UFC heavyweight Francis N’Gannou lost his UFC 226 co-main event bout to Derrick Lewis in what can be described as an historically bad fight. However, in a post-fight Instagram post, N’Gannou admitted he carried the ‘fear’ of his previous loss to Stipe Miocic into Saturday’s contest. That means there might be corner issues at play that are worth examination.
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2018-07-11
Trump Effect.
Luke are you actually suggesting Ngannou should not have gone out for the 4th and 5th round against Stipe? Thats absolutely rubbish. Francis was just tired in that fight. …not like he was really getting beat up like that. He was just tired. No responsible corner would have stopped that fight especially if you have a puncher like Ngannou that could have connected with a punch at anytime and end the fight
The pay structure is A root cause of some of these issues. Fighters only getting 10k and 10k ,for instance, not only need that money to continue to grow fully, but deserve to know exactly how much they are walking away with. Performance bonuses should be the only bonuses publicly announced.
Corners would be a little more inclined to think of the future of the fighter if they know they are not going to be fucking things financially, getting the L and the things that go with that.
Why do people act like Francis is young? the guy is 32.
Francis is not a fighter. He's a guy that beats people up. There's a difference. He's too fucking green. This anxiety is something that you overcome as a young fighter. He's experiencing it at the highest level. He'll either quit or come back stronger.
Francis needs to drop down to the development league. Fight some cans, get his confidence up.
Eye pokes helped DC a lot but stipe is still chiny
At least conor doesn't eye poke to win
I think he should go back to libya.
Yeah it's kinda like saying Generals know best when to go to war.