2 years ago today, Francis Ngannou sends Tyson Fury to the canvas

It was a bout nobody asked for, to discover who was best between two men who didn't need to fight each other.
Two years on and this remains an absolute stain on the sport of boxing. Fury and Warren gaslit the fans, saying this was a fight we wanted, ducked the one we DID want (Usyk) and, when it actually went ahead, Fury turned up in no shape to fight. Disgraceful. And the moment I lost any respect for Fury. At least Ngannou took it seriously. And least this was the moment where the tide turned against Fury and his nonsense.

 

...You... how the **** do you score fights exactly? This is frankly a baffling argument here.

You score the rounds individually! You then add up the tally and declare the winner. In a 10 round fight a single knockdown means very little in the scheme of things; In this case Fury still needed to win 6 rounds to win the fight, and Ngannou now needed to win only 5 rounds to win the fight.

 

Clean, hard punching
effective aggression
Defense
Ring generalship
Additional points (knockdowns, penalties)

Most people get it:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/ngannou-vs-fury-who-deserved-to-win.711812/

 

Yes, and you apply those to each round you score, which you score individually. You dont simply give Ngannou several rounds because he scored a knockdown in one of them. You dont score the fight for him because he had one really good round.
There is no accumulative scoring in boxing.

 

I didn't say that. But in a close fight in which Ngannou clearly wins the clean/hard punching fight in a majority of rounds, it makes it very hard to give the fight to Fury.

Most people get it:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/ngannou-vs-fury-who-deserved-to-win.711812/

 

There was a 2nd unscored KD.

Also its kinda 2 points because it delivers the round as well. It takes 2 rounds to equal a KD round. It takes 4 to equal 2 KD rounds.

 

I scored it to Fury narrowly but man I'm getting old. I completely forgot Fury went down during the fight. That's the kind of thing I would normally remember. Dammit.

 

I think the machine that is Boxing were forced to rob Ngannou. But even Fury's biggest fans know deep down that Ngannou won the fight

It would have been a nail in the coffin if 0-0-0 Ngannou had been allowed to beat boxing's Lineal champion and lauded #1.

Sadly, it was never going to happen unless Ngannou actually knocked him out cold, and even then there would have been shenanigans afoot

All Praise Joshua

 

Exactly right. Nothing I could add.

 

The fact it was close and he had a knockdown against him is really bad for Fury. AJ showed what Fury should have been able to do as a reigning heavyweight boxing champion.

 

There is no "equaling" in a 10 round fight. Before the knockdown Fury needed at least 6 rounds to win the fight, and after the knockdown Fury still needed at least 6 rounds to win the fight. The only thing the knockdown changed was that Ngannou now needed 5 rounds to win the decision.

 

Him dodging Usyk for as long as possible then getting dropped by a big stiff cage fighter in a highly competitive fight which he just edged and then Joshua making Ngannou look like an English heavyweight title challenger will never not be highly amusing.

 

Fury entered the ring in disastrous condition that day, he hadn't taken the fight seriously enough. He was knocked down and gave a terrible performance, even though he won the fight, which I think is fair.

 

Joshua showed what you do with an MMA guy standing there posing in front of you. Same way Couture showed what you do when a boxer stands in front of an MMA guy posing

 

Fury doesn't seem to have that kind of power, though. His "power punches" were bouncing off of Ngannou.