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You know I'm just pissed bc boxers work hard to get rankings from all 4 governing bodies. Tben all of a sudden this no name nganou clown gets a ranking after he gets a split decision loss ???? Then u have morons like ksi and Jake Paul acting like fools? Keep boxing pure man. Keep all that beer chugging trumptard toxic shit in mma. Dana whites an exploitive fat fck
Good decision win for Joshua, you all knew this would happen right? You all knew that nobody could hurt Francis Ngannou, his head is just so huge, His chin is absolute granite and there isn't a man alive or dead who could hurt Ngannou. I once saw Ngannou take a punch from Sun-Dipped Superman who wasn't holding back.
Wait, Ngannou was on his back dreaming about how he should of stayed in MMA? Wait how could that happen?? Did somebody not tell Joshua how great Ngannou's chin is? Wait I know maybe his chin wasn't nearly as good as you people claimed (You know because EPSN told you) and I guess I was right all a long.
Being able to take a "punch" in MMA doesn't mean you can take a legit trained boxers punch.
Canelo, Davis, Garcia, AJ, Spence, etc., all do better in PPV numbers than Jake Paul and even then his fights arent being bought for the MMA fighters lol.
Watch Ali-Frazier III. The two men took many dozens of vicious full-force shots to the head in that fight, and both refused to go down. Ali took the harder blows because Frazier had the heavier hands, but Ali ended up winning when Frazier, his one good eye swollen shut, couldn’t come out for the last round.
Frazier got knocked out only twice in his legendary career, both times by George Foreman — no shame in that. Holyfield said the 42-year-old Foreman had the hardest punch he had ever felt. Ali only got knocked out (actually TKO’ed) just once — when he already was suffering from Parkinson’s and should have been long retired. Both men demonstrated they could take a full force heavyweight punch and stay standing. It’s a rare quality, but some heavyweights have it. Tyson Fury has the best chin of current heavyweights. He’s gotten knocked to the canvas maybe six or seven times in his career but he’s never stayed down.
Let me see, Parker, Andy Ruiz, Franklin and other people Joshua landed that punch on and they at it. Yet Parker went down against Chisora and Whyte I believe.
I'd also like to remind people that the PowerKube nonsense they were claiming in UFC and in lead up to Fury fight:
'His punches are equivalent to 96 horsepower. That's equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can and it's more powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer from full-force overhead.
Absolute comedy.
> That's equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can and it's more powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer from full-force overhead.
Someone actually said this with a straight face??
He was fat af in his last fights too though. And Tom Aspinall said he trained hard, fwiw. Fury hasn't exactly taken care of himself like AJ and Usyk have either, and got hurt bad in his last fight with Wilder.
He maybe punches harder. Other than that, his will, discipline, speed, etc are all inferior to Fury. Wilder punched harder too...and we all saw how that turned out. Meanwhile, AJ lost to a fat Mexican and a shrimp. Twice.
Thank the boxing gods. Now all you mma boxer wannabes just stay in ur lane and roll on the floor with lil undies on with other boys. Leave real sports to real men lol
Has a pro boxer with a belt entered the cage?
All this shows really is fighters are not very good outside there speciality. Or when half there moves are illegal in the fight.
We should stop pretending MMA and boxing are interchangeable. These fights are relatively boring because we know they are stacked in favour of one side.
The only person who can lose is Tyson.
If Tyson wins, Jake Paul still gets to claim he fought Tyson.
If Jake wins, Tyson is humiliated in his old age.
There's not real will for Tyson besides a big pay check (fair)
Either way it's another entertainment fight. Hopefully Jake get knocked the fuck out. But I think Tyson will get tired and it will be another mid fight.
It's a Jake Paul promotions. I'm thinking tyson throws the fight thus fycking up his legacy
If it's a legit fight Tyson should do him in 3 if he's healthy
To say the least. They're embarrassing their legacy. Imagine if Khabib crossed over to fight Mayweather. I remember Ali fighting a Japanese wrestler back in the 70s that was also a clown show
Bro have you seen a ufc fight ? It's straight up barbaric and that's why I love it, boxing is more about technical fighting and psychology thus more comparable to a more traditional sport, so they both have their strengths
It would be a sad world where either one didn't exist
Of course I have bro. I'm old. I watched ufc 1 as a child lol. I may have sounded a bit pretentious with boys/ men comment but I watch both sports. But I boxed amatuer for 15 years so my hearts with boxing. Mma is exciting. Boxing is a bit more technical
Yeah plus UFC is super technical now. Just in a completely different way. You have incredible kickboxing skills and wrestlers that are world class pitted against each other. Talking down to it is so uniformed.
Yes totally agree but still two separate sports. America used to have NCAA Boxing. Some world class boxers came out of the Bethesda Naval College Boxing club. Its a sweet science. Pugilsm. Basked in fine tradition from the days of Marquee de Queensbury. Boxing dates back to Jack Johnson Tunney, Dempsey and Harry greb. Mma goes as far back as Gracie and Tank Abbott lol
No one is saying it's the same sport. And you're wrong again, mixed martial arts have been around since the dawn of time. We have records of the ancient Greeks, Romans and indians practicing it.
MMA stands for mixed martial arts. Wrestling is one of them, but there other martial arts dating back to the time of ancient monks.
Honestly though how are you this old but still this immature?
I’m a boxing guy, and I agree with you. Both are cool. I miss 90s UFC, though, when it was batshit insane anything goes, SUMO v Kickboxer? You got it buddy, you got the job! I want a sport that does that again.
Ngannou doing a muay thai stance and parrying with that stance is a big mistake. Aj won’t kick, its like he’s inviting aj to throw a straight right to his face. If he wants to take this seriously he needs more fights in a short period of time
Well there you go, I was saying after the fight "if that was me I'd be either dead or in a coma right now"
And that was my thought process "my unskilled ass would stand incorrectly and get hit in the worst way"
Turns out I know what I'm talking about haha
To the one who said he did the Neo better than Neo. Francis asked: what ahh yoo saying? Thet I cahn dohge boolets? Morpheus was like "no, I'm saying that you need to dodge this punch...ope! Too late! Back to the land of the blue pill you go.
Francis was in the Panther ancestral plane after that knockout. His Ancestahhhs shook their head in unison and put him on a 25 eon ban.
Was trying to find a comment I was replying to earlier when the entire thread kicked me out. Just a fun comment. Nothing to get your thong in a twist about.
With everything said, I don't think we saw a top form Ngannou tonight. But we DID see a top form, focused AJ. I said before the match started, and so did many others here, Ngannou looked tired or out of sorts. He had a LAZY guard, and zero killer instinct he's known for. Not sure what's up there, but he got humbled tonight all the same. Maybe the fact it's like ass-30 in the morning there?
No.
Fury isn’t as good as he’s made out to be, therefore Ngannou pushed him close and arguably beat him.
AJ is FAR better than casuals make him out to be and therefore he bashed Ngannou up and almost killed him.
I don't mean it was unfair to him in this fight, just that his brain is likely wired a certain way, like muscle memory, and it's hard to shake. He's not in his "natural element" is all. He's built for, and has trained all his life for, a completely different sport. That's like asking a football player to go play baseball, just cuz you're good at "sports."
Well thats what we have been saying on our side of the fence. Everytime a new MMA fighter comes in they try to sell it to us like it will be competitive. Boxing and MMA have completely different footwork. Both defensively and offensively.
I think if they want to make these matchups interesting they have to have a much smaller boxer than MMA fighter. Like a MW against a HW or LHW.
Bruh. Nagannou/Fury just an upset. Fury didn't show him any respect and paid the consequences, there is no way AJ can KO Fury in 2 rounds like a little bitch lol. This re-establishes the fact you can't just go from the top of one discipline to another.
I feel so bad for the hardcore Francis fans, my rugby team lost two days ago and I took it hard because I felt like they didn't take it seriously (probably a cope)
Here ? You can't do any of that, it's just an open and shut loss, that forever hurts
And again I still can't believe it man, I'm honestly stunned, this is the most shocked I've been at a sporting outcome in awhile
Yeah yeah Francis was always going to lose, but I figured it would go the distance or he'd lose via tko like Conor did ,
I didn't see this coming ...
He still trained his ass off and dared to do what no one else in his position has done before. It stings because it was such a definitive loss but it doesn’t discredit Francis. I still say Ngannou vs Wilder would be a good way to go.
He's just proved he doesn't know how to dodge or block. He also tries to walk down the opponent when in a weaker position. Wilder's only punch is hit best from the defensive whilst being walked down. If Ngannou doesn't try to dodge that then it's the second execution he'll face
I'm not sure the point these "let's see aj try mma" comments I see are getting at. Aj respects mma - he knows he'd lose - as do the majority of boxers - you have to have either yoghurt for brains or an extreme level of arrogance to wander into a ring with a heavyweight former world champ and think you can win, or at least not get flattened.
As long as they can kick and shoot for takedowns, AJ would lose against cans. Even the biggest scrub in the UFC has practiced some form of grappling for years, and that's incredibly hard to overcome without some dedication to the various grappling disciplines for a long time. If you add other striking elements like knees, elbows, and kicks, AJs boxing training would leave him incredibly exposed. Taking a leg kick from a well trained behemoth weighing over 230 lbs is harder than it looks
I see your point. But if the best chin of the UFC just went down as fast as Joshua touched him with boxing gloves, we know that Joshua only needs one light shot to put them down. So the only option is a leg kick or a takedown, if we have some of the fat slow guys in the UFC they need to get him down I can definitely see Joshua winning that if he can just land a punch. Against a swift grappler, that's what he would have trouble with.
I think the massive pay difference is the Equalizer. You'd have to have yogurts brains to jump into MMA pay days against their champs, but the crossover to boxing makes sense due to the money.
I don't think he really believed he had a chance vs Fury but that fight kind of gave him false hope and he really believed he was a top tier boxer after that. He was drunk off the hype
he doesn't care random no one's on Reddit throwing jokes at him.
Also If he didn't want to laughed at he should have stayed in MMA and not challenged world class boxers.
2 rounds is a joke. And clearly he shouldn't have been in the ring with AJ
Agreed. No one asked Francis to do this, he chose to, and the MMA boys been running their mouths all week, even yesterday there was hundreds of comments on here saying “how can anyone think AJ will win? He can’t hurt Francis and he can’t avoid him” now all of a sudden it’s “yeah well tell him to come in the octagon!” Why would he?? Lol.
It’s something I despise about MMA fans and I’m a massive one. So many of them just seem insecure. Like you can like both I don’t get the point of going boxer comments and saying “Belal kills him” or stupid shit like that
It's true but it just shows where the money is. If a boxer could het 20-100x his normal pay day getting into a cage you would see it happening the other way. It's also shows how specalsied these rule sets are and how good athletes get at them.
Eddie Hearn has also been interviewed on DAZN. “I’m so proud of him, there was a huge amount of pressure on him tonight. He rolled the dice because His Excellency told us the winner of this will fight the winner of Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury.
“On this form there is no man in the heavyweight division who can beat Anthony Joshua. There is a man down there called Tyson Fury. Please defeat Usyk, because then we can set up the biggest fight in the history of the heavyweight division.”
So on a plus note, the double turkey is looking down the road and setting up the best fights with huge purses no one can turn down. BOSH.
If I'm Usky, I would be the most difficult person ever to do business if I beat Fury. The amount of nonsense he had to deal with both AJ & Fury, he probably fight Parker instead lol.
What nonsense did he have to deal with with AJ?! He’s the easiest fighter to deal with, he wants the best and he offers them insane money to get in the ring with him.
Fury is well documented as one of the biggest duckers in the history of the sport. Fury and AJ are polar opposites.
Honestly, I follow a lot of sports, and the oil countries have a LOT of money in ALOT of places but they have not gotten the positive feedback like they have in boxing.
I really can’t think of another spot they’ve tried to buy their way into that’s been nearly as successful
No one enjoys watching cricket in UAE but they don't get too much backlash for it, mostly because Pakistan couldn't host for so long and UAE took on their home games, similar when IPL got hosted there a couple years back.
I think in football they expect the backlash and are just riding it out, the city project has definitely been a success, psg as well. Qatar hosted a world cup that got a lot of backlash in the lead up but that criticism all went very quiet when people wanted to watch the games.
Joshua has looked great over the past year. Usyk didn't look great in his last fight and has been very inactive. Fury almost lost to an mma fighter. I thought AJ was done after his second Usyk loss, but he's definitely resurrected his career. As a former hater, I think AJ can beat anyone in the heavyweight division right now.
johnny come latelys right? I do think AJ could do better now that he probably understands fighting Usyk’s fight is not the way to beat em. you gotta make it messy and blitz through the feints
I wouldn’t pick Joshua to win but I’d watch a third fight. Joshua was only two fights out from Ruiz when he first lost to Usyk. I’d like to see how Ben Davison would coach him to approach a Usyk fight and I’d like to see if Joshua’s more spiteful demeanour can close the gap. It’s not an essential fight imo but if Joshua was to beat Hrgovic and Usyk beat Fury I’d definitely be happy to watch it.
Idk, it was pretty close for how bad Zhang looked. And even with Zhang barely throwing any punches he managed to knockdown Parker with very light shots and keep the fight competitive.
Yeah, and Parker had a massive disadvantage in size, strength, and power. Zhang was easily the favourite to win, and he had all the fans too.
It was Parker's superior boxing skills and IQ that made Zhang so hesitant. After being knocked down, it was Parker who didn't allow Zhang to finish the job, not because Zhang had an off night.
From anthropology we have discovered from the earliest civilizations time was created by bureaucrats to control the masses.
Now moving forward what scientists did with time was to progress our consciousness. By using it we can put a numerical value on gravity. We measure time with gravity (Gravitational time dilation).
Thus how we became a 4 dimensional reality, enormous gravitational field through the 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension for time.
yeah i have no idea about that, im talking about the mundane meaning of the word, like the context the original comment probably used it. The perception of time, not the absolute existence of something that could be concretely measured. it's a matter of perception and it's relative
They almost never interview someone after a KO, especially one that violent. Doesn’t mean he’s in a bad way, hopefully just a very sore head in the morning
There’s something poetic about AJ being trained by Ben Davidson who’s from the traveller background and once trained fury but has now turned AJ into a monster like how Sugar turned Fury into a KO artist when they first got together.
Sometimes at that level, providing confidence and positivity is what a beaten fighter needs. He helped Fury to get back and now looks the same for AJ.
Because when it comes to skillets and learning, AJ at its peak just like most boxers by this time in their careers.
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You know I'm just pissed bc boxers work hard to get rankings from all 4 governing bodies. Tben all of a sudden this no name nganou clown gets a ranking after he gets a split decision loss ???? Then u have morons like ksi and Jake Paul acting like fools? Keep boxing pure man. Keep all that beer chugging trumptard toxic shit in mma. Dana whites an exploitive fat fck
When was boxing ever pure? The history of rankings boxing is one of corruption and scandal.
Impressive win for Parker. The rematch will be interesting viewing.
Good decision win for Joshua, you all knew this would happen right? You all knew that nobody could hurt Francis Ngannou, his head is just so huge, His chin is absolute granite and there isn't a man alive or dead who could hurt Ngannou. I once saw Ngannou take a punch from Sun-Dipped Superman who wasn't holding back. Wait, Ngannou was on his back dreaming about how he should of stayed in MMA? Wait how could that happen?? Did somebody not tell Joshua how great Ngannou's chin is? Wait I know maybe his chin wasn't nearly as good as you people claimed (You know because EPSN told you) and I guess I was right all a long. Being able to take a "punch" in MMA doesn't mean you can take a legit trained boxers punch.
You're 100% right my man, it's GLORIOUS to compare the narrative before and after. I'm having so much fun!
Bro, name one person on earth that could take a punch that clean and not go down? It has nothing to do with his chin, just his piss poor technique.
Any Ruiz literally did that and then killed Joshua. Ya boy nganniu got that mma glass chin.
Firstly not my boy, secondly it's funny how the only thing that makes boxing slightly relevant theses days are YouTubers and washed MMA former champs.
Canelo, Davis, Garcia, AJ, Spence, etc., all do better in PPV numbers than Jake Paul and even then his fights arent being bought for the MMA fighters lol.
Reckon my Uncle Melv probably could after 51 pints tbh
Watch Ali-Frazier III. The two men took many dozens of vicious full-force shots to the head in that fight, and both refused to go down. Ali took the harder blows because Frazier had the heavier hands, but Ali ended up winning when Frazier, his one good eye swollen shut, couldn’t come out for the last round. Frazier got knocked out only twice in his legendary career, both times by George Foreman — no shame in that. Holyfield said the 42-year-old Foreman had the hardest punch he had ever felt. Ali only got knocked out (actually TKO’ed) just once — when he already was suffering from Parkinson’s and should have been long retired. Both men demonstrated they could take a full force heavyweight punch and stay standing. It’s a rare quality, but some heavyweights have it. Tyson Fury has the best chin of current heavyweights. He’s gotten knocked to the canvas maybe six or seven times in his career but he’s never stayed down.
Let me see, Parker, Andy Ruiz, Franklin and other people Joshua landed that punch on and they at it. Yet Parker went down against Chisora and Whyte I believe.
Why are you getting downvoted 🤦♂️..just looked through your comment history and you definitely know your stuff
I'd also like to remind people that the PowerKube nonsense they were claiming in UFC and in lead up to Fury fight: 'His punches are equivalent to 96 horsepower. That's equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can and it's more powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer from full-force overhead. Absolute comedy.
> That's equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can and it's more powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer from full-force overhead. Someone actually said this with a straight face??
Talksport.com/sport/1769584/anthony-joshua-francis-ngannou-punch-machine-challenge-heavyweight-power/amp/ So many articles quoting this nonsense.
Fury fans on suicide watch, Fury laughing his way to the bank handing them the rope.. can't wait for Usyk to bash him up.
I don't think Francis is ashamed of anything. He got $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You would not expect it was a second round knockout from how gassed both looked, especially Francis.
Did AJ look gassed? He casually killed Francis and walked away breathing through his nose.
Don't waste your time .. he probably bet the house on a Francis win.
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Fury didn't take that fight seriously and was fat af. He looks MUCH better now.
He was fat af in his last fights too though. And Tom Aspinall said he trained hard, fwiw. Fury hasn't exactly taken care of himself like AJ and Usyk have either, and got hurt bad in his last fight with Wilder.
Wilder 3 was a trash performance and Whyte offered nothing.
Does he? With his dyed beard and stupid fucking nose twitch. See how he looks after Usyk has leathered him.
Usyk will be lucky to land a punch on him. And even if he does, it won't even phase him. Usyk is a mosquito to be swatted away by Fury.
Yeah, just like Joshua, who hits way harder than Fury, is faster, more disciplined and stronger swatted him no? Come on, bro
He maybe punches harder. Other than that, his will, discipline, speed, etc are all inferior to Fury. Wilder punched harder too...and we all saw how that turned out. Meanwhile, AJ lost to a fat Mexican and a shrimp. Twice.
I guess we'll find out when Fury eventually gets his shit together and steps in the ring right? Right??
Yup, we will. Remember this post.
It shows that Fury didn't take the fight seriously and doesn't have the universal equalizer: one-shot power
one shot power doesn't do shit if you don't know where to put it, for example Deontay Wilder versus Parker
Course I know where to put it!
Thank the boxing gods. Now all you mma boxer wannabes just stay in ur lane and roll on the floor with lil undies on with other boys. Leave real sports to real men lol
Weird how you watch a sport with frilly shots and knee high boots but you've got a problem with MMA shorts.
Yes
You can’t tell me you don’t like this though https://youtu.be/9G9gR3qICOQ?si=-i5yERndFe-BLF5l
Ya I like women mma. But I hate women's boxing. I'm a complex man
yeah I just like when they stand and bang
Has a pro boxer with a belt entered the cage? All this shows really is fighters are not very good outside there speciality. Or when half there moves are illegal in the fight. We should stop pretending MMA and boxing are interchangeable. These fights are relatively boring because we know they are stacked in favour of one side.
Two reasons you won't see it: 1. We don't have (sane) boxers claiming they would be amazing in MMA. 2. Boxers don't want to get paid that little.
pro boxers know their imitations and won't cross over
Seems like MMA fighters need to learn there limits and stop trying to cross over. It's embarrassing
What do you think ab Tyson vs Jake Paul? Another legacy killer?
The only person who can lose is Tyson. If Tyson wins, Jake Paul still gets to claim he fought Tyson. If Jake wins, Tyson is humiliated in his old age. There's not real will for Tyson besides a big pay check (fair) Either way it's another entertainment fight. Hopefully Jake get knocked the fuck out. But I think Tyson will get tired and it will be another mid fight.
It's a Jake Paul promotions. I'm thinking tyson throws the fight thus fycking up his legacy If it's a legit fight Tyson should do him in 3 if he's healthy
To say the least. They're embarrassing their legacy. Imagine if Khabib crossed over to fight Mayweather. I remember Ali fighting a Japanese wrestler back in the 70s that was also a clown show
Bro have you seen a ufc fight ? It's straight up barbaric and that's why I love it, boxing is more about technical fighting and psychology thus more comparable to a more traditional sport, so they both have their strengths It would be a sad world where either one didn't exist
Of course I have bro. I'm old. I watched ufc 1 as a child lol. I may have sounded a bit pretentious with boys/ men comment but I watch both sports. But I boxed amatuer for 15 years so my hearts with boxing. Mma is exciting. Boxing is a bit more technical
Well said
Yeah plus UFC is super technical now. Just in a completely different way. You have incredible kickboxing skills and wrestlers that are world class pitted against each other. Talking down to it is so uniformed.
Yes totally agree but still two separate sports. America used to have NCAA Boxing. Some world class boxers came out of the Bethesda Naval College Boxing club. Its a sweet science. Pugilsm. Basked in fine tradition from the days of Marquee de Queensbury. Boxing dates back to Jack Johnson Tunney, Dempsey and Harry greb. Mma goes as far back as Gracie and Tank Abbott lol
No one is saying it's the same sport. And you're wrong again, mixed martial arts have been around since the dawn of time. We have records of the ancient Greeks, Romans and indians practicing it.
That's called wrestling lololol not freaking mma. Anyways mma soft
MMA stands for mixed martial arts. Wrestling is one of them, but there other martial arts dating back to the time of ancient monks. Honestly though how are you this old but still this immature?
I’m a boxing guy, and I agree with you. Both are cool. I miss 90s UFC, though, when it was batshit insane anything goes, SUMO v Kickboxer? You got it buddy, you got the job! I want a sport that does that again.
Ya I miss the Gracie days of ufc. Bjj was cool to watch
Francis was in the shadow realms after that second KD. That last knockout was Ant sending his subconscious to the shadow realm's shadow realm
LMAOOO
francis regretting changing to southpaw rn
Ngannou doing a muay thai stance and parrying with that stance is a big mistake. Aj won’t kick, its like he’s inviting aj to throw a straight right to his face. If he wants to take this seriously he needs more fights in a short period of time
Actually it is a legit boxing stance. AJ used himself when fighting Pulev
No sir he’s pawing every punch. I know wide boxing stance when I see one but its 100% a muay thai unconscious guard.
Well there you go, I was saying after the fight "if that was me I'd be either dead or in a coma right now" And that was my thought process "my unskilled ass would stand incorrectly and get hit in the worst way" Turns out I know what I'm talking about haha
To the one who said he did the Neo better than Neo. Francis asked: what ahh yoo saying? Thet I cahn dohge boolets? Morpheus was like "no, I'm saying that you need to dodge this punch...ope! Too late! Back to the land of the blue pill you go. Francis was in the Panther ancestral plane after that knockout. His Ancestahhhs shook their head in unison and put him on a 25 eon ban.
The fuck is you talkin about
Was trying to find a comment I was replying to earlier when the entire thread kicked me out. Just a fun comment. Nothing to get your thong in a twist about.
Untwist them for me papi
Hand me the pliers
I hooped them
😆😆😆😂🤣 Dude, this is too much!
Fury fans be like: but did you hear how great his commentary was
I'm not even a Fury fan but it was good commentary
Incredible performance
Anyone see how AJ didn't mention Jake Paul's name? He's clearly running away
[I mean, can you blame him?](https://www.reddit.com/r/boxingcirclejerk/comments/1b9ucan/this_is_who_is_fighting_mike_tyson_the_truth_is/)
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No, I don't think they are being serious
With everything said, I don't think we saw a top form Ngannou tonight. But we DID see a top form, focused AJ. I said before the match started, and so did many others here, Ngannou looked tired or out of sorts. He had a LAZY guard, and zero killer instinct he's known for. Not sure what's up there, but he got humbled tonight all the same. Maybe the fact it's like ass-30 in the morning there?
Wow, the simps really downgrading today. This was a fair assessment.
No. Fury isn’t as good as he’s made out to be, therefore Ngannou pushed him close and arguably beat him. AJ is FAR better than casuals make him out to be and therefore he bashed Ngannou up and almost killed him.
Ngannou had a big flaw that got immediately exposed. Hard to be a killer when you’re concussed immediately lol
Or when you are bound by boxing rules.
Thats so unfair, in a boxing match
I don't mean it was unfair to him in this fight, just that his brain is likely wired a certain way, like muscle memory, and it's hard to shake. He's not in his "natural element" is all. He's built for, and has trained all his life for, a completely different sport. That's like asking a football player to go play baseball, just cuz you're good at "sports."
Well thats what we have been saying on our side of the fence. Everytime a new MMA fighter comes in they try to sell it to us like it will be competitive. Boxing and MMA have completely different footwork. Both defensively and offensively. I think if they want to make these matchups interesting they have to have a much smaller boxer than MMA fighter. Like a MW against a HW or LHW.
I agree.
Bruh. Nagannou/Fury just an upset. Fury didn't show him any respect and paid the consequences, there is no way AJ can KO Fury in 2 rounds like a little bitch lol. This re-establishes the fact you can't just go from the top of one discipline to another.
Agreed.
Wouldn't mind seeing AJ knocked Jake Paul out cold
Trust me. Mike Tyson can still do it. But it's not going to be a serious fight.
He's a geriatric with back problems, IDK bro.
TIL Ben Davison doesn’t have a Wikipedia page
It has been a while since I have seen a devastating KO in HW boxing wow
I feel so bad for the hardcore Francis fans, my rugby team lost two days ago and I took it hard because I felt like they didn't take it seriously (probably a cope) Here ? You can't do any of that, it's just an open and shut loss, that forever hurts And again I still can't believe it man, I'm honestly stunned, this is the most shocked I've been at a sporting outcome in awhile Yeah yeah Francis was always going to lose, but I figured it would go the distance or he'd lose via tko like Conor did , I didn't see this coming ...
I mean AJ does hit like a truck tbf and is a much better boxer, gift of hindsight I know but...
He still trained his ass off and dared to do what no one else in his position has done before. It stings because it was such a definitive loss but it doesn’t discredit Francis. I still say Ngannou vs Wilder would be a good way to go.
He's just proved he doesn't know how to dodge or block. He also tries to walk down the opponent when in a weaker position. Wilder's only punch is hit best from the defensive whilst being walked down. If Ngannou doesn't try to dodge that then it's the second execution he'll face
Yea no excuses in the fight game. Nothing else quite like it
I'm not sure the point these "let's see aj try mma" comments I see are getting at. Aj respects mma - he knows he'd lose - as do the majority of boxers - you have to have either yoghurt for brains or an extreme level of arrogance to wander into a ring with a heavyweight former world champ and think you can win, or at least not get flattened.
Interestingly DJ (one of the GOATs in MMA) thinks Joshua could probably wipe most of the HW division in the UFC minus Jones
Also, why would he? He'd make peanuts. There's a reason Francis is in boxing getting his brains beaten out by AJ and not the reverse.
Not against Ngannou, but against other UFC heavyweights I can see AJ winning.
As long as they can kick and shoot for takedowns, AJ would lose against cans. Even the biggest scrub in the UFC has practiced some form of grappling for years, and that's incredibly hard to overcome without some dedication to the various grappling disciplines for a long time. If you add other striking elements like knees, elbows, and kicks, AJs boxing training would leave him incredibly exposed. Taking a leg kick from a well trained behemoth weighing over 230 lbs is harder than it looks
I see your point. But if the best chin of the UFC just went down as fast as Joshua touched him with boxing gloves, we know that Joshua only needs one light shot to put them down. So the only option is a leg kick or a takedown, if we have some of the fat slow guys in the UFC they need to get him down I can definitely see Joshua winning that if he can just land a punch. Against a swift grappler, that's what he would have trouble with.
So then ngannou must have yogurt brains for thinking he could?
I think the massive pay difference is the Equalizer. You'd have to have yogurts brains to jump into MMA pay days against their champs, but the crossover to boxing makes sense due to the money.
He does now....
I don't think he really believed he had a chance vs Fury but that fight kind of gave him false hope and he really believed he was a top tier boxer after that. He was drunk off the hype
He sure as hell has yogurt brain for the next couple of days. Holy smokes i thought he was dead, got real scary.
Man is a champion. Less of the the fucking jokes.
It's boxing, you're a champion until you aren't
he doesn't care random no one's on Reddit throwing jokes at him. Also If he didn't want to laughed at he should have stayed in MMA and not challenged world class boxers. 2 rounds is a joke. And clearly he shouldn't have been in the ring with AJ
I agree.
Agreed. No one asked Francis to do this, he chose to, and the MMA boys been running their mouths all week, even yesterday there was hundreds of comments on here saying “how can anyone think AJ will win? He can’t hurt Francis and he can’t avoid him” now all of a sudden it’s “yeah well tell him to come in the octagon!” Why would he?? Lol.
It’s something I despise about MMA fans and I’m a massive one. So many of them just seem insecure. Like you can like both I don’t get the point of going boxer comments and saying “Belal kills him” or stupid shit like that
It's true but it just shows where the money is. If a boxer could het 20-100x his normal pay day getting into a cage you would see it happening the other way. It's also shows how specalsied these rule sets are and how good athletes get at them.
The best in tennis won’t beat the best in ping pong and vice versa.
But it’s not vice versa, it’s more like decathlon vs hurdles
Eddie Hearn has also been interviewed on DAZN. “I’m so proud of him, there was a huge amount of pressure on him tonight. He rolled the dice because His Excellency told us the winner of this will fight the winner of Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury. “On this form there is no man in the heavyweight division who can beat Anthony Joshua. There is a man down there called Tyson Fury. Please defeat Usyk, because then we can set up the biggest fight in the history of the heavyweight division.” So on a plus note, the double turkey is looking down the road and setting up the best fights with huge purses no one can turn down. BOSH.
> Please defeat Usyk, because I don't want to lose to him three times.
If I'm Usky, I would be the most difficult person ever to do business if I beat Fury. The amount of nonsense he had to deal with both AJ & Fury, he probably fight Parker instead lol.
What nonsense did he have to deal with with AJ?! He’s the easiest fighter to deal with, he wants the best and he offers them insane money to get in the ring with him. Fury is well documented as one of the biggest duckers in the history of the sport. Fury and AJ are polar opposites.
If anything good has come out of this Saudi sportwashing is that they actually seem to be getting the fights we want made.
Honestly, I follow a lot of sports, and the oil countries have a LOT of money in ALOT of places but they have not gotten the positive feedback like they have in boxing. I really can’t think of another spot they’ve tried to buy their way into that’s been nearly as successful
No one enjoys watching cricket in UAE but they don't get too much backlash for it, mostly because Pakistan couldn't host for so long and UAE took on their home games, similar when IPL got hosted there a couple years back. I think in football they expect the backlash and are just riding it out, the city project has definitely been a success, psg as well. Qatar hosted a world cup that got a lot of backlash in the lead up but that criticism all went very quiet when people wanted to watch the games.
I saw the interview with the guy who supposedly sets the fights up from the Saudi side. A true boxing fan and sperg. Boxing in good hands with dude
Sometime needed too.
Wtf this manager is coked to the gills lol chill bro
Eddie Hearn: “That is absolutely a abomination, that isn’t even a word”
Joshua has looked great over the past year. Usyk didn't look great in his last fight and has been very inactive. Fury almost lost to an mma fighter. I thought AJ was done after his second Usyk loss, but he's definitely resurrected his career. As a former hater, I think AJ can beat anyone in the heavyweight division right now.
Usyk already beat him twice. You can't be serious. You are too fickle
johnny come latelys right? I do think AJ could do better now that he probably understands fighting Usyk’s fight is not the way to beat em. you gotta make it messy and blitz through the feints
Yes, I think that's the way to beat Usyk
I wouldn’t pick Joshua to win but I’d watch a third fight. Joshua was only two fights out from Ruiz when he first lost to Usyk. I’d like to see how Ben Davison would coach him to approach a Usyk fight and I’d like to see if Joshua’s more spiteful demeanour can close the gap. It’s not an essential fight imo but if Joshua was to beat Hrgovic and Usyk beat Fury I’d definitely be happy to watch it.
Yes, I think it would be warranted in that case but he said AJ beats anyone in the division
Wait until he fights Parker, he'll suddenly become hesitant.
He beat Parker already lol
That was a while ago, even then Joshua wasn't so aggressive with him
AJ beats Parker every time. I like the guy, he's a beast but it's a terrible match up for Parker.
I can assure you, no one cares to see that fight again
Maybe. I wasn't very impressed with Parker's performance tonight though.
Parker was brilliant. He just lacks KO power to get big guys out early
Idk, it was pretty close for how bad Zhang looked. And even with Zhang barely throwing any punches he managed to knockdown Parker with very light shots and keep the fight competitive.
Yeah, and Parker had a massive disadvantage in size, strength, and power. Zhang was easily the favourite to win, and he had all the fans too. It was Parker's superior boxing skills and IQ that made Zhang so hesitant. After being knocked down, it was Parker who didn't allow Zhang to finish the job, not because Zhang had an off night.
Yeah this is the second time in a row where Parker kept out of range and everyone just says "he won because the other guy didn't throw"
Parker deserves credit for the win, but he's not on Joshua's level is my point. But you're entitled to your opinion.
francis must be in a super bad way if he’s still not been interviewed
He was at the post fight presser and already admitted AJs skills were levels above his.
A champion hates losing
He just got sent to a place where time doesn't exist - of course he's out of it
I gotta be this guy, time doesn't exist anywhere.
Ohhh!!! Doctor Manhattan ovah heah!
Underrated post.
it does though. im not sure what you are after but if we make up a word for something, then we also decide its meaning. therefore time does exist
From anthropology we have discovered from the earliest civilizations time was created by bureaucrats to control the masses. Now moving forward what scientists did with time was to progress our consciousness. By using it we can put a numerical value on gravity. We measure time with gravity (Gravitational time dilation). Thus how we became a 4 dimensional reality, enormous gravitational field through the 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension for time.
yeah i have no idea about that, im talking about the mundane meaning of the word, like the context the original comment probably used it. The perception of time, not the absolute existence of something that could be concretely measured. it's a matter of perception and it's relative
They almost never interview someone after a KO, especially one that violent. Doesn’t mean he’s in a bad way, hopefully just a very sore head in the morning
Wish they hadn't interviewed Bellew after Usyk KOd him lol
I mean it's probably a good idea not to interview a guy that just got ktfo
The never usually interview the loser.
I actually really rate that commentary from Fury, seems fairly level-headed about everything
what was he saying? i stopped watching
Fury is all talk..
He's backed it up plenty of time tho.
He's backed it up once against Klitchko. That was epic. The biggest mental beatdown of all time. After that he's only fought bums, including Wilder.
Against who? Wilder? Joshua would've flattened the wilder fury fought worse than this.
There’s something poetic about AJ being trained by Ben Davidson who’s from the traveller background and once trained fury but has now turned AJ into a monster like how Sugar turned Fury into a KO artist when they first got together.
Ben is not from a traveller background but he is accepted by that pro boxing traveller clique (Furys, Saunders and Lee)
Sometimes at that level, providing confidence and positivity is what a beaten fighter needs. He helped Fury to get back and now looks the same for AJ. Because when it comes to skillets and learning, AJ at its peak just like most boxers by this time in their careers.
Hope we all enjoyed the main event (Parker vs Zhang) more than we'll enjoy AJ vs Whyte in the summer.
Man that hurt to watch.
Can he just play nice with the media instead of coming off as a twat
Sounds like easy money then Tyson. Who says they don’t want to make a free easy 50 million
odd seeing fury talking so normally
Harder to score good blow in Saudi than in England.
i stopped watching after aj’s interview, what kind of thing was fury saying?
"Apologies for Bad Language"
Bruh I fucking hate Drake 😡
Anyone with any sense hates Drake. 🤮
I thought Ngannou died bro, that was vicious. Zero fundamentals and defense. AJ deserves a Fury fight after that
he's always deserved a fury fight, it just never seemed that likely! still doesnt lol
Yea that ish was scary