Topic: [Boxing] Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou - March 9 - page 13. (Read 2643 times)

Mike Tyson it is, he is very confident with his fighter and I know they'll do better this time. Just look at this, last time he fought a champion, now against AJ which is a big downgrade, so despite not having the experience in boxing like AJ does, I think he is still very dangerous.

Ngannou learned a lot from his lose to Fury (although fans didn't agree on a loss) so for sure we will see a different Ngannou here, a fighter that will be more aggressive and will know how to conserve his energy well.

And the refs? don't worry about that as this fight will end up in KO. As to the winner, not sure who will win between the two.

Just remember who is going to be in his corner again, the legend Mike Tyson.
With him by his side Ngannou is going to improve a lot, he is going to learn few more boxing tricks, and I think Joshua has much more to lose in this fight than he does.
I just hope refs wont ruin the fight again with some weird decisions just because he is coming with mma background.

I dunno. I think he should keep his size and just work on cardio, but I'm neither an expert or a trainer haha. One thing he's got is his size and AJ is also very big, so I think he should try to out-muscle him and use his strength and weight to his advantage to try weigh AJ down. This is what Fury usually tries to do to exhaust his opponents but he couldn't do that to Francis as he was just too big and heavy so this is now an advantage for Francis. Like against Fury I don't think Francis can outbox his opponent but as we have seen he can certainly floor his opponent and I think that's what he needs to try do early against AJ so he doesn't get outboxed or worn down over the rounds.


Francis should have improved a lot since the Fury fight. Months of extra training and they at least now know his limits and what sort of gas-tank he has so they can work on his 'weaknesses' if any. I think Francis has got at least a few years left in him yet at 37 and could even be in his peak shape right now so I wouldn't worry too much about age right now. He could easily get in two or maybe three fights a year up until he's 40. Usyk is also the same age and Zhang is even older at 40 and is having the peak performance of his career right now.

Maybe there's some truth to that, but he'll have to pace himself anyway. With his >123kg of pure muscles, it won't be easy to stay oxygenated for a full 10 rounds.
I wonder if he'll try to cut more weight for this one. In the fight against Fury, he was the lighter one, but now he'll be over 10kg heavier than Joshua so it would make some sense to drop the weight a little bit to improve his cardio. He'll still have more than enough KO power.


100% agree. His best bet is to put the pressure on. Boxing gloves might be 2x larger than UFC ones, but for a guy this size, it won't make that big of a difference.
He knows how to counterstrike and how to throw combos other than the one-two, so hopefully we'll see some of that.
Francis is slowly approaching retirement age and doesn't have any time to waste + he's got a lot to win, so I hope he won't be holding back and just trying to survive.

This fight is where Francis gets to prove himself and show that the first fight wasn't just a fluke. If what Francis said is true that he wasn't using 100% of his power due to fearing he may have gassed out early then that makes him doubly dangerous now. He knows he can up the pressure and not take it as easy as the first fight and no doubt he's improved in training from his first fight too along with hopefully working on his cardio. I was very impressed with how Ngannou fought like a boxer in the Fury fight but I think he needs to combine that with how he fought in the UFC and just use the power he has and try get an early KO which is pretty much how most of his UFC fights went. As people have said, AJ probably has a weaker chin as well so he needs to capitalise on that, but AJ is on a bit of a winning streak right now and seems to be very confident and got his mojo back but that could also be very easily taken away from him too. AJ will be seeing this fight as a chance to get one over on Fury by proxy and do a better job than he did whilst trying to get a fight with Fury next in the process.


He did go the full ten rounds against the current heavyweight champ of the world though so lets give him credit for that. I'm sure he's been working on his cardio too but maybe Francis will try get an early KO this time so he doesn't need to go the distance but if he can do it against Fury I think he can do it against AJ as well.

He also had several wins since then but they had left some doubt because he lacked confidence and looked fearful. By beating Wallin so one-sided it convinced people that he is still a viable contender who could be competitive against the best heavyweights. That's as close to prime Joshua as we have seen in several years. If he can win impressively against an opponent that Fury struggled with then he will become the most obvious candidate to face whoever becomes undisputed champion next month.

Joshua is not like Fury because based on his past fights, he obviously cannot withstand huge power punches like what has landed on Fury and we all know that Ngannou will train to make punches like that land more accurately on his opponent since he already has the power and if he can easily win against Joshua, then they will gonna make a duology against Fury in his next bout unless if fury will gonna lost against Usyk, then it will be Usyk vs Ngannou next time for more money and surely they will get another big sponsor once again.

It seems Ngannou was already catching his breath in round 3, but then a strong punch is always a strong punch even when one is already breathing heavily. It might not be as swift, but it will definitely remain powerful when it hits. As the fight continued, it was more obvious that Ngannou was running out of air. And with Tyson having the ability to remain quick until the end, the tired Ngannou was easily outscored.


That's for sure, I completely agree with you. Joshua has a weak chin, so I don't think he'll be able to stand up after that huge hit, or if he could stand up againt he would still be finish in the same round if there's still enough time.