Francis Ngannou Vs Anthony Johnson

[GetSmoked]

It's true. I don't know why you're surprised? LHW fighters tend to be more athletic than HW fighters.

 

[Where you at Georges?]

This thread is so black my iPhone is working faster

 

[beater81]

We may fight out next year with Rumble coming out of retirement.

 

[Emjay]

I don't think Rumble's power translates, otherwise he should have easily KO'd Arlovski.

Which is more impressive? Snapping a guys jaw or KO'ing him?

 

[Emjay]

Rumble said they sparred a while back and ol' Franky hit him pretty good in the nose region.

 

[JKS]

My money would be on Francis. More accustomed to HW, I don't know good and effective Rumble will be at HW moving up and after a long lay off.

 

[KORMAN]

AJ fought Arlovski and mentioned after the fight that the HW guys hit way too hard for his liking.

LHW was the perfect weight class for him. He was just unlucky to be around at the same time as DC and Jones.

I believe he'd beat Jones, but DC was just a bad matchup for him. He even said DC's a worse stylistic matchup than Jones, because of their body type, and fighting style.

Jones is more cerebral, and gives you chances to land on him, and likes the kickboxing range, whereas DC will go head to chest on you from the opening bell, and his stand up defense with boxing and head movement is better than Jon's.

 

[Madmick]

It's true. I don't know why you're surprised? LHW fighters tend to be more athletic than HW fighters.

 

[blaseblah]

Which is more impressive? Snapping a guys jaw or KO'ing him?

Getting a KO. Especially when the jaw was broken after the round had already ended.

 

[KORMAN]

It's true. I don't know why you're surprised? LHW fighters tend to be more athletic than HW fighters.

Yep, that's the advantage he'd have in this fight, which is his speed and possibly his conditioning. We saw in the Arlovski fight how much faster he was than Arlovski, and how he was able to beat him to the punch, and land much quicker than he could react.

But, Francis is pretty quick himself for his size, and might be able to take rumbles shots. But rumble also has a nice chin, and he has the advantage of being a better kicker, and being able to fight from kickboxing range.

Francis does have a nice leg kick, but he hasn't really shown variety in his kicks, and having a good kicking game.

In the end, I'd still favor Francis, but just pointing out where rumble can find success.

 

[Emjay]

Especially when the jaw was broken after the round had already ended.

That's the time keepers fault

 

[nebulousned]

Ngannou for sure.

6'4, longer, a natural HW

 

[pookiyama]

Rumble fought at HW and barely beat Arvloski... Where Ngannou destroyed him in round one....

Also Rumble trains bodybuilding which converts all that Knockout power, Fast twitch, TypeIIB fibers into more slower TypeIIA typed Fast twitch fibers, But also they dont fatigue as easy since they use oxygen for their energy.

Either way.. Ngannou easily.

But, you also train your muscles to not do fast explosive movements, which gas them even quicker when you utilize them in that manner.

 

[PAPERCLIP30]

Rumble’s gonna look terrible at hw.

I don’t know why some people love that division