Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

So you think AJ can walk down and maul Francis into Submission? Nope

 

I think AJ will box the ears off Ngannou and the fight will get to the point where Ngannou is so frustrated that he leaves himself open for AJ to take him out.

Fury was fat and lazy. AJ won’t make that mistake.

 

I think it could easily be AJ via UD.

 

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Dan Hardy breaks down Francis Ngannou's second Heavyweight Boxing match against Anthony Joshua ahead of their fight in March 2024.

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Francis Ngannou vs Anthony Joshua. Who wins, how and why? Can Joshua outbox the big punching Ngannou, or will Ngannou be able to find a spot to place one of his lethal punches?

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Pretty sure this will be a carbon copy of Joshua Parker and stink the Kingdom out.

 

I'm thinking Joshua wins by UD. Ngannou is big, strong, and durable, and every fight he's lost has been by decision or submission. In theory he could land a big shot, but I don't think he has enough actual skill to reliably land it as a boxer.

 

Joshua has been at the short end of two upsets in his career, first Ruiz, a biggie, and then, to a lesser extent, Usyk.

Set correctly or not, Ngannou is quite the underdog for his fight vs AJ, longer odds than Usyk but apparently shorter odds than Ruiz.

It’s probably the most speculative endeavour to attempt to get into the mindset of a fighter and possibly factor same into the outcome.

AJ has slowly but surely crawled his way back from those defeats and all credit to him for that.

However, I’m not convinced that AJ is all the way back mentally.

If AJ has let the potential and very real dangers of Ngannou’s power to get into his head, that could compromise him come fight time.

Given same, a big shot landed early by Francis might heavily influence how AJ reacts and fights thereafter - notwithstanding his preferred and perhaps most wise strategy, established before the fight.

Fury is no stranger to nor shirking of punishment but Francis’ power clearly caused Tyson himself to be very mindful not to stick his neck out. It quietened Fury down quite a bit.

Despite AJ’s better focus and confidence in recent fights, just one big shot from Francis could, perhaps, trigger the trauma the of the Ruiz blowout in the first fight if that trauma is not still lurking in AJ’s conscious psyche at any rate.

Very interested to see how this fight goes down.

 

Yes except Francis is slower than Parker, however he has more reach than Parker and AJ has no chin while Francis has more power than AJ.

 

No he doesn't have more power than AJ it's all hyped up myth. Joe Pyfer a middleweight UFC fighter beat Ngannous record on the same machine that Ngannou supposedly set this record on. They haven't made much fuss about it though for the obvious reason that it doesn't sell fights in Saudi.
Also tell is how you come to the conclusion AJ has no chin?

 

All Joshua has to do is circle to his right and throw jab. Ngannou only ability is to try and close the gap. A soon as he is close , he will throw everything he can behind a haymaker.

 

That's my Serge, good breakdown.

Iceberg will cry soon. He is very disrespectful towards to AJ.

 

I keep thinking about this and I fancy N'Gannou by KO. His reach is too long from the outside to play it safe on his bike for Joshua. On the inside he's too strong to tie up, it'll be exhausting for AJ. I also think that his chin and toughness are more durable attributes than AJ's and this will be a big factor because I expect both to land bombs.

 

I think aj stops him, fury’s not as big of a puncher as aj plus that was a terrible version of fury in there, I think aj probably stops him mid to late rounds.