Worst performance by a world champion this year

Belly disgraced the sport of boxing against a rank novice but, despite his claims to the contrary, to be fair he clearly took Ngannou lightly as in he thought it would be a walk in the park

Fell hook, line and sinker for the terrible pad work ruse by Team Ngannou which to be fair fooled many others

And Ngannou is 280lbs of solid iron and muscle not flab and is an absolutely murderous punching wrecking machine who had the element of surprise and boxed a much more cerebral and cagey fight than everyone expected he would.

Ngannou has fought the best UFC HWs repeatedly and knocked many of them out in mere seconds. Imagine The Dosser knocked out Usyk, Belly, AJ, Big Bang, Hrgovic etc. all in seconds of round 1?

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Rougarou looked like absolute trash in his previous fight against a D level dollar store Haney and disturbingly clueless on how to deal with that style and close the distance so the fact a much higher caliber and bigger and longer version of an elusive risk averse rangy boxer who knows how to use their length was able to school him came as zero surprise to me and it's not like I didn't tell you all repeatedly exactly what was going to happen beforehand

Rougarou suffered a near identical early KD against Haney which wasn't even a hard shot - that's how little he learned from that very near loss to that D level dollar store Haney and how much Haney did learn from it. Haney knew it was an easy fight and perfect stylistic match up for him which is why he took the fight and ducked the rematch against Loma

But credit to Floyd for giving JLC and Maidana rematches, right? That's been the mantra for a long time but crickets when the biggest weight bully in the sport Haney ducks a rematch against a 20lb lighter, near six inch shorter reach, old man in his own backyard with a home ref and three home judges to rob the foreigner again despite the fact the vast majority of fans across the globe had Haney losing.

When only 16 or 17% of a global 118k poll, which is at least ten times the size of the largest poll I've ever seen for a fight, had you winning you'd think that fighter would want to vindicate themselves and put that wrong right if they were truly about legacy, especially when the deck couldn't be anymore stacked in their favour again and they hold an absolutely obscene size advantage over that opponent

 

Forgot about Shakur. Stick him in with a puncher his size with some athleticism and speed and suddenly this ''P4P great and future #1'' morphs into a ATG scaredy-cat and stinks the joint out something rotten. Even against Nakathila he did. His fight against Dos Santos might be the worst fight I've ever seen.

I was actually starting to warm to his talent and skills prior to that but as I keep telling you guys it's a different ball game when you start fighting world champs and top contenders your own size and length and big punchers your own size, even more so if they're athletic and fast, let alone against bigger or way bigger ones

Beating up on little guys you're much bigger or way bigger than all the time, light punchers who can't crack an egg, and T-Rex reach or shorter reach opponents with slow feet who can't close the distance and therefore land punches isn't what P4P means or should mean, especially when you're extremely risk averse and the deck is always stacked in your favour

Newsflash! You can completely outbox someone, even if they're bigger, much or way bigger than you, and punch like a mule, without stinking the joint out like a big scaredy-cat. Go watch Usyk, Loma, Bivol do it all the time against bigger or much bigger opponents and big/huge punchers.

Plenty of greats and fighters who graduated from the old US Slick School did too before that institution was ideologically captured by fear based slicksters.