Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

I'm sorry but nothing there suggests he's been hit like a big punching heavyweight boxer hits. The kicks are more glancing than anything and he's took nothing clean on the button there. I stand by what I've said before that AJ will go through him like a bad case of the squits.

 

Even though AJ is feasting on fury’s leftovers, this heavyweight merry go round is getting interesting

 

Another fight that makes a mockery of the sport.

 

This is SO disappointing. AJ is a bum for doing this 100%. So many boxers waiting for their big payday only for 0-1 guy to cut in line.

And all that talk about Hrgovic and wanting the IBF belt. LOL bro, just fight Logan Paul next why won't you.

Hope Ngannou wins srsly.

 

If AJ loses, it will break the fact that in boxing, an MMA fighter can't beat a boxer - boxing will become a laughingstock and no one will be interested in it anymore.

 

To casuals yes. But to people who know boxing, they will know that at heavyweight anything can happen.

Put a strong, good puncher, good grappler, good chin and heart, then skills matter a lot less at heavyweight.

 

With Ngannou overperforming against Fury I expect Aj to train like he's fighting Fury or Usyk

He will likely do a number on Francis, as he has much more power than Fury. Frank won't walk through him

Though if Francis lands hard??

 

Useless fight that does nothing for AJ's resume. Not to mention a 0-1 fighter is skipping the line for the big payday.

It is what it is, it's his life at the end of the day and he can fight whoever he likes. I'll be rooting for Ngannou.

 

I doubt that Ngannou can threaten a motivated Joshua.

 

Francis is that good an athlete that I doubt it would. Heavyweight is also different from the rest of the divisions. I’d say NcGregor had beaten Floyd, it would have been far far worse.

 

How about you give Francis his props?

Francis is clearly the strongest clincher in HW boxing history
Francis clearly has a really solid chin better than most heavyweightsprobably from rolling around on his neck in MMA for 10 years
Francis is clearly a smart boxer with fighter experience in MMA, he made no real fundamental mistakes against Fury. He's flat footed but so are most heavyweights
He clearly also hits pretty damn hard
His stamina exceeds that of a normal debutant

He won't beat AJ because AJ will use his jab properly and actually put some damage out of Francis using it. Francis won't be able to outjab AJ. Fury didn't come to jab Francis and when he was forced back into that kind of fight he wasn't prepared for it looking sloppy in the process.

AJ will prepper Francis with jabs up to the mid bout where Francis's composure will start to falter in the face of a heavyweight who actually hits relatively hard, then AJ will crack him down with a right hand, in theory. AJ late fight TKO.

 

Fury shoot boxing in both knees in fight with Ngannou.
Joshua is here to repair what Gypsy Queen destroyed that day...

 

Fury is here to reclaim the belts back to Britain that AJ gave up by trying box a better boxer

 

Nothing will be dead . Ngannou is not an enemy to boxing

 

When Samart Payakaroon, Khaosai Galaxy & other Muay Thai fighters became world champs in Boxing, did it kill boxing, no it just added to the Boxing talent pool

Ngannou has no MMA on the horizon now & is Boxing & if he continues to box, that's 1 more guy added to the Boxing talent pool while 1 less in MMA

Not to mention that Ngannou's decision pretty much killed a massive MMA HW fight between him & Jones while Boxing is putting on Fury vs Usyk