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Those fights were in 2005 and 2006.It would go like Rizzo's fights with Sergei and Roman Zentsov. Ngannou would be patient, eat a few leg kicks if he had to, then catch Pedro with a massive counter.
We still don't know that much about Ngannou, but he's nothing like an off-the-barstool Tank. He has huge power like Tank or Roy Nelson, but also has very fast hands, good reaction time and is quite technical.
Rizzo started fighting in 1996.
He beat Barnett in 2001, Arlovski in 2002 and Ricco in 2003 and arguably beat Randy the first fight in a war in 2001.
I am guessing that either the TKO loss to McGee in 2003 or the Sergei KO in 2005 combined with mileage and age knocked Pedro out of his prime somewhere between 2003 to 2005.
2003 and prior was Rizzo at his best.