Jesus christ, does boxing want to hurt it's image further (not to mention Fury's resume)? Ngannou will stop Wilder in 1 round. Wilder has zero chin, nothing, zip, none. Did you see Fury even put a mark on Ngannou? Nope. Did you see him hurt Ngannou once? Nope. Ngannou has something that neither Fury or Wilder has, a chin. If Ngannou clips Wilder with one of the clean shots he landed on Fury, he's going to sleep. Wilder is buzzed by C+ level power jabs. Not to mention Ngannou has been in training with someone who would outbox Wilder (yes, I mean over the hill Takam). Go and watch Paul Gallen vs Lucas Browne. That is what the Ngannou vs Wilder fight would look like (minus the size disparity). Ngannou would walk the skinny Wilder down and stop him.
This would be awesome and hopefully get wilder the mainstream recognition in America he so richly deserves. The bronze bomber still has time to rewrite his legacy because of his willingness to take the big fights
If Wilder takes this fight and KO's Ngannou he will redeem himself 100% despite all the excuses and cherrypicking
People saying this is awesome.... Is it though? People 'popping over' to do a bit of boxing, being ranked and getting massive fights straight from the off doesn't sit well with me when there's so many struggling career fighters in the game slogging it out year upon year with many fighters never get any chances to make a decent living from the game, yet we get debutants and youtubers making millions. Its making a mockery of a supposedly pro sport! Could you imagine this **** happening in any other professional sport? It does nothing but cheapen the sport of boxing!
A guy with a 0 - 1 record is now the lead candidate for the top ranked heavyweight. What a sorry ass state of heavyweight boxing.
It happens occasionally with stars from pro snooker crossing over into pro pool. Though at least that generally has a tournament format. That is the problem here, the WBC are desperate to give this all legitimacy based off a circus fight going horribly wrong because their belt is now a laughing stock, that they will insert him in the top 10.
Oh yeh, i forgot about pool, similar thing with the mma and boxing there too isn't it... In the way of the snooker lads going over to pool and the pool lads not going over to snooker with it being far more difficult to play than pool. Lol
I remember watching the Winter Olympics as a kid and we as the Dutch are always very dominant at Speed Skating. But that particular Olympics the American skeeler team had transitioned to Speed Skating and made it very competitive. And it was awesome!!! Also Nigel Mansell after winning the 1992 F1 title went to Indycar and won the 1993 Indycar title and created a big buzz.
Of all the negatives you can say about Wilder, you choose to question his power? Dude's right hand is legit. P4P, he is one of the biggest punchers in heavyweight history.
With the right gameplan IMO Ngannou would win. Ngannou shouldn't let Wilder powerbomb him from distance, because then he'd be in trouble. Rather than an inside fight and clinch, because Ngannou is far physically stronger. Wilder would give way sooner or later on his unsteady legs. Ngannou should have the gameplan that Wlad used for years, and he would beat Wilder; by knockout.
I still like Wilder in this fight but its one of those matches where I could see Ngannou outboxing Wilder and maBe catching Wilder. I do think if Wilder lands that right hand its good night for Ngannou...I dont care what anyone says about chins. I think most any other top boxer: Ruiz, Zhang, Pakee, Usyk, erc however could outbox Ngannou. They would fight smarter than Fury and we have fight tape of him now.
Wouldn't Ngannou simply be able to use his massive weight advantage to bully Wilder and back him down, keep him off-balance, Kronk-style, a la Fury's playbook? Fury proved Wilder usually needs to be able to plant his feet and set up that big overhand right, unless it's a lucky punch against a careless opponent like Helenius.