Media Ngannou tried to purposely knockout UFC contender in sparring.

[13Seconds]

you should probably know what kind of person the guy you're sparring is. some people spar like that. they were paying dudes to go in there and get murdered by Mike Tyson and George Foreman. that's how they build their style, practicing brutalizing people in sparring. the same as Chute Boxe. you can't build that kind of brand of MMA without having that kind of sparring.

This guy gets it

 

[13Seconds]

I mean the guy is from fucking Dagestan for fucks sake. He means what he is saying.

To be fair Dagis pulls some bullshit in interviews all the time. Not saying Ank is lying but yeah... Always good to take their words with a pinch of salt.

 

[MrCoffee]

He has two legs, he coulda ran outta the building like I would've.

He'd gas first. You could pick your shots.

 

[13Seconds]

26,245 jimmies rustled and most of them are yours.

Everything ok at home, bud?

Why are you talking like a Disney character lol

 

[FilipEmoFights]

To be fair most of these famous drummers are on drugs especially during the height of their careers where they will be performing live daily, so they acquire some brain damage just from the party.

 

[TJ Dillashank]

hahah i always would throw jab w 100%

but not hooks and kicks like that hahah

I remember hard jabbing this MT guy and he hit me HARD with a kick to the body. But we both laughed and toned it down after that

Id love sparing the muay thai guys at range decently light as a more kickboxer myself until we hit the clinch and they remembered they don't like my kind and proceed to destroy me with knees to the body

 

[Thepaintbucket]

That's wild if true. Wonder if he signed a waiver or something

Maybe I'm wrong lol. It's from Greg Jackson's The Proving Grounds documentary. I swear that guy isn't a professional fighter

 

[omawho402]

UFC President Dana White is right about Francis not being a good guy.

 

[MRudi]

I don't believe in "light sparring," for the most part.

Unless you're working on drills, and specific combinations, sparring should be fairly intense.

No, you don't go for the KO if you wobble your sparring partner, you let him back in — but once in, then you continue to go pretty hard.

My trainer always said, "What you do repeatedly = habit-forming" ... meaning, if you want to BE for real, then you need to train for real.

For example, a professional drummer doesn't "go soft" on the drum set in practice — and then expect to go all-out in a rock concert.
(He may not go full throttle in a jam session, but he will be pretty close to it the whole time.)

Again, repetitive "softer" drills to master technique notwithstanding, you can't expect to go half-ass in sparring, and be "a fearsome killer" in the cage.

You have to practice pretty effin hard ... to be prepared to go absolutely effin hard, at your best, when it's for real.

.

 

[Zaar]

Proof?
Video?
Gifs?
Something?

 

[froggyluv]

I used to box

See thats the difference. Boxing gyms i been at -the legit hood rat ones not the center city boutiques -spar hard. They dont even know what light sparring is -just different coaching instructions for different rounds , but never soft. Thai Box gyms use alot of light styles of their kickboxing, which can be as slow as flow spar to light, to medium to hard. You got head kicks , knees and elbows here -nobody except pro-team guys take that stuff to the max. BJJ/Wrestling was always 80-100% unless you working drills. newer schools I think go alot lighter because its of a numbers/money game with slowed (make money) progression these days

 

[Reach Finesse]

getting 2 million dollar paychecks for all of your opponents does sound like the behavior of a good man

Pfl Africa still a thing?

 

[Marko Polo]

Hit piece on the guy who turned on Dana. This type of stuff would never come out about current contracted fighters

 

[biscuitsbrah]

I would have loved to see that sparring session

 

[burningspear]

ank>fury

 

[Busgosu]

Sometimes, it's good to do this as well.

In 6 years of being a gym rat, I can say I had only two "personal' wars, in the midst of a lot of intense sparring.

Both were against bigger opponents. I was 5,10", 154-160 lb.

One was with a white guy named "Lincoln," who was green, but big @ 6', 205. He was physically-gifted, intense, but green. He liked to burn all his energy in the first round, and made a lot of fellow-beginners quit.
I was the opposite, like a "poor man's" Chavez ... I would always came forward, and put steady pressure (for the first round or two), but didn't do too much — just trying to get the pule going + a read on my opponent under fire — after which I began relentless work.

Long story short, at the end of 1.5 rounds, "Lincoln" was done, quit in front of his team, and never came back to the gym again. I had humiliated him (he brought his girlfriend, in front of whom he quit )

The other was an Hispanic guy named "Harry," who was experienced, and also strapping/big @ 6'3", 185. He (like some on this thread) complained about "how hard" I went. In the opening round, the 6'3" Arroyo came right after me, at 5'10" — and within maybe two minutes — click me with a straight right, causing me to fall back, and had it not been for the ropes, I probably would've went down. (I've never been knocked-down, ever, in six years of sparring pros. That time, if the ropes weren't there, I quite possibly would have fallen.)

Still, it didn't mean shit, as I was fully-aware of what was going on. It was an immediate "gym war" — toe-to-toe exchanges, the whole bit. No one went down, no one was knocked-out. (I had some blood under my left nostril, his nose was broken, and his mouth was bleeding into his T-shirt.) It only went two rounds, because both our trainers told us to STOP — DON'T MAKE THIS PERSONAL! "Harry" and I spoke afterward, and he criticized me for "always going so hard" — and I told him, I am training to fight, not "be friends."

I also reminded him he was 5" taller than me, with a significant reach advantage, and there is no way in hell I could compete with him "boxing on the outside." I had to be willing to take three hard shots, to back him up, get him against the ropes, and try to beat TF out of him in-close — especially since he dropped me, within the first two minutes.

We shook hands and each understood the other better after that. No bad blood.

(Which was a good thing for "Harry," because I had begun to train in Gracie jujitsu at that point )

 

[SamuraiBro]

Different kinds of sparring for different purposes.

It's all about knowing beforehand what type of sparring you're going into.

Kickboxing and MT sparring are light mostly yes.

Grappling/wrestling you can go hard spar pre much every time. Just don’t slam people full force and don’t hold on to submissions too long after tap.

 

[downthepines]

Well

 

[HHJ]

Hit piece on the guy who turned on Dana. This type of stuff would never come out about current contracted fighters

It did about TJ

 

[13Seconds]

It did about TJ

Cody was outta line for posting this. Im glad he got his ass handed to him