Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

Francis didn`t land many jabs v Fury, he`s not known for his jab, his counter hooks kept Fury off him though. The clinch is where Francis out-did Fury.

 

Fury was awful v Francis, AJ will throw and land more than Fury did.

 

Ruiz has quicker hands than Francis and is a better combo puncher, didn`t see many combos from Francis v Fury.

 

I do not see ngannou outboxing aj - but it might happen aj,s shots will just bounce off ngannou,s chin and body and aj gets quickly frustrated , mentally unsure than .

He does not have the determinatuonnof fury .

Than ngannou may just walk thru aj,s shots in the infight , overhelm him with his physical strenght and eventually hurt / knock him down .

Aj,s looks impressive but i think ngannou is physically significantly more powerful than aj .

 

You make some good points however Fury didn`t look determined in that fight at all, he looked sluggish and lazy and got ruffled when he couldn`t use his physicallity in the clinch.

 

Yes , but when fury was perplexed i see aj even more perplexed should his initial 'battle plan' against ngannou not work . I wanted to say aj is easier to metally being derailed in the ring than fury .

 

He just needs to fight the same way he fought Wallin, AJ looked bertter v Wallin than Fury did and his power will have more effect than Fury`s did.

 

Let's face it guys

A big, experienced champ like AJ should basically take Ngannou APART

But he does have a puncher's chance - and AJ needs to keep it long....

 

I will eat the other one if AJ loses!

 

AJ's shots have never 'bounced' off anyone, and the fact that a slobbish pitty-patting Fury couldn't hurt him doesn't make Ngannou an unstoppable Terminator. He's not walking through AJ's shots.

 

Ngannou probably has better two handed power than Wilder - even though his punches aren't as explosive and sudden - so you can never discount a KO, but other than that Joshua should put it in the bag.

 

That's what we should expect given that this will be only Ngannou's 2nd pro fight. But he did impress me vs Fury, I had not seen him fight at all prior to his fight with Fury and what he was, wasn't what I expected, he's not without some ability. I would not be surprised if he gave Joshua some problems early before Joshua eventually outboxing Ngannou to win a decision. I actually think he's a tougher opponent than Wallin, because he actually has weapons to hurt Joshua with, unlike Wallin.

But having said all that anything but Joshua, annihilating Ngannou will see Joshua take criticism and even if he does do that, he'll get criticised for taking a fight that was a mismatch. I honestly don't understand why Hearn and Joshua took this fight, it's a no win situation.

 

Just to mention it here as well. The fight purse is revealed.
Ngannou is going to take 20m. Twice compare to what he take for Fury
And AJ is going to make 50m.

 

If AJ comes in behind the jab and sets up his shots he should get Francis out of there by 5

 

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