Tyson Luke Fury vs. Francis Zavier Ngannou

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

 

I was most impressed by his ability to fight out of two stances, his disciplined game plan and execution, he has power and he just barely missed some bombs that would likely have connected on a shorter less elusive target. He was strong in the clinches and countered well at times. For a non boxer competing in a high profile 10 rounder I was way more impressed with him than a lot of other guys crossing over

 

not only that, also a guy who started as a boxer and also is almost completely depended on his boxing, just like mcgregor

 

Floyd was in control the entire time and carried McGregor. The only embarassing thing was, that despite his wealth, he chose money over legacy and decided to give McGregor even a chance. It was a sparring session for Floyd where he gave maybe 20%.

 

As if crushing Usyk is the easy part Ngannou is still at best a plodder in a boxing context. I ****ing knew Fury was going to look past him and he did. And he nearly paid the price. Usyk is on another planet compared to Ngannou

 

Fury wins the cake and all the candles on it.

 

Of course.. I mean if Wilder did, why wouldn't Francis?

 

Extremely normal for someone who's never boxed before. Unless his corner is instructing him to pounce of Fury then he has to make a judgements call and hope to land another clean counter. He's used to jumping on guys and smashing their face in when he knocks them down so I'm sure it's a huge culture shock honestly.

 

I think higher output guys with speed would really trouble him, but not many are around to do so.