P4P nice Demetrious Johnson believes Anthony Joshua may beat Francis Ngannou within the ring and the cage.
On Friday (March 8), ‘The Predator’ stepped contained in the squared circle for the second time in his profession to tackle the WBC’s top-ranked contender, Anthony Joshua. Following a critically acclaimed efficiency towards Tyson Fury in October, battle followers had been anxious to see what Ngannou may do towards one of many heavyweight division’s heaviest hitters. It took us lower than two rounds to search out out.
After sitting Ngannou down not as soon as, however twice with a few stable straight rights, Joshua blasted the previous UFC champion with a vicious proper hook that instantly rendered Ngannou unconscious, sending him violently crashing to the canvas.
Following the competition, followers and fighters had lots to say, however maybe the most well liked take from former UFC and present ONE flyweight world champion Demetrious Johnson. Talking on his YouTube channel, ‘Mighty Mouse’ urged that Anthony Joshua — who has by no means as soon as competed in blended martial arts — would ship the same end result ought to the 2 titans run it again in MMA sometime.
“Does Anthony Joshua beat Francis Ngannou in an MMA battle? I believe he does and right here’s the rationale why — I believe it will simply be one other placing match,” Johnson mentioned. “AJ understands his distance. He has higher fingers than Francis and he could make make Francis whiff and miss once more. Except Francis goes to vary his techniques and clinch him and wrestle him… However AJ could be very athletic. He’s smaller and extra limber. I believe he’d be capable of stuff the shot and provides it to Francis Ngannou.”
After Loss to Anthony Joshua, Francis Ngannou Heads again to MMA the place 6’8″ monster Renan Ferreira awaits
Anticipated to make his Good Cage debut later this yr, Ngannou has beforehand spoken a couple of crossover conflict with boxing star Deontay Wilder beneath the PFL banner. However first, ‘The Predator’ must cope with 6’8″ Renan Ferreira — winner of the 2023 PFL heavyweight event.
Final month, Ferreira scored a surprising 21-second knockout of Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader within the PFL vs. Bellator headliner. Because of this, he would be the man to welcome Ngannou again to the world of MMA.
