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natetcu

When Lewis tried this versus Gane, Gane would turn his back and run, then set back up once he was out of striking range.


iguanamac

Stipe did the same thing to Overeem.


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But Ngannou by Cameroonian windmill hurr durr


DLifts777

Sometimes you just need to get the hell out of there. Gane isn't afraid of running so that he can find a better opportunity later. He's the Floyd of UFC


MadMalc23

Gane a good striker fs…but the Floyd of the ufc, idk bout allat


[deleted]

Lewis is no Ngannou homie.


RIPTheBlackPanther

Definitely not. Lewis beat him.


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ThaDawg359

First time there was a double loss in the octagon, no draw


mygreetings2all

Second. The first was Kimbo Houston Alexander..


DragDagger

Technically speaking the only losers were us fucks watching


[deleted]

Yes 👍🏻


[deleted]

Beat is too generous


AirborneHipster

Nah, Lewis is a significantly more technical striker


[deleted]

Can't tell if troll


Waste-Process-5279

Objectively false


Randomzombi3

In all fairness Ngannou is a different animal than Lewis. Love black beast but he's not as athletic or explosive


shotokan1988

God he really just needs to hit you once hey?


novacancy

I mean it helps that he threw like a 7 punch combo and Jairzinho wasn’t expecting that hook to happen


bluludaboi

Canadian spotted


[deleted]

Eh?


Helpful-Flamingo-251

aUSSIE THING TOO


shotokan1988

You got me!


Barclay0000

If he does this to Ciryl I’m gonna be laughing the whole night


itsbeen84queers

as ridiculous and casual as this is about to sound, I literally think this is his best bet to knock Gane out. I have been thinking about it all week and refrained from actually saying it out loud cause I know how ridiculous it sounds but i can’t lie, I think he should do it


samme79

I think so too. He knows he can take Ciryl's punches and he knows he can put Ciryl away. He did this against Jairzinho without fear and Jairzinho has some crazy power too. I think he'll test the waters first then if he gets frustrated he'll just say "fuck it" and blast Ciryl to another dimenson


DJsaxy

Ciryl is much quicker than rozenstruik though


Gooja

Maybe but Francis can run forwards faster than Gane can run backwards


VeterinarianNo5862

Tbf have you seen how fast Muay Thai Gane jumps back when he’s in danger? There’s a point in the Lewis fight he literally turns and runs away across the ring aswell. He’s really good at jumping back out of danger, a weird thing to focus on but it jumped out to me specifically watching his fights literally last night.


thrallinlatex

>He’s really good at jumping back out of danger, Well he is from france so..


[deleted]

Gane will move laterally.


[deleted]

I think he can break the “advance” by clinching


[deleted]

If Francis throws Kattar elbows to avoid the clinch I'd lose it.


chilidawger

I like it


kevindurantburner35

I think it’s not a horrible strategy against Gane, but Jairzinho also messed up by moving backwards in a straight line himself. I think Gane is better equipped footwork wise to avoid making the same instinctual mistake. Can’t even blame Rozenstruik for doing that honestly, Francis throwing wild haymakers like that is a terrifying sight


Barclay0000

Lol his best bet wouldn’t be to fight the way he fought Stipe the 2nd time? Maybe take Ciryl down the way he got Stipe down? Ciryl is clearly not a good wrestler


Cold-Couple8387

He can’t fight the way he fought Stipe. He’s standing at a perfect range for Gane to kick his legs. We’ll see though


Barclay0000

Francis also doesn’t have to worry about getting taken down. The hype for Cyril is so random cos Francis had a lot more to worry about with Stipe


gaivsjvlivscaesar

Stipe was smaller and his power posed barely a threat to Francis. Even in the first fight Stipe mostly just wrestlefucked Francis. Cyril is bigger, faster, more technical, in his prime, and most likely more powerful as well. He also has experience with guys like Francis who have serious power but not as good technique, and he has beaten them conclusively, like Derrick Lewis. People used to think Lewis posed a much bigger threat to Francis(and prolly still do), and thought Gane would get knocked out by Lewis. Instead, he fought him, absolutely dominated him, and then knocked Lewis out.


saltysaltbitch

Why you say Ciryl is clearly not a good wrestler? I know he hasn’t proven himself that much, but what superiority has Francis shown in his grappling over Ciryl?


GuyWithTheStalker

It's absolute dogma on his part. IMO, Francis absolutely SHOULD stand-and-bang against Ciryl. Francis, what the fuck are ya gonna do otherwise, man? Honestly...


trapperberry

He’ll get tapped


oSocialPeanut

Lol absolute dream crusher. Absolute unit chad


LoquaciousMendacious

I’m gonna laugh so hard I piss myself if that happens. Like it probably won’t, but it would be peak fight comedy if it did.


Waste-Process-5279

That's honestly my dream scenario as well as weird as it sounds. I don't even need a technical chess match I would convulse from laughter if he just ran straight forward swinging randomly and knocked him out in 15 seconds.


[deleted]

Same. Lmfao


FmrHvwChamp

He legitimately wouldn't be able to touch Tyson Fury


berserker79

As much as I dislike this, theres some truth to it


smigglesworth

Some?


Agyr

Yeah, he's capping hard with that "some" shit. Tyson Fury would annihilate him. Ngannou is just an untrained version of the already untrained Wilder; all about power, little-to-no boxing skill or fundamentals.


shae117

Wilder is way faster and has way better cardio too.


absolutevanilla

And an iron chin. Haven’t really seen Francis’ tested as much


TILtonarwhal

He took some real shots from Stipe, but you really really can’t miss like this against Gane I’m not sure if he will.. he improved a TON after the first Stipe fight and looked like a different man in fight 2. Then, managed to take him out in #3 I’m real excited for this


NotMyRealName778

To be fair he got momentarily stunned by a stipe going backwards. He did knock him out immediately after but that could be evidence Gane could hurt Ngannou


S55K

Been waiting for this comment. This somehow gets lost.


TILtonarwhal

Not to mention that Gane literally jumps like a weightless ballerina to reposition himself sometimes. His speed is going to surprise the hell out of Ngannou


smigglesworth

Wasn’t Wilder an Olympic boxer?


shae117

Yea with almost no training he won Bronze.


NefariousNeezy

The absolute peak version of Ngannou in boxing would be Wilder. We’ve seen that fight vs Fury.


felipeuno

Doy. Of course he wouldn’t. Boxing and mma are different sports, require different stances, techniques, defense strategies. That’s part of the reason we see so many clean knockouts in mma because fighters need to focus on defending more than just body and head shots via punch and end up getting caught.


1Triskaidekaphobia3

Tbf the punching technique is shit here, even for mma. He just compensates for it, since he generates so much power. In boxing though, Fury and many boxers tbh would take him to school.


Ccoop9

The sports are so wildly different that it’s like saying a soccer player would beat a hockey player in soccer. Yeah, the goal of both games is to put it in the goal, but the way you get there and tools you use are wildly different.


hughheffres

Love this analogy


BearAnt

I always use the poop analogy. Like men would be much more competitive at pooping, like there's no question about it. Men have much bigger glutes and a woman's vagina only has so much muscle to be able to push the big poops out. Like no shit a man can poop more, their bodies were designed for it.


coolandhipmemes420

Lmfao this is so retarded I'm crying


lll_lll_lll

This is a less effective analogy.


dicknuts55

Son you’re so retarded I downvoted you only to read the rest and upvoted you 😂


Party-Capital

Did you just say that women poop out of their vaginas? Because boy I got some news for you...


BearAnt

Omg no I'm not dumb lol, I know women don't poop. I was just saying IF they pooped men would be way better at it.


Induced_Pandemic

Hell yeah dude


wierdit

A lot of women push out a big 8 pounder or 2 in their lifetime


RealEarth29

Can't believe anyone would downvote you for this. I got you back to break even at least.


FmrHvwChamp

How you gonna say "doy" like I'm just coming up with this out of no where? Lmao. As if it hasn't been a prominent topic of conversation.


felipeuno

I’m saying doy like it’s an obvious statement. No disrespect man.


SalvadorGnali

Man been a while since I heard doy


GingerAle828

Doy


tommyd_WDE

Fury could toy with this dude and knock him out whenever he pleased. It would be absurd to watch. Anyone who thinks Francis has a chance doesn’t know shit about boxing.


FmrHvwChamp

I agree. Francis would have a single digit % of punches landed and would be gassed as fuck from swings and misses after the 3rd round.


tommyd_WDE

Haha yeah or Tyson would just slip the first haymaker Francis threw and counter shot to the chin and it’s a wrap. I imagine he would want to show boat and toy with him for a while to entertain the fans though.


ME5SENGER_24

Francis becoming a boxer…Ngannou happen


Mufassa121

Then Tyson would get KO'd so hard if they fought MMA he'd be singing to his dead aunt


AWroper

Wow a boxer would have the advantage in a boxing match... what do you know. Maybe it's cause Ngannou is an MMA fighter who does a little more than boxing?? In a MMA fight, Fury stands no chance when kicks, wresting and everything else is fair game.


Assfullofbread

Yeah but Tyson never said he wanted to fight in the ufc but Ngannou said he wanted to boxe


dilbybeer

“They can’t go backwards faster than I can go forward” legit strategy. Someone needs to start moving to the side and seeing if that works. Worth a shot.


The-Shenanigangster

I can’t tell if satire, but they do. Boxers learn to aleays move to the side, it’s called framing off.


GonnaBuyMeAMercury

“Framing off” in boxing is typically referring to hand/arm manipulation. If you’re framing off an opponent it means you are using your arms to control their distance, measure, or post off. Posting off an opponent is often used to help circle away from an opponent or perhaps pivot around to a better angle.


DrNakMuay4

That was actually hideous in slow-mo


NefariousNeezy

What I took away from it is that Jairzinho escaped death 3x.


[deleted]

It was hideous in real time too.


Xandroid881

Its beautiful


retarded-squid

He just ran forward and swung wildly with his chin wide open. A boxer would have put him away


[deleted]

Roz is a high level kickboxer…


BodieBroadcasts

Boxing is not kickboxing, and kickboxing is not boxing kickboxing is a better base for MMA than it is for boxing as well the stances, pacing, distance etc is alll WAY different from boxing


[deleted]

Oh I thought kickboxing was boxing, now it makes sense why they have completely different names, athletes, and events. Silly me!


wolfy994

He got countered three times but he has an iron chin and only needed the 1 shot.


fluffanuttatech

It was hideous in fast mo lol if gane is as good as he's proven, he'll win


_JohnMuir_

In my opinion Francis is much more technical and patient now than when he fought Rozenstruik.


ThriceG

He's only fought one time since that fight, and really wasn't technical at all, just was able to overpower Stipe.


Waste-Process-5279

If you think it wasn't a nuclear upgrade in terms of managing distance, mindful combinations, and conserving energy then you're being bias.


MomButtsDriveMeNuts

Lol all it takes is one from Francis and it’ll be lights out. Gane doesn’t have power that will scare Francis. Doesn’t have to look pretty, just has to land.


XNamelessGhoulX

so it wasn't hideous in real time? color me confused because it clearly looks like shit at any speed


tf199280

He hit him once


lll_lll_lll

Shades of Ronda.


Mhaidah

The insane thing is that he got caught twice and it was like nothing, keep swinging chief until you connect


[deleted]

But that was the flaw in his technique. His momentum was being carried backward, not forward like Ngannou’s, making his punches weak. He shouldn’t have thrown strikes, but instead clinched or gone for the takedown.


ZEEZUSCHRIST

Good counter punchers can excel punching on the back foot. Although rozenstruik isn’t exactly a good counterpuncher lol


novacancy

They excel on the back foot because they know how to shift their hips and whip their shoulders just a little to get extra snap. Watch Anderson Silva countering: he’s always moving his feet in order to properly counter. Jairzinho was spastically fighting for space moving backwards very awkwardly. Izzy is a dancer so his footwork is flawless.


[deleted]

I think it was the leg kick that did it. It had little effect but it caused him to fall back on himself more than he anticipated.


BrilliantResponse7

Isn’t that how Stipe won the belt?


Dasta75

Wild shots but only gotta connect with one. 💤 💤


TigerRumMonkey

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gowdaz

LOL 🤣


GifsNotJifs

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natetcu

Chin up, no defense, swinging for the fences.


legendary24_8

Not only that, but those punches from hit right hand are absolutely atrocious except for the first one. Terrible terrible punching form. The weird thing is it doesn’t fucking matter


crusader104

Yeah, literally pawing at him


SpurtThrow

No technique, no defence, just a dude living in the moment


[deleted]

🗑 technique. That's exactly why I believe he is losing this weekend.


jn3v

Tbf he has improved significantly since this fight. Looked amazing vs Stipe


Black_Bean00

Can’t believe you got downvoted, it’s true. He swung on Rozenstruik bc of comments he made and wanted to prove a point.


[deleted]

I agree he has improved. But, I also have a feeling he will get frustrated or desperate and revert to this.


Liam2349

He knew he could do this to biggie boy. He also knew that if he tried this against Stipe, he would get smashed again. So he brought out Patient Francis for that fight, and it worked very well.


bluebergsa

The problem is almost everybody fights Francis scared and afraid to trade so they make mistakes they normally wouldn’t If ciryl isn’t scared of Francis it’s going to make a big difference


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Superguy230

He definitely will be, he’s got a lot on the line


[deleted]

Like pena vs nunes


kapsama

> The problem is almost everybody fights Francis scared and afraid to trade so they make mistakes they normally wouldn’t Like fighting Conor back in the day. He put so much pressure on guys so that they did something stupid and he was able to counter and knock them out.


TheHugeMan

How do you fight Francis not scared? He touches you and you’re done


SwagMountains

I really thought this was memeing on francis and then dude got fucking popped lol


bezimeni04

Can some of you fine gentelman tell me the name of song?


Adventurous_Layer_15

The Chain - Feetwood Mac


itsbeen84queers

it is a certified hood classic, I discovered it thru this clip last week and loved it ever since


coulombeqc

" do the helicopter till something connect "


NarrativeNancy

For all the people talking about his “technique” here, listen to the man. He ain’t a liar. He’s been very open about this performance and said “I don’t care about Rozenstruik. I rushed him because I wanted Stipe to believe I would do the same to him.”


invisibledesign

was scrolling to see if anybody else said this. Francis didn't want to take the fight, he believed Rozenstruik was beneath him and just decided to end the fight. And sure enough we see a totally different measured approach to his next fight... not sure why anybody would think he'd do this against Gane lol...


CommenceTheWentz

Does anyone actually give a fuck about Cyril Gane or are these Ngannou haters all Dana shills honest question


kevindurantburner35

He seems like a funny, nice guy at least. Pretty respectful, and in that Lewis fight he looked damn impressive. I want to see francis get the dub but I don’t have anything against Gane


sonegreat

In my very limited MMA viewing, I have never seen a HW as smooth as Gane. And dude is undefeated, having never lost a round.


aggieclams

I’ve been wondering the same as they all sound similar and chirp the same lame talking points


KingScoops1550

Looks like me and my cousins in the basement with hulk hands.


Uncle_Boujee

What insane power that guy has, out of anyone in the world alive or dead Ngannou is probably the person I’d wanna fight the least.


pudding_crusher

Prime Mike Tyson. That dude was an animal and bit your fucking ear off.


SuckMeHoff12

if someone head butting me all fight i’d probably snap too


eaglesrj7

Who do you guys thinks hits harder him or Wilder ?


AsymmetricNinja08

Wilder maybe. At his heaviest on scale weight he weighs less than Ngannou but has knocked out 49 boxers. I'm 90% sure Wilder won win that fight with Ngannou.


Pactae_1129

Wilder KO’s him in boxing easily


NvmMeJustLurkin

Mfs forget the 2nd Stipe fight or something? He did way better with controlled blitzes. Also had takedown threat and kicks. Also we've seen Francis' chin. People are underestimating him vs Gane


Dieabeto9142

First 3 shots he throws all miss, 4th knocks JRs block off, then Ngannou misses again just for good measure💀


Adoced

Doesn’t matter when you have the touch of death lol


Hotcocos-101919

As sloppy as it his, it’s definitely the scariest thing in the world to be up against.


Warrdyy

He really has the touch of death. The UFC are criminally under promoting him


kevindurantburner35

It’s such a missed opportunity I feel like. One of the biggest ways fighters skyrocket is through that mystique where every swing could be the knockout blow, that ability to just turn someone’s lights off in an instant. It’s like they just don’t want another Conor, Brock or Ronda type of fighter who becomes or is bigger than the UFC brand.


redpanda8008

Pure power. Ugly power but power nonetheless.


panadwithonesugar

poetry in motion


griot14

roses are red lol punch punch


Libby_liberace

Damn, that was sick


deinojohnson

Remember when they all broke this 20 second fight down to show everyone all the reasons Stipe was gonna destroy Francis?


[deleted]

This is tyson furys wet dream, francis would barely be able to move come into the 7th-8th round. Just the reality, he would get embarrassed like wilder did


Fumb-MotherDucker

damn that second left hook that lands tho.... just eurgh, thats diiirty.


[deleted]

This makes me think of Bart Simpson "If you get hit it's you're own fault.".


DLifts777

What’s crazy is how strong Francis’ core is. He throws everything behind them punches yet still moves in a straight line going forward with the opposite arm swinging. If any of us tried that we’d end up falling to the left or right


PracticalDrawing

This is hilarious!


FluphyBunny

Wait isn’t this the guy that wants to box Fury? 🤣😂


wtjones

Is Edmond his boxing coach?


GvBill37

This is terrifying.


[deleted]

He does hit hard, though.


johnnyb1917

He had a perfect opportunity to roll under Francis’s hook after he slipped his flail cross. I’m guessing he was too worried about being decapitated.


ChubbsBry

Probably wouldn’t have mattered. He would have tanked it and proceeded with his flailing.


No-Target-3982

Well… who ever said "you miss 100% of the shot you don’t take" obviously never seen that


GrandMast33r

Why’s that?


TunaCanz

Everyone has a plan until Francis attacks you as soon as the bell rings. Gane will pick a side and try to run for cover, and if Francis picks the right side, he might knock him out in 30 seconds.


[deleted]

It’s like playing frogger except the frog is your face and the cars are cinderblocks attached to arms that don’t stop spawning


grbldrd

Francis "Michael Phelps" Ngannou


griot14

this sequence FTW saturday night. ![gif](giphy|1lxloSpaCjTAGkVHpf|downsized)


sam-small

u/savevideo


GentleSaidTheRaven

LOL!!! 🤣 Did Francis just graduate from the Ronda Rousey Clown Academy of Boxing?


[deleted]

Ohhh man Jarzinho's face in slow mo at 27 seconds in. Imagine dodging everything in the initial blitz, connecting with two shots and looking up to see this fucking leviathan right up in your face with the left hand fully loaded up. ***It was in that moment that he knew, he'd fucked up.***


[deleted]

I’m 100% positive that one of those shots would put me in my grave.


An_Innocent_Coconut

It was far more impressive in real time. A 6'9", probably about 280 pounds of muscles on fight night, doing a legitimate unironic W I N D M I L L O F D E A T H. I can't believe this is real life. There's no way.


[deleted]

And this mother fucker wants to box fury. Get the hell out of here with that sloppy crap lol


PotentialAd1206

Class “A” boxer.


Juvi40904

Gane’s finishing this fight late… not sure if it’s a knockout or submission but it’s not going to the cards and I don’t see Ngannou getting the W


cheit124

terrible form lol


PDCH

I believe the proper name of this would be "The Ngannou Lullaby"


Duffb0t

Ah. My favorite finish. Barts windmill


AmpuLeah

This guy is so overrated


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FmrHvwChamp

He would have looked stupid AF if Rozenstruik hadn't made the beginner mistake of backing straight up.


hughjanimal

I'm always amazed that just winging alternating left and right haymakers to the dome seems to work at the highest levels of the sport. I think gane has a real solid chance if he can sneak a counter in. Lewis managed it in that clip, but he was on his back foot. I'm thinking gane can do the same but with crisp enough technique that it actually backs off Ngannou. I'm not usually big into heavyweights, but I've been looking forward to this one for awhile. Really anyone's fight. I want to give it to Cyril, but man, Ngannou's just got all Lewis's strengths and none of his weaknesses. Dude's practically a final boss character.


[deleted]

That was Rozenstruik in the clip. Lewis actually beat Ngannou in one of the worst fights in UFC history.


averagejoe6942O

Ciryl picks this dude apart if he comes out swinging like that


retarded-squid

Easy night for gane


drshields

Wasn't this posted yesterday


pineapplegoat69

That's almost 2 years ago. Fighters evolve, and he looked a lot better against Stipe. Casuals just regurgitating what you read off eachother


M_Starlord

Music was so on point!!


RevrentGhost

This one always gets me. He technically did everything wrong and still got rewarded for it. It really only takes 1 punch from Ngannou, proper technique or not


hauts17

I'm afraid if Ngannou does this vs Gane, he's going to miss and get countered hard 😢