And the funniest part is right If ngannou wins i see a future where he fights fury twice before usyk gets to even fight him once if that happens boxing is just a fake sport at this point
@@hiruyabebaw7140MMA fans sounding like some evil supervillains now, I watch and love both sports, so it’s very strange to see MMA fans have some weird malice towards boxing lol
I do like both but prefer mma and I can say it’s definitely both love and hate. Nobody wants there sport to seem like a joke; but many boxing fans think current boxing is a joke anyway and that Francis is a breath of fresh air. I do hope Francis runs through the heavyweight division because I like him and because it will force everyone to level there game up and evolve as a sport.
@@randomguy9940 I think that you need to grab a dictionary and look up the word humiliation. It was his only unentertaining fight. The start of his comeback. And reminded very much of Adesanya vs. Romero. One to forget.
AJ doesn't have the highest fight IQ but he's quite well schooled and will have an amazing team around him to build a strong game plan. Styles make fights and Ngannou is less well matched to AJ than he was Fury, in my opinion. He wins dragging AJ into a brawl. Looking forward to these athletes duking it out.
@@Lamborghini1YT Ruiz caught the top of AJ's head, which wrecked his equilibrium. I don't know many people who'd want to be hit clean by Ruiz either, he's got fast hands. Fury took a lot of Wilder's best work well because he knows how to roll with the punches. It's the punch you don't see coming that hurts you. Head movement has always been a big weakness for AJ in my eyes. Whatever happens, I'm happy for Ngannou. He deserves some big pay days.
@@Lamborghini1YTBro Ruiz might not be that tall but he’s still a big dude with devastating power when he is in range. Trust me, nobody wants to be hit by Ruiz.
Nah it's already a sport that people view as illegitimate and crooked because of all the politics to get fights made and all the ducking. So a beginner knocking down a disputable best of a generation makes boxing look worse. No one can take that seriously.
I’m curious as to why you believe AJ isn’t 6’6? Also, one reason I do believe AJ will fight Ngannou much better is that AJ is FAR more active and disciplined that Fury. Fury always gets massively out of shape and fights once every 2 years. AJ has been very active so I do think he will win comfortably. But Ngannou is dangerous. Also, AJ has fought in a lot of fights where he had an immense amount of pressure so I think he can handle it.
@bloon170 he may be under contract but they can't make him fight. If he keeps getting lucrative boxing opportunities he's just gonna keep boxing. The money isn't comparable.
I really dont think Ngannou is helping boxing. What boxing needs is superstars, but Ngannou is only bringing attention to mma by having sucess against the best boxers rn
i dont think anyone understands what is happening, its ngannou being a beast. he started so late in his life with martial arts not just boxing but mma too and he dominates both
Francis has solid boxing fundamentals and all it takes is one from him. Andy Ruiz has short reach that AJ could paint him from the outside. Francis has an 83” wingspan and knows how to use his jabs. In a fire fight, AJ is on the disadvantage side bc his chin isn’t that great. Francis is a tank. He can take 4 to give one. And all it takes is one, gents!! And at this point, Francis’ ability to define the odds should not be questioned.
@HellBlazerMNE07 Zhang is a real fighter. You criticize other boxers for doing fake fights against cans but Zhang is actually entertaining, has knockout power and doesn't duck anyone. Don't disrespect him like that.
It's just because of this silly war between extremist MMA fans and boxing fans, that has been exacerbated by Jake Paul bringing many UFC fighters and knocking them out. Also because boxers make much more money than MMA fighters, while these latters work as hard as the formers. You know, I used to bash on boxing fans who were talking sh*t about MMA, with so much arrogance, but now, more and more, I am noticing the exact opposite, MMA fans talking sh*t about boxing, just because "yeah bro, my martial art is more effective on the street bro, I would go double leg and choke you to death bro". Now these MMA fans sound like the bad guys. But they forget that Karma is a mad Prime Tyson that will eventually beat the sh*t out of you, one day UFC will make more money than boxing, and you will see a boxer who comes to UFC and after one year of intensive training with Jon Jones or GSP, will embarrass all the fighters because he is a prodigee. Then we will be back to square one with boxing fanboys saying "boxing killed MMA". Mark my words, it will happen someday, you will remember my comment.
francis's biggest advantage is that he is not a typical boxer and his opponents don't know how to read him. francis brings tension back to the heavyweight division. furthermore, when aj feels the power of francis, he will be terrified. francis is solid as a rock and does not budge.
If Francis wins I wouldn’t consider boxing destroyed. He was always a great striker the main reason I thought he wasn’t going to win was because to me it seems like so much harder to get used to such a limited form of fighting when you come from mma. You can’t use elbows, knees etc. And personally I would have a tough time getting adjusted to a new ruleset. Anyways that all to say that I wouldn’t consider boxing destroyed, it’s still an interesting sport to watch.
Agreed. Both sports are cool. Boxing is a super technical and dynamic sport. High level boxers use intricate head movement and footwork to an extent no other combat athletes do and that's super interesting to observe. MMA is interesting because it's extremely diverse and includes so many aspects of fighting making MMA fighters the most well rounded fighters
Boxing is gonna get revived cause I know a lot more people interested in Francis Ngannou now, for example this will get me to buy boxing ppvs now as well.
@@goblinmma same here, as far as I am concerned he's the underdog and I'd love to see him win. And if he's a tough contender and shakes the sport up a bit then other boxers are going to start boxing better as a consequence. Leading the sport to improve and be more fun to watch.
Ngannou’s MMA base is boxing, just like several of the more athletic post-2015 breed of MMA fighters. His wrestling, BJJ and Muay Thai are quite sub par. And this matters less in weight classes middleweight and above as it is boxing and wrestling that matter most for the bigger guys. He got by 95% of his UFC career with pure boxing. It helps that boxers, Tyson Fury aside, tend to be more athletic than Muay Thai, BJJ and TMA guys in heavier weight classes. Like wrestling, boxing gyms just make you a different animal compared to other combat sports, despite its one dimensional style. He wanted to be a boxer first and foremost, but went to MMA because of the lower barrier to entry. He has trained boxing for many years. That said, he fought a Fury who had taken him very lightly, and I would assume a more decisive victory for Fury in any rematch. Joshua knows that Francis has very decent technique and hands now, and will gameplan accordingly. Joshua was humiliated by Ruiz and Usyk, but I don't think it will happen in this match. Maybe 20% chance. If there is any weight class in boxing that MMA fighters could do well, it is heavyweight. It’s unlikely to happen in any other weight class though, as the skill level is much higher. For example, Connor is a much better boxer than Francis, but it didn't go so well for him (he did OK though). So although I don’t think Francis will beat AJ, even if he did I don’t think it would in any way kill boxing. Quite the opposite. Francis has already shown that you can become a UFC champion with pretty much pure boxing.
The big thing for me is that now Francis also had the experience of fighting 12 rounds with tyson fury. That's going to make him a lot more dangerous than his first boxing match
@@coreymcnulty5125 nope, it makes it look like Ngannou is the first MMA fighter with real boxing skills and power to rival anyone. Which is what we thought in MMA. Ngannou can become a bigger Boxing star than an MMA star, and earn more money, Dana fumbled the bag. He will capture the MMA audience and Boxing audience in his next Boxing fight.
@@davidagiel8130 If you think a guy who has never boxed before going over and making one of the best heavyweights in the world look bad and arguably winning dosent hurt the reputation of boxers that’s just insane
@@coreymcnulty5125 never boxed before? You don't need to be a professional boxer to box a professional if you are professionally trained. Obviously he has trained boxing. Also, the dude hits harder than anyone else, at HW he will always have an advantage in Power. Ngannou is a striker first, he isn't known for having a great ground game.
@@coreymcnulty5125 Excuse me, this is what you think about Boxers ? .. that they are trash ? Because if you think so we could have à long chat over Boxing Legends or the fact that Boxers deserves way more respect from the MMA community because of the dangerous aspect of Boxing : Brain Damage and/or death .. A few days ago, Kazuki Anaguchi lost to Tsutsumi in what was a Real War, but as the bout finished, Anaguchi was having physical problems--> he entered in a coma and is actually fighting for his life .. this is very common in Boxing, look at Prichard Colon History for example .. Boxers deserves respect wether you like the sport or not ..
Ngannou is evolving the sport. MMA fans will have to recognise PFL as legit once he starts fighting there and One will also have to be recognised. Fighters will have to unify all the belts
lol, they’re not boxing fans and twitter bears no resemblance to the real world. AJ will beat Nganou relatively comfortably and probably knock him out before round 8.
I have been very happy for Ngannou since he told the UFC to go to heII and he went out on his own. I want him to have as much success as possible. However, I didn't think he had a chance against Fury, and was shocked at the outcome. I think he has a chance against Joshua, but I still think Joshua should be a HUGE favorite. I'm glad to see Ngannou make huge money with these fights, but I don't think he's a real contender at the end of the day.
@@mxbcgrupoelite5551 mate ngannou should've gotten 2 more 10-8 rnds. There was another KD not scored and the illegal elbow was point deduction worthy. So fury would've had to win all 7 rnds to barely beat ngannou
@@oldadoggy5873 I agree but it Francis beats Joshua and then beats Fury in the rematch he takes Alex’s thunder there. Boxing is just so much more bigger than kickboxing
mma fans do that all the time. before the oliveira dariush fight nearly everyone in the comments was picking dariush to win, after the fight they all knew oliveira would win. it's very amusing.
I love both boxing and mma but if francis does put up a very competitive fight, the heavyweight division apart from Usyk will be torn to shreds. All the mma guys saying boxing will be finished hafta remember that while the heavyweight division is the biggest there are still many superstars in the lighter weight divisions so boxing gonna be just fine
I disagree. It doesn't ruin boxing if he wins, it makes Ngannou a unparalleled legend. I think he already is. His natural ring iq, his preternatural physical ability. If you take the same logic: he destroyed mma by starting training mma at 28 and becoming a champ in a few years. Your analysis totally disrespects the legend that is le predator.
It doesn’t even come close to killing boxing, that’s why MMA fighters are switching over to boxing, its biggest star ever Mcgregor, and now Ngannou is getting stupid money by the saudis to box. When a WWE wrestler beat the UFC heavyweight champ did it kill MMA? 😂 and let’s not forget the heavyweight division in UFC is a joke right now. Jones beating the guy that lost to Ngannou three years ago by the time they fight is a joke 😂
I’m tired of this silly narrative that “boxing is done” because ONE very special MMA fighter can box at a high level. Was baseball done when Bo Jackson and Deon Sanders were 2 sport athletes? Francis is a once in a lifetime athlete who also rose to champion in MMA in a relatively short amount of time. I don’t see Max Holloway calling out Canelo.
the thing is anyone with decent power knocks fury down he always gets knocked down but he gets back up i definitley know AJ does a number this hype job
He isn't a hype job, Ngannou is the real deal - Fury however.... His resume is being reviewed. Joshua to win, but if he don't respect Ngannou it won't end well.
I knew going into it that TF often gets knocked down, and didn't have the power to hurt FN. FN was never been wobbled by a puch. Tough to beat a guy like that in a sport that only allows punching.
You know AJ resume is better than furys? Fury has had 6 championship matches 3 against one guy, aj has had 13 championship matches 😂 aj is a far superior boxer to fury
@@meatman6015 Fury does have a weight advantage though and he is good at throwing his weight around which is how to gets the power he needs. Also Fury makes up for the low power with his Iron chin
Dude AJ is just another beast. Pd team boxing loves Francis now jaja i would love to watch him go at it with wilder and then take the belt once its freed next month by usyk and fury
The thing that people don’t understand is that this kind of thing can only happen in heavy weight classes because heavy weights are not that skilled . Deontay wilder is probably the least technically heavy weight of all time and has performed good. In heavy weight boxing it’s more about the power, that can separate u from others.
@@MMAChe. if Francis does win I don’t think it kills the sport but it might kill “heavy weight boxing” because on wilder again people forget wilder started at 22 years old and was a truck driver the time he learned boxing. In the weight classes of Terrence Crawford, canelo, Floyd, that is very rare well I mean manny pacquiao did but still.
@@MMAChe.But yet again, Boxing History is Huge and Muhammad Ali's competition was significantly x3 better than who Deontay fought his entire career .. his Resume is full of poor Journeymen except for a few of them such as Duhaupas 🇲🇫 , Hell, Wilder struggled against a very old Ortiz x2 before his Exceptional power saved him .. the HW division is one of the weakest if not the weakest but its popular names make up for it : Apart from loosing x 3 against Fury, he struggled against Ortiz x 2 was loosing on all cards and just lost against Parker who is the only good competition in his prime he faced .. he lost every time he faced someone Good and in his prime.. Ali defeated Frazier, Foreman, Bonavena and the latter was no élite compétition but far, Far ahead of nowadays HW that is for sure and not even close. This is not to speak bad about MMA, but HW Boxing is okey at best ; had Masvidal, Usman or Mcgregor faced Canelo Alvarez, it would have been a Severe Brain Damage .. the same way Canelo has no business in mma.
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@gcoffey223 I agree BUT if boxing reputation is all the line for you then so is mma. don't change up when things don't go your way if Francis losses then mma losses.
@gcoffey223 also for the record I thought Francis beating fury is a just goes to show how great Francis is not that boxing is a dead sport. I still want Francis to win.
@@Hurmspeedy i do think losing to Jake is more embarrassing but i genuinely don't think it will affect the sport either way. Jake Paul ran through these mma dudes and mma is no worse for it.
Maybe there is the need for a more modern advanced form of boxing,like a Muay Thai but for boxing only. Something that would fit the modern fighter more ,maybe incorporating elbows and clinch to train skills for MMA. Something like the Thriller Triad,but expanded.
2 points, fury did a full camp for Francis, he absolutely worked hard and thought he would steamroll him that's why he started like he did, but Fury is absolutely weak to the body, and is a weight bully, or at least he has been for 4 years. 2) Francis absolutely is a threat, but don't diminish what he did against fury, he absolutely won that on merit against a full camp fury.
What people fail to realize is that Ngannou:s side mission is MMA!! He always wanted to be boxing champ. And after the Fury fight he proved he can hang but if he actually beats Joshua he will get a shot as his dream which is to fight for the belt!
Jake Paul been fighting MMA welterweights when he's light-heavyweight, and people think MMA can't box. Glad Ngannou is proving people wrong, would love to see more cross-overs.
For me Joshua out box francis for 2 reason. Fury get a close decision not for the lack of skill but for the ego, didn't prepare the match and fight without preparation and study the opponent 2 Fury didn't have a single match of francis in boxe, and can't prepare for it, he don't know the style, but ngannou can watch hundreds fight of fury for preparing the fight. Joshua now can watxh the tape of the previous match and create a plan
tbh I believe francis was underestimated by tyson fury, I think his skills and hardwork weren't taken seriously but now I think Joshua has a good idea of what to do for Francis
Fury is NOT better than Joshua, he is a hugely overrated declining fighter. Watch what Usyk does to him in February. What is team MMA and why do you want to "destroy" boxing. I like both sports, is that ok? Fury and Wilder are both complete hype jobs who avoided everyone and made millions hyping and fighting each other. PS Ngannou beat Fury.
Ok but realistically why of all people would you doubt Ngannou? He doesn’t need elite skills to do any combat sport. He’s THE freak of nature. Bro is literally 270 with visible abs. And he has the skills he needs to. I don’t see how Aj survives tbh, I think he’s less skilled, chinnier, weaker, might have better cardio but I think Ngannou will pace himself better.
the real question is CAN Francis knockout Joshua? because there is no way in hell the judges will ever allow Francis a win on the scoreboards unless AJ is snoozing on the canvas.
Maybe a wake-up call. Francis was effectively switching stances in his first Pro boxing fight against Tyson Fury. He is gonna be better in his second boxing fight. How much better will Francis be in his second Pro boxing fight? How much better does he have to be? Can't wait.
Francis is a huge dude but i found it pretty shocking that he looked like a skinny guy standing next to Bill Goldberg in a photo from 4 years ago. And Goldberg is not even close to as big as he was in his prime in the very early 2000s.
I genuinely think that what this last year of boxing has shown is where the elite of the boxing division really is, and it is not with Wilder and Fury. They've collectively beaten nobody, outside of Fury beating a very past his prime Klitchko. I believe Joshua is going to walk through Ngannou and prove that Fury was never really all that. A 'great white hope' type figure. I love Ngannou, but I'm not willing to accept that boxing is fake because one top heavyweight lost to an MMA fighter. I think it just means that Fury was always fake.
@@Nevertheless196Styles make fights AJ style will be too hard for Fury, QJ in boxing will beat Francis but in a real life fight/MMA Francis will demolish AJ 😂
If francis wins hollywood is gonna come knocking ngannou bout to become a superstar of which the likes of the ufc has never seen and dana will have to keep watching
bro really out here speedrunning boxing
And the funniest part is right If ngannou wins i see a future where he fights fury twice before usyk gets to even fight him once if that happens boxing is just a fake sport at this point
@brendonwallace6640 THIS. If Ngannou pulls off the rocky miracle fury will pull out of the Usyk fight IMMEDIATELY.
@@brendonwallace6640AJ will put Francis over wwe style
Lol imo he is the lineal heavyweight champ after beating fury. I think he got robbed.
@@StrengthScholar0 how did you score it?
Many boxing fans actually love ngannou and hope ngannou to keep box to revive boxing
Mma fans pretend boxers hate mma when they really don't anymore
@@hiruyabebaw7140MMA fans sounding like some evil supervillains now, I watch and love both sports, so it’s very strange to see MMA fans have some weird malice towards boxing lol
@@swiftlessytvlogs5637 i guess it's kind of payback
@@hiruyabebaw7140 yeah definitely, boxing acted atrociously towards mma back in the day, so i guess this is all the mma fan’s way of getting even
I do like both but prefer mma and I can say it’s definitely both love and hate. Nobody wants there sport to seem like a joke; but many boxing fans think current boxing is a joke anyway and that Francis is a breath of fresh air. I do hope Francis runs through the heavyweight division because I like him and because it will force everyone to level there game up and evolve as a sport.
I like how Ngannou went from humiliating decision loss against Lewis to fighting boxing as idea.
You mean from undisputed, undefeated, UFC HW Champion to be both a top 3 HW MMA fighter and top 10 HW boxer. How embarassing.
He was mentally destroyed after the first stipe fight
Thats why he didnt do anything against lewis
@@sueyourself5413 the Lewis fight was humiliating because it was itself bad, without context of other Ngannou fights.
@@katatista i do not hate on Ngannou and do not say that he bad at fighting. But Lewis fight was still bad.
@@randomguy9940 I think that you need to grab a dictionary and look up the word humiliation.
It was his only unentertaining fight. The start of his comeback. And reminded very much of Adesanya vs. Romero. One to forget.
You all are seriously underestimating AJ
Exactly why AJ will win, just like how Francis was underestimated against fury
AJ doesn't have the highest fight IQ but he's quite well schooled and will have an amazing team around him to build a strong game plan.
Styles make fights and Ngannou is less well matched to AJ than he was Fury, in my opinion.
He wins dragging AJ into a brawl.
Looking forward to these athletes duking it out.
@@Lamborghini1YTFury also got dropped by a guy who weighed 205 pounds 😂
@@Lamborghini1YT Ruiz caught the top of AJ's head, which wrecked his equilibrium. I don't know many people who'd want to be hit clean by Ruiz either, he's got fast hands.
Fury took a lot of Wilder's best work well because he knows how to roll with the punches. It's the punch you don't see coming that hurts you.
Head movement has always been a big weakness for AJ in my eyes.
Whatever happens, I'm happy for Ngannou. He deserves some big pay days.
@@Lamborghini1YTBro Ruiz might not be that tall but he’s still a big dude with devastating power when he is in range. Trust me, nobody wants to be hit by Ruiz.
@@dwayne8762 Chris Arreola was 40 years old and took everything Ruiz had and never even got wobbled. Ruiz is not a big puncher
no lie he should've fought Wilder as his second match and get that name under his belt
he would knocked wilder from pillar to post he is to strong to powerful better boxing fundamentals better chin
Ngannou is saving boxing 🥊 Not destroying it 💣
Thank you
Nah it's already a sport that people view as illegitimate and crooked because of all the politics to get fights made and all the ducking. So a beginner knocking down a disputable best of a generation makes boxing look worse. No one can take that seriously.
Good first title defence.
I’m curious as to why you believe AJ isn’t 6’6?
Also, one reason I do believe AJ will fight Ngannou much better is that AJ is FAR more active and disciplined that Fury. Fury always gets massively out of shape and fights once every 2 years. AJ has been very active so I do think he will win comfortably. But Ngannou is dangerous. Also, AJ has fought in a lot of fights where he had an immense amount of pressure so I think he can handle it.
AJ and fury are the same height 😂 fury is the one that lies about his height not AJ 😂
Lookup AJ next to ksi. Maybe ksi is secretly 6'4
@@Jay77712 okay then also look at AJ next to wilder they was the same height 😂
@@thebigdogg2866ya Wilder is also way shorter than his listed height
@@Cr722a AJ is also the same height as Joe Joyce and Zhang they're all around the same height
If Ngannou beats AJ all its gonna do is bring more attention to mma not boxing
That's the issue unless Francis switches to boxing permanently but he's under contract at the PFL so he'll always be an mma fighter
@bloon170 he may be under contract but they can't make him fight. If he keeps getting lucrative boxing opportunities he's just gonna keep boxing. The money isn't comparable.
An Ngannou win makes a new HW era overnight and it would be a real life rocky story
I really dont think Ngannou is helping boxing. What boxing needs is superstars, but Ngannou is only bringing attention to mma by having sucess against the best boxers rn
i dont think anyone understands what is happening, its ngannou being a beast. he started so late in his life with martial arts not just boxing but mma too and he dominates both
Only you understand
Francis has solid boxing fundamentals and all it takes is one from him. Andy Ruiz has short reach that AJ could paint him from the outside. Francis has an 83” wingspan and knows how to use his jabs.
In a fire fight, AJ is on the disadvantage side bc his chin isn’t that great. Francis is a tank. He can take 4 to give one. And all it takes is one, gents!! And at this point, Francis’ ability to define the odds should not be questioned.
Guess not...
As a boxing fan, Ngannou is my favourite heavyweight currently and I hope to see him become a potential champion in the future.
Seriously! Your favourite heavyweight?
@@VCanisMajorisY Zheili Zhang can probably take all of them
@HellBlazerMNE07 well just wait til he fights AJ then
@HellBlazerMNE07 Zhang is a real fighter. You criticize other boxers for doing fake fights against cans but Zhang is actually entertaining, has knockout power and doesn't duck anyone. Don't disrespect him like that.
Jake Paul ruined MMA's image in boxing and Francis is uplifting it. Let's go, Francis!
I don't understand why Ngannou, being a very good boxer, kills the sport of boxing. If anything its fucking lit to watch
It's just because of this silly war between extremist MMA fans and boxing fans, that has been exacerbated by Jake Paul bringing many UFC fighters and knocking them out. Also because boxers make much more money than MMA fighters, while these latters work as hard as the formers.
You know, I used to bash on boxing fans who were talking sh*t about MMA, with so much arrogance, but now, more and more, I am noticing the exact opposite, MMA fans talking sh*t about boxing, just because "yeah bro, my martial art is more effective on the street bro, I would go double leg and choke you to death bro". Now these MMA fans sound like the bad guys.
But they forget that Karma is a mad Prime Tyson that will eventually beat the sh*t out of you, one day UFC will make more money than boxing, and you will see a boxer who comes to UFC and after one year of intensive training with Jon Jones or GSP, will embarrass all the fighters because he is a prodigee. Then we will be back to square one with boxing fanboys saying "boxing killed MMA". Mark my words, it will happen someday, you will remember my comment.
francis's biggest advantage is that he is not a typical boxer and his opponents don't know how to read him. francis brings tension back to the heavyweight division. furthermore, when aj feels the power of francis, he will be terrified. francis is solid as a rock and does not budge.
If Francis wins I wouldn’t consider boxing destroyed. He was always a great striker the main reason I thought he wasn’t going to win was because to me it seems like so much harder to get used to such a limited form of fighting when you come from mma. You can’t use elbows, knees etc. And personally I would have a tough time getting adjusted to a new ruleset. Anyways that all to say that I wouldn’t consider boxing destroyed, it’s still an interesting sport to watch.
Frantic started boxing before he found mma.
Agreed. Both sports are cool. Boxing is a super technical and dynamic sport. High level boxers use intricate head movement and footwork to an extent no other combat athletes do and that's super interesting to observe. MMA is interesting because it's extremely diverse and includes so many aspects of fighting making MMA fighters the most well rounded fighters
@@b.k.5667 you said it better than I could. Thanks man.
Boxing is gonna get revived cause I know a lot more people interested in Francis Ngannou now, for example this will get me to buy boxing ppvs now as well.
@@goblinmma same here, as far as I am concerned he's the underdog and I'd love to see him win. And if he's a tough contender and shakes the sport up a bit then other boxers are going to start boxing better as a consequence. Leading the sport to improve and be more fun to watch.
Ngannou’s MMA base is boxing, just like several of the more athletic post-2015 breed of MMA fighters. His wrestling, BJJ and Muay Thai are quite sub par. And this matters less in weight classes middleweight and above as it is boxing and wrestling that matter most for the bigger guys. He got by 95% of his UFC career with pure boxing. It helps that boxers, Tyson Fury aside, tend to be more athletic than Muay Thai, BJJ and TMA guys in heavier weight classes. Like wrestling, boxing gyms just make you a different animal compared to other combat sports, despite its one dimensional style.
He wanted to be a boxer first and foremost, but went to MMA because of the lower barrier to entry. He has trained boxing for many years. That said, he fought a Fury who had taken him very lightly, and I would assume a more decisive victory for Fury in any rematch. Joshua knows that Francis has very decent technique and hands now, and will gameplan accordingly. Joshua was humiliated by Ruiz and Usyk, but I don't think it will happen in this match. Maybe 20% chance.
If there is any weight class in boxing that MMA fighters could do well, it is heavyweight. It’s unlikely to happen in any other weight class though, as the skill level is much higher. For example, Connor is a much better boxer than Francis, but it didn't go so well for him (he did OK though). So although I don’t think Francis will beat AJ, even if he did I don’t think it would in any way kill boxing. Quite the opposite. Francis has already shown that you can become a UFC champion with pretty much pure boxing.
The big thing for me is that now Francis also had the experience of fighting 12 rounds with tyson fury. That's going to make him a lot more dangerous than his first boxing match
Kill Boxing? No, he will make it more popular
But it makes it look like boxers are trash
@@coreymcnulty5125 nope, it makes it look like Ngannou is the first MMA fighter with real boxing skills and power to rival anyone. Which is what we thought in MMA. Ngannou can become a bigger Boxing star than an MMA star, and earn more money, Dana fumbled the bag. He will capture the MMA audience and Boxing audience in his next Boxing fight.
@@davidagiel8130 If you think a guy who has never boxed before going over and making one of the best heavyweights in the world look bad and arguably winning dosent hurt the reputation of boxers that’s just insane
@@coreymcnulty5125 never boxed before? You don't need to be a professional boxer to box a professional if you are professionally trained. Obviously he has trained boxing. Also, the dude hits harder than anyone else, at HW he will always have an advantage in Power. Ngannou is a striker first, he isn't known for having a great ground game.
@@coreymcnulty5125 Excuse me, this is what you think about Boxers ? .. that they are trash ? Because if you think so we could have à long chat over Boxing Legends or the fact that Boxers deserves way more respect from the MMA community because of the dangerous aspect of Boxing : Brain Damage and/or death ..
A few days ago, Kazuki Anaguchi lost to Tsutsumi in what was a Real War, but as the bout finished, Anaguchi was having physical problems--> he entered in a coma and is actually fighting for his life .. this is very common in Boxing, look at Prichard Colon History for example .. Boxers deserves respect wether you like the sport or not ..
Boxer bros it's never been more over
It’s gonna be easy work
Ngannou is evolving the sport. MMA fans will have to recognise PFL as legit once he starts fighting there and One will also have to be recognised. Fighters will have to unify all the belts
Ngannou is killing boxing like Pereira is killing MMA
Bruh it won't kill boxing if it happens but it won't happen aj stops francis
Leon vs Belal is definitely more hype than this!
LOL!
amir*
Sarcasm
A lot of Boxing fans(on Twitter at least) have no hope in AJ winning and that's hella depressing
😂 AJ beats him comfortably
That's a lie 😂
lol, they’re not boxing fans and twitter bears no resemblance to the real world. AJ will beat Nganou relatively comfortably and probably knock him out before round 8.
Why,,?
Y’all can’t except that Francis is a good Boxer,,, I don’t get it…
Get ready for the Fumble in the Jungle lol LFG Francis!!
I have been very happy for Ngannou since he told the UFC to go to heII and he went out on his own. I want him to have as much success as possible. However, I didn't think he had a chance against Fury, and was shocked at the outcome. I think he has a chance against Joshua, but I still think Joshua should be a HUGE favorite. I'm glad to see Ngannou make huge money with these fights, but I don't think he's a real contender at the end of the day.
This is crazy. Ngannou could kill all of hw boxing legacy since the post Lennox era
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@@mxbcgrupoelite5551 mate ngannou should've gotten 2 more 10-8 rnds. There was another KD not scored and the illegal elbow was point deduction worthy. So fury would've had to win all 7 rnds to barely beat ngannou
@@mxbcgrupoelite5551 Yeah they robbed Francis. He beat Fury's ass that's why he is being rewarded the AJ fight with a massive pay day.
Francis has the chance to make combat sport’s history. Being the best combat sports competitor of all time
@@oldadoggy5873 I agree but it Francis beats Joshua and then beats Fury in the rematch he takes Alex’s thunder there. Boxing is just so much more bigger than kickboxing
mma fans do that all the time. before the oliveira dariush fight nearly everyone in the comments was picking dariush to win, after the fight they all knew oliveira would win. it's very amusing.
I love both boxing and mma but if francis does put up a very competitive fight, the heavyweight division apart from Usyk will be torn to shreds. All the mma guys saying boxing will be finished hafta remember that while the heavyweight division is the biggest there are still many superstars in the lighter weight divisions so boxing gonna be just fine
Plot twist. It's not gonna kill boxing
I disagree. It doesn't ruin boxing if he wins, it makes Ngannou a unparalleled legend. I think he already is. His natural ring iq, his preternatural physical ability. If you take the same logic: he destroyed mma by starting training mma at 28 and becoming a champ in a few years. Your analysis totally disrespects the legend that is le predator.
It doesn’t even come close to killing boxing, that’s why MMA fighters are switching over to boxing, its biggest star ever Mcgregor, and now Ngannou is getting stupid money by the saudis to box. When a WWE wrestler beat the UFC heavyweight champ did it kill MMA? 😂 and let’s not forget the heavyweight division in UFC is a joke right now. Jones beating the guy that lost to Ngannou three years ago by the time they fight is a joke 😂
I’m tired of this silly narrative that “boxing is done” because ONE very special MMA fighter can box at a high level. Was baseball done when Bo Jackson and Deon Sanders were 2 sport athletes? Francis is a once in a lifetime athlete who also rose to champion in MMA in a relatively short amount of time. I don’t see Max Holloway calling out Canelo.
'AJ is a Olympic boxer, the only lost he has is against another Olympic boxer. Technically I think AJ is much better than Fury
Man. No one could have guessed francis would have fought so close. But they will take hime serious now!!!!
Don't let Furys poor performance fool you. AJ is going to annihilate Ngannou. It won't be close.
the thing is anyone with decent power knocks fury down he always gets knocked down but he gets back up i definitley know AJ does a number this hype job
He isn't a hype job, Ngannou is the real deal - Fury however....
His resume is being reviewed.
Joshua to win, but if he don't respect Ngannou it won't end well.
I knew going into it that TF often gets knocked down, and didn't have the power to hurt FN. FN was never been wobbled by a puch. Tough to beat a guy like that in a sport that only allows punching.
“Francis’ biggest advantage was that nobody thought he had a shot…” is terrific analysis
Destroy the Sport of Boxing 🥊!???
Because he’s a good Boxer? Fighter,?
If it’s fake go scrap with a good Boxer, and see how that works out for you….
I dont get how it ruins boxing
If anything it would do the other way around
You know AJ resume is better than furys? Fury has had 6 championship matches 3 against one guy, aj has had 13 championship matches 😂 aj is a far superior boxer to fury
This definitely aged well, LMFAO
Ngannou has single handedly defended the honor of MMA Boxing.
Professional Boxing 🥊 all day Francis will get schooled by AJ
People ignore the fact that Fury isnt a hard puncher.
All heavyweights are hard punchers to an extent.
@@Chiefteeth1well yeah but fury is on the weaker end still
@@meatman6015 Fury makes up for the lack of power with PERFECT technique.
@@i_GiveFRUITS wrong
@@meatman6015 Fury does have a weight advantage though and he is good at throwing his weight around which is how to gets the power he needs. Also Fury makes up for the low power with his Iron chin
Dude AJ is just another beast. Pd team boxing loves Francis now jaja i would love to watch him go at it with wilder and then take the belt once its freed next month by usyk and fury
The thing that people don’t understand is that this kind of thing can only happen in heavy weight classes because heavy weights are not that skilled . Deontay wilder is probably the least technically heavy weight of all time and has performed good. In heavy weight boxing it’s more about the power, that can separate u from others.
And saying Wilder performed well is a massive understatement, he tied Muhammad Ali's record for number of title defenses
@@MMAChe. if Francis does win I don’t think it kills the sport but it might kill “heavy weight boxing” because on wilder again people forget wilder started at 22 years old and was a truck driver the time he learned boxing. In the weight classes of Terrence Crawford, canelo, Floyd, that is very rare well I mean manny pacquiao did but still.
@@MMAChe.But yet again, Boxing History is Huge and Muhammad Ali's competition was significantly x3 better than who Deontay fought his entire career .. his Resume is full of poor Journeymen except for a few of them such as Duhaupas 🇲🇫 , Hell, Wilder struggled against a very old Ortiz x2 before his Exceptional power saved him .. the HW division is one of the weakest if not the weakest but its popular names make up for it : Apart from loosing x 3 against Fury, he struggled against Ortiz x 2 was loosing on all cards and just lost against Parker who is the only good competition in his prime he faced .. he lost every time he faced someone Good and in his prime..
Ali defeated Frazier, Foreman, Bonavena and the latter was no élite compétition but far, Far ahead of nowadays HW that is for sure and not even close.
This is not to speak bad about MMA, but HW Boxing is okey at best ; had Masvidal, Usman or Mcgregor faced Canelo Alvarez, it would have been a Severe Brain Damage .. the same way Canelo has no business in mma.
He actually making it exiciting. And also boxing is a foundation martial art its not gonna die no matter what.
In every normal situation monopolies are bad, but not in the fight business. Any damage to UFC is damage to the sport of MMA.
Can you make more videos please?
I think the relationship between me and Ian Gary's wife has reached a tough point in our lives and your content has been a good way to lighten up the mood for me these past months.
If Francis losses you better keep the same energy. If this is mma vs boxing it's mma vs boxing I don't want to hear "if it was in the octagon..."
But, if it was in the octagon....
@gcoffey223 I agree BUT if boxing reputation is all the line for you then so is mma. don't change up when things don't go your way if Francis losses then mma losses.
@gcoffey223 also for the record I thought Francis beating fury is a just goes to show how great Francis is not that boxing is a dead sport. I still want Francis to win.
I think the difference is gonna be the power Joshua is gonna have compared to fury I think a knockout is high in this fight
You been on my feed for a year bro....so I finally subscribed
If Ngannou beats Aj, would that be as bad for boxing as Jake Paul beating (insert MMA fighter here) for mma?
Fr jake started fighting 5 years ago and knocked out and beat many ufc fighters so losing to Jake is way worse
@@Hurmspeedy i do think losing to Jake is more embarrassing but i genuinely don't think it will affect the sport either way. Jake Paul ran through these mma dudes and mma is no worse for it.
It just shows boxing gets way more money than MMA. Could see a lot of MMA strikers leave for the real money
“Aj is listed at 6’6”. That is horeseshit. He’s no taller than 6’5.5.”😂😂😂 I’m dead
Alex Pereira killed MMA, convince me otherwise.
All hail lord Danis! Take it easy my nigga
Maybe there is the need for a more modern advanced form of boxing,like a Muay Thai but for boxing only. Something that would fit the modern fighter more ,maybe incorporating elbows and clinch to train skills for MMA. Something like the Thriller Triad,but expanded.
Thats ironic, boxing died decades ago
Crawford beats volk by 20 second homicide boxing will never die it is the far more brutal sport in terms of punishment
Be wonderful to see him fold another heavyweight champ
2 points, fury did a full camp for Francis, he absolutely worked hard and thought he would steamroll him that's why he started like he did, but Fury is absolutely weak to the body, and is a weight bully, or at least he has been for 4 years. 2) Francis absolutely is a threat, but don't diminish what he did against fury, he absolutely won that on merit against a full camp fury.
Absolutely agree.
AJ's plan will be: just jab if I can't knock him out. That's what everyone will do fighting Francis
Judges are prolly gonna give the decision to Joshua anyways, or a 25 second countdown while trying to pick Joshie up, or both 😂😂
What people fail to realize is that Ngannou:s side mission is MMA!! He always wanted to be boxing champ. And after the Fury fight he proved he can hang but if he actually beats Joshua he will get a shot as his dream which is to fight for the belt!
Jake Paul been fighting MMA welterweights when he's light-heavyweight, and people think MMA can't box. Glad Ngannou is proving people wrong, would love to see more cross-overs.
Did WWE kill MMA? 😂
Please stop running mouth about who will destroy MMA or Boxing .Joshua as nganou can win even though Aj has experience more than Francis in Boxing .
For me Joshua out box francis for 2 reason.
Fury get a close decision not for the lack of skill but for the ego, didn't prepare the match and fight without preparation and study the opponent
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Fury didn't have a single match of francis in boxe, and can't prepare for it, he don't know the style, but ngannou can watch hundreds fight of fury for preparing the fight. Joshua now can watxh the tape of the previous match and create a plan
tbh I believe francis was underestimated by tyson fury, I think his skills and hardwork weren't taken seriously but now I think Joshua has a good idea of what to do for Francis
Fury is NOT better than Joshua, he is a hugely overrated declining fighter. Watch what Usyk does to him in February. What is team MMA and why do you want to "destroy" boxing. I like both sports, is that ok? Fury and Wilder are both complete hype jobs who avoided everyone and made millions hyping and fighting each other. PS Ngannou beat Fury.
Ok but realistically why of all people would you doubt Ngannou? He doesn’t need elite skills to do any combat sport. He’s THE freak of nature. Bro is literally 270 with visible abs. And he has the skills he needs to. I don’t see how Aj survives tbh, I think he’s less skilled, chinnier, weaker, might have better cardio but I think Ngannou will pace himself better.
The big question is who has the juiciest forearms 😂
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Keep it real bro. Ngannou beating the best boxers dosen't affect the sport of boxing. It just says that Ngannou is a great fighter.
the real question is CAN Francis knockout Joshua? because there is no way in hell the judges will ever allow Francis a win on the scoreboards unless AJ is snoozing on the canvas.
AJ will stop Francis
Anothony Joshua will put himself back in title contention if the fight happens and wins. He will win .
Aj had Francis sleep for 8 minutes 😂 he gets obliterated by any high tiers taking it serious
U didn't watch the video did u...
As long as there are people breathing through their mouths there'll be boxing
Your comment that boxing is fake made me laugh. Tell all the boxers who got KO'ed by Tyson it was fake
I like aj and Francis, I'm happy for whoever wins.
Maybe a wake-up call. Francis was effectively switching stances in his first Pro boxing fight against Tyson Fury.
He is gonna be better in his second boxing fight. How much better will Francis be in his second Pro boxing fight? How much better does he have to be?
Can't wait.
Francis is a huge dude but i found it pretty shocking that he looked like a skinny guy standing next to Bill Goldberg in a photo from 4 years ago. And Goldberg is not even close to as big as he was in his prime in the very early 2000s.
I genuinely think that what this last year of boxing has shown is where the elite of the boxing division really is, and it is not with Wilder and Fury. They've collectively beaten nobody, outside of Fury beating a very past his prime Klitchko. I believe Joshua is going to walk through Ngannou and prove that Fury was never really all that. A 'great white hope' type figure.
I love Ngannou, but I'm not willing to accept that boxing is fake because one top heavyweight lost to an MMA fighter. I think it just means that Fury was always fake.
Boxing won't be dead if he wins. It will have it's biggest star, having taken him from mma.
Ngannou is an actual workhorse now , UFC heavyweights are lucky he's not there anymore
The real upset comes when Amir and Leon dwarfs Ngannou and AJ in numbers
Not even Tyson fury’s elbow fazed Ngannou
Any% heavy weight world champ speedrun
AJ has no power compared to his muscle mass.
Just like Paulo Costa.
Aj is better than fury. Fury’s body is broken and he was in active this fight won’t be close and he was also bigger than fury
aj is nowhere near fury he lost to ruiz and usyk and he has a very low fight iq
@@Nevertheless196clearly you don’t want boxing
@@Nevertheless196Styles make fights AJ style will be too hard for Fury, QJ in boxing will beat Francis but in a real life fight/MMA Francis will demolish AJ 😂
Saying that boxing is finished if francis wins is absolutely 100 percent backwards.
Nah bro you're wrong. I was 100% sure Ngannou can win. All my buddies thought it too!
If francis wins hollywood is gonna come knocking ngannou bout to become a superstar of which the likes of the ufc has never seen and dana will have to keep watching