Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

the ref should have stopped it after the second knockdown he looked puzzled and he didnt want to be there.

 

What’s next for Ngannou?

 

I think hes gonna keep boxing tbh, for diminishing returns. I could see Ngannou/Wilder happening next although it really shouldnt.

What he should do is take that 30 mil or whatever it was he just made and retire. Or if hes really intent on still fighting work things out with the UFC for the Jon Jones fight, a fight that he could win and that even in losing wouldnt involve him taking serious brain trauma.

PFL wanted him to fight that Ferreira guy, who is 6'8 260lbs and can punch a bit. It seemed like a mismatch before but now AJ has cracked that chin I could see Ngannou being at risk even at that level in his own sport.

 

Probably retirement. He must be contemplating the fact that he tarnished his opportunity to become the best ever MMA HW to pursue Boxing money.

 

It would be hard to get excited about another big boxing match with Ngannou in the main event, and who's gonna pay for that? He's 0-2 and AJ made him look like an absolute buffoon, which pretty much erases from most peoples' minds his close match with a clearly unprepared Fury.

Ngannou should go back to MMA if he still wants to fight, or just retire with his set-for-life money.

 

No not retire. He has to fight Jon Jones in the UFC. Even before the Fury fight i wanted to see that and hoped he wouldnt go to boxing but fights Jones instead. It was unrealistic since he had a big fallout with Dana.

I hope Jones vs Ngannou takes place, and 1 year ago or today my money is on Jon.

 

It's unfair that Ngannou made so much money while real boxers are waiting in line to make some money...

 

Well first off recoup from that sickening knockout and reassess where his head's at (in the audience at Riyadh, ba-doom tish!).

If he wants to stick around boxing give him a few easyish fights against an Arreola or Washington type to see how he does. If he loses them then retirement probably beckons. If he wins then set him up with a bigger but beatable name, like a Whyte or Wilder. All that would have to be done fairly soon as none of them are spring chickens

 

Spend some time recovering. That knockout was brutal.

He just got his cash-out money from these two fights. He should probably retire. Doubt there’s another big money fight out there for him anyway after that performance.

 

Dana White must’ve went through a whole bottle of lotion after seeing Ngannou getting KOed.

On thread, I have no idea. His chin is not there against big punchers and that’s largely what todays HW division consists of.

 

Hopefully Ngannou goes back to MMA and we stop seeing these silly Boxing vs MMA fights. Yesterdays fight happened exactly they way it should have happened the first time.

 

Ngannou is there for the taking now for Fury low morale, Fury should rematch him to get back any sort of credibility first before facing Usyk

 

A man who had never so much as put on a pair of gloves twelve months ago got sparked out by a two-time world champion. I'm certainly convinced...

 

I've seen this "garbage" repeated on Twitter/X, as well.

You can't even score a convincing KO any more without conspiracy theorists popping up.

That was a classic one-punch KO. One guy out on the floor. The best result any fight can have.

No judges to screw anything up. Nothing to argue. One guy clearly won. One guy clearly lost, flat on his back. OUT. Bring in the oxygen.

(So, of course, people have to find something to argue about.)

Side note: Sonny Liston's argument was he was waiting for Ali to go to a neutral corner and he got up and was fighting when the fight was stopped. Ngannou wasn't up and fighting with Joshua when the fight was waved off. He was out.

 

Idiot trolling.

Franklin is a professional boxer. So is Helenius. If you consider them in the same breath as Ngannou you are an idiot.