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Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:09 pm to Cregg
Well, he got a nice payday out of it anyway.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:14 pm to Cregg
Maybe ngannou can fight a Paul cousin on Tubi or something next
Keep the checks coming in since his boxing career is stalled out
Keep the checks coming in since his boxing career is stalled out
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:20 pm to Lawyered
Well that mystique is now over. After this giant crushes him in for the PFL championship he’ll be end up a what could have been.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:28 pm to gsvar2004
Do you think he’ll come back and fight Bones for one more payday?
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:31 pm to Cregg
my reaction to francis getting slept
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:01 pm to TheOcean
I don’t blame Ngannou for chasing his dream to be boxer, but dude could’ve dominated the UFC. He’s better in the octagon than boxing ring.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:10 pm to JohnnyRebel
Those feints by Joshua threw Francis for a loop. Once Joshua saw how easy it was to get through Francis defense with straits to the head, and how slow Francis was to react, it was just child's play at that point.
Joshua hit Francis with the exact same 2 right hands to end the fight on the knockdown then then the KO.
Fury either came into that fight tremdously out of shape or it was a fixed fight. I refuse to believe he couldn't have KO'd Francis at will of he actually took the fight seriously.
Either that, or the fight tape in Francis showed a glaring weakness in his defense that Fury clearly didnt know about before their match.
Either way, Francis is now a dead draw as a fighter. All the luster of the Bones fight is kind of gone now too. Francis can only get it back if he goes in and destroys Ryan Bader or whoever the hell the PFL gives him.
Then he may be able to salvage something, but he chased and made the $$ and his career is probably 2 fights from over now.
Joshua hit Francis with the exact same 2 right hands to end the fight on the knockdown then then the KO.
Fury either came into that fight tremdously out of shape or it was a fixed fight. I refuse to believe he couldn't have KO'd Francis at will of he actually took the fight seriously.
Either that, or the fight tape in Francis showed a glaring weakness in his defense that Fury clearly didnt know about before their match.
Either way, Francis is now a dead draw as a fighter. All the luster of the Bones fight is kind of gone now too. Francis can only get it back if he goes in and destroys Ryan Bader or whoever the hell the PFL gives him.
Then he may be able to salvage something, but he chased and made the $$ and his career is probably 2 fights from over now.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:13 pm to JohnnyRebel
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I don’t blame Ngannou for chasing his dream to be boxer, but dude could’ve dominated the UFC. He’s better in the octagon than boxing ring.
He's made more money in these 2 boxing matches then he was ever gonna make in the UFC.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:15 pm to Jack Ruby
He made 600k in his last UFC fight and just made $20 million getting KOd. He definitely made the right decision
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:45 pm to TheOcean
Can’t blame him there, he’s also said he’s always wanted to be a Boxer, so I don’t I have an argument that it was just about the money either.
I still think his skill set is more suited for the octagon. But can’t blame him for leaving. Dana needs to do a better job sharing the wealth with his fighters.
I still think his skill set is more suited for the octagon. But can’t blame him for leaving. Dana needs to do a better job sharing the wealth with his fighters.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:58 pm to JohnnyRebel
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I still think his skill set is more suited for the octagon. But can’t blame him for leaving. Dana needs to do a better job sharing the wealth with his fighters.
yep. its crazy how much more francis made on those boxing matches. i'm glad he finally got some bigger paydays
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:58 pm to JohnnyRebel
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Can’t blame him there, he’s also said he’s always wanted to be a Boxer, so I don’t I have an argument that it was just about the money either. I still think his skill set is more suited for the octagon. But can’t blame him for leaving. Dana needs to do a better job sharing the wealth with his fighters.
Ngannou turned down a contract offer that would have paid him 5 million+ per fight and probably ppv points as a champion.
Definitely the right move because of the boxing paydays but the UFC offered him to be highest paid HW ever even though he wasnt a real draw.
Posted on 3/8/24 at 10:30 pm to Jack Ruby
That was a BRUTAL KO
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:10 am to JohnnyRebel
Last fight in UFC as HW champ: 600k
0-1 fighting a former HW boxing champ: 20M
STFU
0-1 fighting a former HW boxing champ: 20M
STFU
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:22 am to RBTiger
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That was a BRUTAL KO
In MMA, the fight would have probably been stopped after the knockdown in the first round. Instead, in boxing, Francis took dozens more and TWO more KO-type blows until his lights were ultimately turned out.
After the second knockdown, he was out on his feet. He had nothing behind his eyes and he knew it, and so did Joshua.
By the sport allowing a fighter to recover, it actually brutalizes them more in many ways. There is a lot more glitz and circumstance around boxing, but it's an absolutely brutal way to make a living.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:07 am to ZIGG
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Francis was never a draw in the UFC
I mean this is just not true
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:30 am to tee3
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Francis won at the end of the day, made like 20m off that.
no he didn't
that is the LIE that Ariel and other anti-UFC "reporters" are saying, but facts are facts.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:34 am to diat150
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How much did they pay fury to carry francis for that last fight so they could squeeze a nickel out of him.
Fury is not that good. Most Brits will tell you the same.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 7:05 am to ZIGG
How does Dana's nuts taste? Can't believe you're shilling for someone that 100% underpays fighters. Tyson Pedro was talking about how he basically lost money last fight night and joked around about having to rob someone in the parking lot.
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