Was Ngannou 2021 best version of any HW EVER? Who do you favor over him?

[TheBulge]

Yeah he still does not beat a younger 245lb Stipe Miocic. The one he beat was 15 pounds lighter, several years older @ 39 and lost his head movement and foot speed, and obviously his wrestling strength. A younger mid 2010's Stipe dominates him even more.

I believe a young prime JDS at his peak full of confidence would have beaten him. Very fast explosive counter puncher with a chin of steel and heart and cardio for days.

Prime Werdum could have lured him in and subbed him.

Cain a little too chinny and hittable for my taste. DC matches up better vs Ngannou imo.

Of course, Ngannou can donkey kong KO anybody at any given moment though.

 

[mudrubble]

Prime Fedor
Prime Cain
Maybe Prime DC

Hard to be mad at this list. I could see him beating any of these guys but I could also see him losing to any of them.

 

[Blastbeat]

i wouldve LOVED to see Shane Carwin vs Ngannou. too bad their fighting careers were too many years apart.

 

[wildchild88]

No he was not lol .

And Stipe proved this in the first fight....and was close to doing in the second but got over zealous and KOed himself lol ..

Francis left the UFC at the right time probably

Ngannou controlled the second fight with Stipe, and brutally finished him.

At no point did he nearly KO himself.

 

[tucan89]

We’ve never really seen his ground game

 

[SirRealKiller]

DC would have wrestlefucked him.

Fedor would have destroyed him.

Jon Jones would destroy him to, IMO.

Cain would have beat him.