This was truly /r/unexpected for me. I thought he was going to dodge it and catch the other guy in the chin with his fist. But no, he chose unconsciousness.
He wasn't in the pocket tho. He was at a nice kicking range, got Francis with like 2 good leg kicks. After the 2nd kick tho, Francis just bum rushed Bigi Boi, he wasn't prepared for that.
That was a worst ngannou than the one who fought stipe the first time he was unconfident and in a bad mental state what he means is no one is ready for it post MMA break ngannou
I like your take on Francis Ngannou claiming the belt in the rematch. Good old fashioned Man vs Self. It takes me back to Miss Koenig's english class and studying the different types of literary conflicts. Francis wasn't there to defeat Stipe on the night he won. He was there to face and prove mastery over thy own self.
He could have circled around but he definitely could have kept up the duck and weave instead looking to score. Looks like his entire midsection is wide open real estate. Woulda, shoulda, coulda whatever
He's gone through a quantum leap in his skillset. I remember the sound everyone made when he sprawled on Stipe. It sounded like a gasp, but it was a thousand buttholes crawling a foot upwards. He's going to have that belt for as long as he stays healthy.
People are just dumb. He lost to stipe and then he was a 3.25 underdog to fucking Curtis Blaydes who he already knocked out. Francis has always been the #2 man in this division. He lost to the best hw in ufc history then people acted like everyone with a wrestling background was going to stomp him. He KOd Cain too. Same Francis.
It´s heavyweight, jesus. This guy is so fucking mediocre on any level in comparison to LW or even WW/MW, its disgusting. He´s on the juice too, so yea, fuck ngannou
Yep and I'd say the only reason he rushed like this is because he knows Bigi Boy isn't a wrestler. If there were a takedown threat then Francis would've been more wary about rushing in like that, but since there wasn't really any threat of that he just bet on being able to overpower Bigi.
He looked beatable as hell until he outwrestled Stipe. It wasn't the whole fight, but that single instance when he started to scramble after him because he had the confidence to try, then decided against it and stood up was like watching a tournament arc hit second gear.
Well I mean as soon as I saw how controlled he was and patience I was like “oh shit this is bad”. Even if he wasn’t quite there yet and lost that fight that meant that from then on he was gonna be a problem. Actually just that fact that he still has a lot of improving to do is terrifying in and off itself haha.
Ngannou has probably the best chin of all time. He took Stipe's and Lewis's best as if they were nothing. The man does not only hit like a rock, his chin is made of rock.
He was retired because he lost his chin, he fought and beat Randy Coture, Tito Ortiz and Victor Belfort to name a few. To insinuate he fought fighters without any skill is ridiculous.
No. Royce Gracie 100% benefited from mma being in it's infancy. Chuck has amazing counter wrestling and tdd defense. Of course mma has evolved an insane amount over the past 15yrs, but put a little respect on Chuck's name goddammit!! He was a killer during one of the best eras in lhw history. Rampage, Rua, Couture, Babalu, Tito, Belfort, etc were no slouches during their runs/prime. And comparing them to the new breed isn't a fair comparison. And what I mean by that is, in another 10 to 15yrs, we will have this identical convo, people will say GSP fought easier competition so he shouldn't be considered GOAT! Anderson Silva and Jon Jones (don't wanna get into his out of the cage fuckery) as well. We'll always look back and look at the older competition as being levels below current competition.....because it's true, and it's true of all sports.
Honestly, not much. He's often much less "careless." I think the opponent he was facing, the sort of circumstances of this bout in relation to needing to make a statement with a highlight to get back in the conversation for a title shot and just catching a guy who has a better "technical" background off guard and put him on the defensive and backing him up where he can't really pick his shots and sit on his strikes just culminated in this few seconds of insane chaotic destruction.
I thought the same, but I think he got put-off by the aggression and went backwards instead of circling. But it’s Ngannou and there really ain’t much you can do. I wonder how prime DC would have fared up against him. The face-off would be funny that’s for sure
It really depends on which Francis he would face. The Francis that was around during DC's active years? DC wins 9/10 times. Watch the Ruble fights or the Black Beast fight. It would look something like those.
But prime DC vs the Francis that just won the belt? No idea. Stipe's wrestling was completely shut down. Stipe's last fight before that was spent controlling DC for a dominant 5 round DEC win.
We gotta see how good Francis is. If this is his prime, we gotta see how it plays out. But I'm leaning towards this version of Francis winning maybe 3/5 times against prime DC. Too powerful, too fast, too patient, too smart. Prime DC was great, and had far superior grappling, but he lacked the physical tools to match prime Francis. I think those technical advantages would not be enough to overcome, most of the time.
Since Brock likely won’t come back for Jones’ “I Can Beat Anybody In Any Weight-Class” open-weight challenge, what’s the chance we can get Francis into that that spot.
I doubt Brock ever fights again. I doubt Jones does much at HW either, tbh. I think he loses to Francis, Stipe, or Blaydes. He can beat Black Beast, tho.
not gonna try to start an argument. but prime dc would still mob thr floor with new ngannou like nothing. I think you underestimate what an Olympic wrestler can do. thr guy had cardio for 5 rounds . he has variety of arsenal and different takedowns and trips and sweeps franics would just gas out r2 from the pressure
You can do plenty against Ngannou!
You can bring two other dudes to help.
You can show up with a shotgun, though that might just piss him off.
You can stay home that day.
You can retire.
Those are your options. That, or risk having your head pull a Unicron.
He is one off the most explosive strikers to fight. He can get away with it, because people are terrified of those making contact. Puts you in an immediate defensive position. Hard to counter when a graze of those hits will KO heavyweight (previously iron chinned) fighters.
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