How does Gane handle Ngannous blitz?

He has to circle towards the power hand, take his time getting started (really feel francis out) and when he does he should jump into the center of the cage and start swinging at francis. Take two to give one mentality and I think he walks out of there with the belt around his waist.

Having a stressful week at work and this made me lol on my break which I needed. Thank you for that.
 
Small cage and guys being that big it's to counterpunch. Running away is bad defense, evading is good, but it's tough to find space to avoid Ngannou.
 
That clip is absolutely ridiculous. Rogan actually said it well for once: Ngannou knows he has a bazooka and you only have a pistol. Life ain't fair and even highly experienced kickboxers with solid technique can't completely avoid getting touched.
 
Gane is bigger than the other dudes Francis has fought. That extra range combined with his great footwork should allow him to just spam boring jabs all night long.

People act as if Francis vs Blackbeast never happened.
 
That doesn't effect your per min output at all. Actually fighters than end fights quick tend to have a much higher strikes per min. Gane fights at a higher pace. If Ngannou trys to fight a high pace, he is far more likely to gas than Gane is
Yes but the point is that's at a pace Gane is comfortable in. I'm not talking about a pace with his comfort level. When you are exchanging power shots, it's higher intensity, which means it requires less strikes to burn you out. That type of fight will burn out Gane faster because that's not his style of fighting. That's why he avoids the inside game. He's a pick your shots counter striker from the outside. He fights long to mid range and exits out to dance around while you try to catch him. Since most at HW have no footwork/movement it works for him. He can fight like that all day, change the intensity and style of fight and he'll gas.
 
That clip is absolutely ridiculous. Rogan actually said it well for once: Ngannou knows he has a bazooka and you only have a pistol. Life ain't fair and even highly experienced kickboxers with solid technique can't completely avoid getting touched.
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Angles and footwork! Francis can't unload the way he did against frozenstruik unless he has Gane absolutely pinned against the fence, and even then, expect Gane to use his muy thai skills to get to the clinch and neutralize threats (Unless he's already badly hurt lol).
 
Yes but the point is that's at a pace Gane is comfortable in. I'm not talking about a pace with his comfort level. When you are exchanging power shots, it's higher intensity, which means it requires less strikes to burn you out. That type of fight will burn out Gane faster because that's not his style of fighting. That's why he avoids the inside game. He's a pick your shots counter striker from the outside. He fights long to mid range and exits out to dance around while you try to catch him. Since most at HW have no footwork/movement it works for him. He can fight like that all day, change the intensity and style of fight and he'll gas.

Gane is not a counter striker, he pushes the pace and is never on his back-foot unless he is exiting. The pace he fights at is what has allowed him to win every single round of his professional career. Ngannou does not have the stamina to fight at a pace set by Gane for more than a round which is why some believe Gane will win the fight. No one has any illusion that he is the more powerful striker.

A major part of Ganes game is the inside game. Every single fight of his UFC career he has forced his opponents back to the octagon wall towards the end of the first and second round, clinched, and proceeded to drape his weight over the arms of his opponent to facilitate the buildup of lactic acid. Gane does not fight at mid-range, boxing range, until he no longer perceives a threat from his opponent. Mid range is where Ngannou wants the fight at because it is where he is able to land the counter-shot KOs which he has built his reputation as a knockout artist off of.

Ngannous path to victory is intelligently forcing exchanges at mid-range because that is where he can hit Gane and land counters. Allowing Gane to spam leg kicks from long-range and then clinch him when he enters inside-range is how all of his opponents fall out of fights with him.
 
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jab in the face will deflate a blitz
 
gane is quick enough to run away and has the cardio to do it all night. his standup skills are also better

the issue is ngannou only has to land once .
 
The same way Lewis and Stipe did.

Francis is going to blow his load real quick and get ktfo.
 
As a kickboxer, gane would likely teep nganmou if he tried to bull rush him with windmill punches as he did against rozenstruik. But I don't think he would use that tactic against gane - it worked against rozenstruik but that was probably the only time he ever tried it. I suspect something about rozenstruik's movement away from his initial attempted power shot caused ngannou to decide on the spot to continue throwing power punches at him. It would not be likely he will repeat this against gane who is much more agile and has such assured and confident movement.
 
Gane is not a counter striker, he pushes the pace and is never on his back-foot unless he is exiting. The pace he fights at is what has allowed him to win every single round of his professional career. Ngannou does not have the stamina to fight at a pace set by Gane for more than a round which is why some believe Gane will win the fight. No one has any illusion that he is the more powerful striker.

A major part of Ganes game is the inside game. Every single fight of his UFC career he has forced his opponents back to the octagon wall towards the end of the first and second round, clinched, and proceeded to drape his weight over the arms of his opponent to facilitate the buildup of lactic acid. Gane does not fight at mid-range, boxing range, until he no longer perceives a threat from his opponent. Mid range is where Ngannou wants the fight at because it is where he is able to land the counter-shot KOs which he has built his reputation as a knockout artist off of.

Ngannous path to victory is intelligently forcing exchanges at mid-range because that is where he can hit Gane and land counters. Allowing Gane to spam leg kicks from long-range and then clinch him when he enters inside-range is how all of his opponents fall out of fights with him.
No wrong. Gane is a counter puncher. His only real offense is a jab and some leg kicks while waiting for a strike to counter while he dances on the outside. That's why he doesn't have much output overall and his fights are slow paced. Because he's waiting on the outside most of the time. You don't have to counter a strike to be a counter striking style of fighter. If the strike doesn't come he'll pick his shots. This is why his fights go to decision most of the time. He fights like Wonderboy, on the outside and bounces around and picks his shots and looks for shots to counter. No one looks at Wonderboy as a pressure forward fighter. Both of them both stay away from the inside game, Gane's game isn't on the inside that's why he avoids it in all his UFC fights. He'll go on the inside if he has someone hurt or they are tired, but not anytime before that. All other times he'll avoid it any way he can.
 
Gane has really good movement for a HW and has great judgment on distance in striking. He'll make it look easy. Ngannou isn't ready.
 
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