On January 22, 2022, Beijing time, francis Ngannou, the current UFC heavyweight champion and Cameroon boxer, said in an interview with reporters that he plans to play a crossover boxing match with the current WBC heavyweight world boxing champion Tyson Fury after playing the UFC 270 tournament.
Francis Naganno made the above statement in a pre-UFC270 interview, telling reporters: "If I beat Cyril Gayne on Sunday, let me choose whether to go to Tyson Fury or go to play Jon Jones, I will definitely choose Tyson Fury. Because I'm now a heavyweight champion at the UFC, there's no opponent for me in the heavyweight and no one is going to pay attention to my game with Jon Jones. I don't even know how Jon Jones is now, whether he can still fight me, I don't dare bet all the chips on him. ”
"A lot of people know that I dreamed of becoming a professional boxer since I was a child, but then I found that MMA was more suitable for me. But I didn't give up my dream of being a professional boxer, and I always wanted to play some professional boxing before my MMA career was over. I think sometimes professional boxers underestimate the strength of mMA boxers. Not to tell you that there are a lot of people who think I can easily beat Tyson Fury, and of course some people say that he can easily beat me. Still, I agree with most people that it will be a tie-breaker. ”
As of this writing, the UFC 270 issue has not yet been held, but the author still boldly predicts that Francis Nagano, who is the ceiling of the UFC's large-level strike system, should successfully defeat his opponent to defend his title in the game. But to be honest, the author is not optimistic about his participation in professional boxing. There are three main reasons for this:
One. Francis Nagano's boxing skills were poor
At present, in the professional boxing world, many boxers have been training in boxing since they were about ten years old. Basically in their teens, they have begun to participate in amateur competitions frequently and have begun to develop their own style.
However, when Francis Nagano was ten years old, he began working in a quarry in Batier, Cameroon, missing the best time to start boxing.
By the time Francis Nagano traveled to France illegally at the age of 26 to realize his dream of professional boxing, he was a boxing enthusiast. His martial arts coach, Fernandez Lopez, after a period of contact, saw that Francis Nagano was not the material for professional boxing at all, so he tried to play mixed martial arts matches.
Although Francis Nagano is currently thriving in the mixed martial arts arena, his boxing skills are not comparable to those of professional boxers who have been fighting in professional boxing for more than a decade, not to mention that Tyson Fury is the most comprehensive and excellent boxer in professional boxing heavyweight technology in the past five or six years.
Two. Francis Nagano does not have the physical reserves to play professional boxing
Friends who are familiar with professional boxing know that professional boxing has high requirements for the physical reserves of boxers. Because because boxers need to complete 12 rounds of matches in high-intensity confrontations. Each professional boxer starts with a 4-round match and then gradually starts playing 6 rounds, 10 rounds, and finally 12 rounds.
Francis Nagano, who is not a professional boxer, has not played standard boxing matches, and he has not played the entire game with his opponents in the UFC ring. So if he were to participate in a formal boxing match, I suspect he would be dragged to death by experienced opponents using footwork and control of the rhythm.
Three. Compared to Tyson Fury, the gap in strength is huge
The first two articles I said are Francis Nagano's own problems, let's analyze it from the perspective of Francis Nagano's opponent.
Although many boxing fans believe that the current professional boxing world, especially the heavyweights, cannot be compared with the golden age of the 80s and 90s of the last century. Today's top boxers such as Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, and Deonta Wilder are no match for the four kings of the year, Mike Tyson, Evand Hollyfield, Ridick Bowe, and Lennolx Lewis.
But there's no denying that Tyson Fury is truly the best boxer in the professional boxing heavyweight class today. Especially after defeating Deonta Wilde in a brutal TKO way twice in a row and defending the title of World Champion boxer, Tyson Fury no longer has obvious shortcomings in terms of technique, strength and mobility. In the presence of Tyson Fury, Francis Nagano can only be regarded as a beginner. A metaphor can be used to describe the gap between the two in the boxing ring, if Tyson Fury is a ph.D. graduating, then Francis Nagano can only be regarded as a middle school student who has just entered junior high school.
In summary, there is really no reason for me to be optimistic about Francis Nagano competing in professional boxing against Tyson Fury. I believe that if such a competition is held, Francis Nagano will not expect to achieve any good results except for a huge income.
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