Round-by-Round: Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou - 28th October 2023

[tonyevs]

I guess another significant question following Tyson Fury's nightmare, is if it impacts on the other Fury's riding on his coat-tails.

Does John Fury stop getting air time of being the village idiot?
Does Tommy Fury's opportunities for big money exhibitions dry up?
I seen there is mention of an exhibition with Roy Jones Jr .. as big a fan of Roy Jones Jr I was, would he & Tommy sell to the casuals and YouTube crowd?

Social media is in meltdown with Fury bashing. I think the final nail has been driven into his career/legacy coffin now.

[IRONFIST]

Stinker of a fight and obvious that Fury didn't train properly but Fury won by at least a clear point or two. He needs to get serious for Usyk otherwise it will be a UD win for Usyk.

Dangerman Zhang would destroy Ngannou inside four rounds max.

[The Gratest]

I bought the fight....and fell asleep before the main fight. I paid £22 to sleep. Nice one.

I bought it to see the Ward v Adeleye fight but planned to stay tuned for the sideshow. I watched W v A on the website but the logged out and went to log in to the app to watch the bill toppers. For some strange reason, I had to reset my password, then got asked to pay for it again. I put it down the the tech problems they'd been having with the streaming and just decided to listen to it instead.

I just discovered today that I did a typo with my email when registering and it was available to watch if I'd logged in using that email.

So i'm a twat too!

[Controversial]

Out of interest does anyone know if they were VADA tested?

[polecateddy]

Out of interest does anyone know if they were VADA tested?

Possibly this is an issue for Ngganou moving forward into mainstream boxing. He doesn’t look very natty!

[Glass Joe]

Francis Ngannou and Eddie Hearn are on.

Out of interest does anyone know if they were VADA tested?

Possibly this is an issue for Ngganou moving forward into mainstream boxing. He doesn’t look very natty!

its the only get out of Jail card that if left for Fury in this fight.

[Controversial]

Francis Ngannou and Eddie Hearn are on.

Out of interest does anyone know if they were VADA tested?

Possibly this is an issue for Ngganou moving forward into mainstream boxing. He doesn’t look very natty!

its the only get out of Jail card that if left for Fury in this fight.

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). He's the heaviest opponent Fury has fought, next closest was Chisora at 261lbs (18st 9lbs)

[polecateddy]

Francis Ngannou and Eddie Hearn are on.

Possibly this is an issue for Ngganou moving forward into mainstream boxing. He doesn’t look very natty!

its the only get out of Jail card that if left for Fury in this fight.

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). Heaviest opponent Fury has fought, next closest was Chisora at 261lbs

No wonder Fury’s patented ‘lean on them and tire them out’ technique was a fail in this fight. He doesn’t have a lot of plan B’s once his size, his faints and his power are all neutralised.

[Controversial]

Francis Ngannou and Eddie Hearn are on.



its the only get out of Jail card that if left for Fury in this fight.

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). Heaviest opponent Fury has fought, next closest was Chisora at 261lbs

No wonder Fury’s patented ‘lean on them and tire them out’ technique was fail in this fight. He doesn’t have a lot of plan B’s once his size, his faints and his power are all neutralised.

Yep, it shows how much size can play a part in a HW fight. Joe Joyce fell apart as soon as he fought someone bigger and stronger than him. Fury normally manhandles opponents as most are much lighter than him. This is probably why he's so confident against Usyk as he'd likely have a 50lb weight advantage. Ngannou too strong and just as big for him to play those games.

[polecateddy]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). Heaviest opponent Fury has fought, next closest was Chisora at 261lbs

No wonder Fury’s patented ‘lean on them and tire them out’ technique was fail in this fight. He doesn’t have a lot of plan B’s once his size, his faints and his power are all neutralised.

Yep, it shows how much size can play a part in a HW fight. Joe Joyce fell apart as soon as he fought someone bigger and stronger than him. Fury normally manhandles opponents as most are much lighter than him. This is probably why he's so confident against Usyk as he'd likely have a 50lb weight advantage. Ngannou too strong and just as big for him to play those games.

And he thought Ngganou’s mma clinches would give some edge to the boxer, but Fury got nothing. I kind of bet Zhang would just walk through Ngganou in 2-3 rounds. Probably would be a dream opponent for the Chinese boxer.

[Ezzard]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). Heaviest opponent Fury has fought, next closest was Chisora at 261lbs

No wonder Fury’s patented ‘lean on them and tire them out’ technique was fail in this fight. He doesn’t have a lot of plan B’s once his size, his faints and his power are all neutralised.

Yep, it shows how much size can play a part in a HW fight. Joe Joyce fell apart as soon as he fought someone bigger and stronger than him. Fury normally manhandles opponents as most are much lighter than him. This is probably why he's so confident against Usyk as he'd likely have a 50lb weight advantage. Ngannou too strong and just as big for him to play those games.

I know die-hards hate to admit it. I used to feel the same...

But HW boxing today is a different sport to 50 years ago when greater talents reigned. They are all a threat.

[SeanBrennan]

I bought the fight....and fell asleep before the main fight. I paid £22 to sleep. Nice one.

I bought it to see the Ward v Adeleye fight but planned to stay tuned for the sideshow. I watched W v A on the website but the logged out and went to log in to the app to watch the bill toppers. For some strange reason, I had to reset my password, then got asked to pay for it again. I put it down the the tech problems they'd been having with the streaming and just decided to listen to it instead.

I just discovered today that I did a typo with my email when registering and it was available to watch if I'd logged in using that email.

So i'm a twat too!

Bless you, hi five for the mutual twattery! We've got this *proceeds to miss the hi five*

I am from Lincolnshire so more a high six...

[big lennox]

Fascinating documentary. Mike Tyson is a very, very good trainer. I had, wrongly, it turns out, assumed that the whole thing was a gimmick and Mike Tyson's name was being used for PPV numbers. Not so. He gave Francis the best chance possible.

[NazNaci1]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). He's the heaviest opponent Fury has fought....

And it worked a treat. When Fury tried to grab and lean on him, he was able to, with one arm, using his strength, push Fury back, hold him off just enough to create enough room to swing in the right (or left) to cut and bruise him.

Fury, in the last 2 rounds was leaping into him, desperately trying to grab him around the waist and keep low as he was getting outmuscled and banged up.

[Coco]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). He's the heaviest opponent Fury has fought....

And it worked a treat. When Fury tried to grab and lean on him, he was able to, with one arm, using his strength, push Fury back, hold him off just enough to create enough room to swing in the right (or left) to cut and bruise him.

Fury, in the last 2 rounds was leaping into him, desperately trying to grab him around the waist and keep low as he was getting outmuscled and banged up.

While Ngu is obviously a strong guy and could handle Fury on the inside, I don't get why Fury just didnt control it from the outside

[The Asleep Lamps]

Francis Ngannou and Eddie Hearn are on.

Out of interest does anyone know if they were VADA tested?

Possibly this is an issue for Ngganou moving forward into mainstream boxing. He doesn’t look very natty!

its the only get out of Jail card that if left for Fury in this fight.

Thanks for posting that I am enjoying it. I watch a video sometimes at 2X speed so that a four hour video is two hours.
I don't know why Joshua vs. Wilder still cannot be made but it sounds like Eddie is seriously contemplating putting on Joshua vs Ngannou. To be clear, I like Joshua Wilder over either one of them vs Ngannou.

[margaret thatcher]

fury's tougher fights have been against a range of sizes tbh

wilder 212
cunn 210
paj 232
wallin 235
mcd 254
ngannou 272


guys like cunn and wallin did it with some quickness and craft. wilder with his missles. mcd and paj by constant pressure. ngannou with his overall strength.

how many southpaws has fury faced? it's the southpaw left that cut him so nastily vs otter

[margaret thatcher]

although it does make me lol when nostalgics act like some of the past hw champs weighing in the 180s and beating up even lighters guys makes no difference

[nfc90210]

Jack Slack has done an excellent breakdown of the fight.

https://www.fightprimer.com/how-francis ... d-the-king

[polecateddy]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). He's the heaviest opponent Fury has fought....

And it worked a treat. When Fury tried to grab and lean on him, he was able to, with one arm, using his strength, push Fury back, hold him off just enough to create enough room to swing in the right (or left) to cut and bruise him.

Fury, in the last 2 rounds was leaping into him, desperately trying to grab him around the waist and keep low as he was getting outmuscled and banged up.

While Ngu is obviously a strong guy and could handle Fury on the inside, I don't get why Fury just didnt control it from the outside

He kept flicking punches into the air but couldn’t find any openings. I take it as a sign that Fury’s speed and reaction times were well down along with his body fat being well up. I suspect he was 20-25% body fat in that fight.

[The Gratest]

Oof!
True Geordie grinding his axe.

https://x.com/TrueGeordieTG/status/1719 ... 78370?s=20

[SeanBrennan]

quite a bitter dude is that Geordie fella.

[Coco]

quite a bitter dude is that Geordie fella.

Fury did humiliate him

[SeanBrennan]

quite a bitter dude is that Geordie fella.

Fury did humiliate him

Aye, he did.

[NazNaci1]

He's a musclebound beast who is 37 years old and 272lbs (19st 6lbs). He's the heaviest opponent Fury has fought....

And it worked a treat. When Fury tried to grab and lean on him, he was able to, with one arm, using his strength, push Fury back, hold him off just enough to create enough room to swing in the right (or left) to cut and bruise him.

Fury, in the last 2 rounds was leaping into him, desperately trying to grab him around the waist and keep low as he was getting outmuscled and banged up.

While Ngu is obviously a strong guy and could handle Fury on the inside, I don't get why Fury just didnt control it from the outside

Fair point, Coco. Especially given that is was Fury initiating the clinches and getting outmuscled. I guess he thought it would work, as it did on Wilder and maybe an overconfidence in his size and weight.

You know yourself, its easier said than done but we are talking about the Heavyweight Champ vs a Novice, so like you, a bit perplexed by it all.