 

He probably would have been completely unknown in boxing. France is hardly a major media market for the sport and in general most boxers languish in obscurity for years even if they're good. The UFC is a much bigger platform and is willing and able to fast track people to stardom. Obviously the paydays at the top arent as big but now we are in a position where MMA guys can leverage their name value into boxing main events and paydays anyway.

 

Miocic has a good boxing technique, but now he is quite old...

 

It is much easier to become a name in MMA. If he had chosen boxing he would have remained a top 100 unknown.

 

His good performance against Fury has more to do with Fury not taking his training seriously and not being dedicated to the sport of boxing. We really don't know how well Francis would have done.

 

When theres that many belts out there, yeah theres a solid possibility. But being a mild mannered French Cameroonian guy i'm not sure how hard promoters would have pushed him. He most likely became a much bigger star going the UFC route than he would have done going the boxing route.

 

What is it I hear ? Excuses.

 

Could see Alex Pereira beating someone like Chris Billam-Smith or Badou Jack without a training camp.

 

Hard to say

Lots of MMA elements and conditioning helped him totally nullify Fury's clinch game. Most heavyweights don't know how to do this because it's not taught in boxing it's learnt on the job as this type of clinching and roughhousing is technically illegal.

Francis will come unstuck against punchers in boxing and he would come unstuck against an on form pure boxing Fury.

 

of course not because fury is a wanker