Ngannou won’t lose again until someone with a Diamond tier chin fights him

...HW looking so terrible, it won’t be popular but trying to outpoint him will only get him walked down and KO’d. <CanYouSeeMeNow>
I really believe that you are wrong here, however everybody has his opinion. Time will tell. Hope he fights soon and stops waiting for Jones.

Gane will soon be Champion outpointing Lewis and Ngannou 50-45
WAR HWs!
 
Top tier Sherdog analysis:

"In order to beat the puncher, your chin must be able to take his shots".

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He can lose again. He can still get caught in a submission, gas and get outpointed or even knocked out. It's the HWs baby. Having said that, it's not going to be easy or likely for awhile. Dude gives out traumatic brain injuries like candy on halloweeen.
 
This is an absolute shit take but Lewis doesn’t have the chin required to brawl with him
nether does Gane. Now he has enough wrestling under his belt to have above average TDD, the only option is to stand toe to toe with him and either be slick enough to outpost him(heavy doubt) or force him to respect you and have a chin good enough to make him pay for everything he throws.

Not MMA but until someone replicates the Holyfield formula, Mr.Ngannou won’t be beaten again. With HW looking so terrible, it won’t be popular but trying to outpoint him will only get him walked down and KO’d. <CanYouSeeMeNow>

He's very hard to beat now imo. He learnt his lesson from the first fight with Stipe. Remember, Stipe ducked and covered for a round until Ngannou blew his gas tank. From round 2 he was so gassed he could not fight. Even then Stipe could not hurt him and Stipe looked more busted up after the fight. The way to beat him is what Cain tried. Wrestle him till he gasses.
 
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There is only one hw out there with a diamond tier chin, the Cabbage! Think he is retired though.
 
Or someone with enough striking and wrestling skills to avoid getting hit too cleanly by his punches and put him on his back, like Stipe did in the first match. Or when he faces someone with equivalent power and the match turns into a staring contest. Until he proves he can beat Lewis there's always that question about big Frank

I think the best chance anyone has to beat ngannou is to either stay away from him and outpoint him in a decision or to be such a good Wrestler and grappler that he can take him down and keep him from getting up and submit him. Getting into the pocket with him is a bad idea because sooner or later he will land a punch and no fighter we have seen so far in the ufc heavyweight division was able to take his punches.
 
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There is only one hw out there with a diamond tier chin, the Cabbage! Think he is retired though.

Unfortunately for gane so far the closest contender for suchba chin is ngannou himself. Rozenstruik's punches had no significant effect on ngannou at all.
 
I can see Francis getting ko by a heavy hitter when he comes in swinging wildly.
Except he doesn't usually swing wildly at all but he ko most of his opponents through world class precise and superb timing and countering ability.
 
Well, instead of cherrypicking fights, we can instead look at his six UFC fights; half of which he finished his opponent in.

The three opponents he did not finish were Tanner Boser, Jairzinho, and Alexander Volkov.

Gane had only four MMA fights to his name when he fought Tanner Boser; who he was a minute or so away from finishing due to accumulated damage when time ran out. The third round of this fight was a 10-8 on every judges scorecard because Boser was about to be finished. Boser also both moves and has significantly better cardio than Francis Ngannou.

Jairzinho is a very heavy hitter, with good cardio, that was refusing to engage with Gane. His significant strikes were in the single digits for three of the five rounds. He also has power that carries to the fifth round as we saw against Overeem. Gane was piecing Jairzinho up at range, so there was neither opportunity nor value in finishing the fight which was a shutout from start to finish. Also, when Gane did enter to try to take Jairzinho down and submit him, he was getting elbowed in the back of the head; so he wisely stopped trying.

Alexander Volkov has been knocked out twice in his forty-two fight career, it takes special power that Gane does not possess to finish him, as he is not a fighter who can be KOd due to fatigue like Francis Ngannou.

Francis landed two significant strikes in the last three rounds of his first fight with Stipe. He had absolutely no energy and any fresh fighter would have knocked him out; the problem was Stipe was not only not fresh but nearly as exasperated as Ngannou. While Stipe may have been the slightly fresher fighter and thus why he won, he was completely fatigued and incapable of finishing anyone.

A fighter like Gane whose output only increases as the fight goes on will have absolutely no problem finishing a fatigued fighter.

Miocic neutralised ngannou in their first fight by taking him down repeatedly and keeping him down and hitting him while he was on the ground. It was not through fatigue that caused miiocic not to ko him but because even though ngannou was tired out from being outwrestled he didn't dare to engage him in the pocket at any point because ngannou retained fight ending power at all times. It is also necessary to point out that nganou never stopped trying to fight off the ground game to the end of the fight though he was tired so the heart is not in question either.

Gane would be literally taking his life in his hands if he were try to trade with ngannou even in the 5th round. His best strategy is to use his evasiveness and quickness and stay away from ngannou and never enter the pocket and target the lead leg with calf kicks. Take pot shots at him throughout the fight and outwork him but never let him corner him. Don't try to take him down because gane isn't good enough at that game with ngannou's improved tdd.
 
This is an absolute shit take but Lewis doesn’t have the chin required to brawl with him
nether does Gane. Now he has enough wrestling under his belt to have above average TDD, the only option is to stand toe to toe with him and either be slick enough to outpost him(heavy doubt) or force him to respect you and have a chin good enough to make him pay for everything he throws.

Not MMA but until someone replicates the Holyfield formula, Mr.Ngannou won’t be beaten again. With HW looking so terrible, it won’t be popular but trying to outpoint him will only get him walked down and KO’d. <CanYouSeeMeNow>


Its heavyweight MMA

He could fight Lewis and just happen to get bombed out of the blue in the first exchange thrown.
 
Or someone with enough striking and wrestling skills to avoid getting hit too cleanly by his punches and put him on his back, like Stipe did in the first match. Or when he faces someone with equivalent power and the match turns into a staring contest. Until he proves he can beat Lewis there's always that question about big Frank

He’s not the same fighter as in the first Stipe fight. That won’t work.
 
Except he doesn't usually swing wildly at all but he ko most of his opponents through world class precise and superb timing and countering ability.

Sure buddy.
 
I think a younger Brock Lesnar type could beat him. I am not sold he could stop a guy his size with legit takedowns from taking him down.

I think if Jones ever fights him he probably gets him down and finishes him if he doesn't get ktfo first.
 
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