Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

Hey, thats nothing, any halfway decent prospect in boxing gets to go 29-0, then they all avoid each other for 5 years until someone shells out $100m in fight purses.

 

Maybe.

 

I take your point but he's taking punches from MMA fighters not pro boxers.

 

He's a double legend because he has 30 fights.

 

He only lost one round his whole career.

 

Yes if only it was the standard for every MMA fighter to have a massively inflated record like boxers do, is essentially what you're getting at here.

 

It restores some credibility to the sport of boxing. Tyson Fury didn't train and showed up unprepared. No professionalism and disgraced the sport of boxing.

HW boxing is not a joke. Joshua showed the MMA bros what happens when you step into the ring against a world class HW who came prepared and had an actual training camp with proper diet, sleep and training.

I don't wish harm on anybody who gets into the ring, but Ngannou had it coming. You don't play HW boxing. When an MMA guy thinks he can walk into a boxing ring and rumble with a world class HW he and his fanboys need to be checked. Maybe it was a cash grab for Ngannou, but Joshua made him earn that money by rattling his brain. Should serve as a notice for anybody else who wants to pull this stunt.

 

I mean, he quite literally did walk into a boxing ring and rumble with a world class HW, and got paid tens of millions off the bat to do it, purely off the back of his name value from a different sport.

Blame boxing for sacrificing its integrity to get casual interest and mainstream attention. Same with the Jake Paul stuff. The door should never have been opened.

 

It was good for Fury to get a 2nd reminder that he got to where he is not because he can punch but because he cannot punch and stops opponents on attrition, skill and ring smarts. You can see he's choosing to come light against Usyk...problem is does this Kronk back and forth in straight lines nonsense work? I don't rate it, when you have someone who can take a shot or move themselves issues occur.

 

Don't care
Would prefer Francis won, but Aj showed the levels

 

I like Ngannou, he is a good man who came up the very hard way, so I didn't get much pleasure from seeing him knocked out so brutally. However the outcome does go someway in restoring the credibility of heavyweight boxing.

 

I’m glad he is not seriously hurt but boxing needed him to be crushed

 

It was still a cash grab for everyone involved. Credibility for the sport would have been Joshua and Hearn saying fight, build a career and get a proper ranking then we will talk. Instead they have joined the disgraceful Fury's antics but just turned in a far more professional performance. These fights should not be happening in the first place.

These fights tell us nothing, except that Barnum had the right idea. It was a novice against a world champion level boxer. Or have a genuine crossover fight where each athlete can use their full respective sports, otherwise it's still a joke.

 

Another problem is that a lot of these guys aren't really "mixed martial artists" at all. They're glorified wrestlers with various styles of wrestling. They have the good fortune of being in a sport where you can throw your arms around like a drunken sailor and if you happen to connect to another wrestler's chin while wearing small gloves it usually will knock them over and then you can get on top of them when they're already down and, without any skill, hammerfist the side of their temple until the referee waves off the flight. In that sport this is considered a "knockout."
In boxing, the sport of professional fist fighting, a knockout is like what you saw Anthony Joshua do where he rendered a man senseless and swept him off his feet and sent him to the Netherworld of the force with an actual punch

 

You really have to be banned from the internet and you should probably read books more. Maybe a monastery?