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
TITO ORTIZ WOULD SMOKE BOTH OF THESE FOOLS..
What are you saying compa
so fear is what will be used for fixed fights?
I think people are being to hard on Francis. Dana 1 event is like he's a human Transformer with laser beams for hands. The next event he's like Francis is piece of shit with a big ego. This guy just started 5 years ago not knowing anything about MMA. He lived in countries not known for MMA. He just learned that he had a super punch and was just winging it from there. I think he was comfortable and trusted his team from France, but they didn't know that much about MMA and didn't know how important it was for him to learn grappling. He lost his confidence. Dana should give him some cans and just tell him to go out there and swing. He probably has his whole family counting on him and he doesn't know what to do or who to trust. He still is very talented.
Hindsight arm chair quarterbacking.
Rhonda had a bad corner by the end
Physically Ngannou looked really good. Very light on his feet, lighter, fast and athletic. He was doing all the right things EXCEPT engaging. Trash performance don't get me wrong but it's not about the Stipe fight and the corner it's about his connection to the corner and what they are saying. They are yes men. Not once did i see his corner slapping him around in the 2nd and 3rd and telling him to engage
Can you tone down the angry intensity a bit and sound more like a normal person?
If a fighter wants out, they can tap out. The corner will only intervene in extreme cases.
I said during the fight the ref should've stopped it, he wasn't fighting back at all in the later rounds and should've been stopped as a tko.