Francis Ngannou cracks Curtis Blaydes with a right hand 30 seconds into the first round and finishes him with some big shots on the ground.
Posted Feb 17, 2019, 8:23 AM UTC
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Imagine how painful it must be for Blaydes, thinking you have improved majorly over the last years and that you are finally world class, ready for the title, just to be brutally knocked out by the same guy again
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Worse. He didn't get knocked out the first time it was a doctor's stoppage. He was doing ok otherwise
Edit- by doing well I'm mean not being ko'd in the first like everyone else
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his takedowns were getting stuffed and he got his face punched in so hard it looked like he was having an alllergic attack
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Funniest part of that was when the doctor covered his good eye and asked him how many fingers he was holding up, and Blaydes tried to reach out to feel them
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This made me laugh because I tried to cheat on an eye test once.
I was getting my driver's license and I looked through the view finder to read off the string of numbers and missed an entire row because my left eye has poor depth perception and peripheral vision.
So I tried to look through the view finder with my right eye while the guy wasn't looking but he caught me as I was moving my head back.
Long story short, I had to get a doctor to say that I'm not going to maim anyone on the road before I could get a license.
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Except for the bombs Ngannou landed. Each hits literally sent Blaydes flying in their first fight.
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Knocked out by what everyone at the time had assumed was a massive hype job. This is just after Lewis v Ngannou.
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Post-op cyclops will have to wait another few years for a rematch
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Dana said this was an early stoppage... Pretty sure Dana still angry at Francis
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Since Yamasaki is gone every other fight is an early stoppage, according to the losing fighter.
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Wait, that's right. What happened to Yamasaki?!
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Some were bitching about late stoppages, now everyone's bitching about early stoppages
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It's not bitching about late stoppages, there is a reason "let her be a warrior" is a meme. He sucked at stoppages.
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Just get Mario back refereeing all those guys bitching about early stoppages.
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I remember a good few people at the time thinking this was an early stoppage, I had to wonder what fight they were watching. The first punch faceplanted Blaydes and he was dropped to his knees twice more after that. And that was with Goddard almost rushing in too early and putting his hand on Ngannou's back, which could have put him off.
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Seriously. If someone gets dropped 3 times in ten seconds they can't complain about the stoppage.
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TJ Dillashaw says hello.
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And when it was stopped, Blaydes was on his knees with Ngannou over him just continuing to throw down bombs. No need for him to take any more damage at that point.
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I just wanna point out that if anybody says the last superfight was an early stoppage, but this one isn't, you're a big hypocrite.
And if this is a good stoppage, then the Lando vs Ferguson fight also should have been stopped in the first.
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It should have been Tony was literally dieing all over the place.
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Tony recovered though, and was moving unlike Curtis who was staying still on his knees taking bombs
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He was trying to stand up...and he did. He just got dropped again immediatly after.
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What Conor has with precision, Ngannou has with power/speed. absolutely insane. Like his hands are so explosive I don't see how he can't win a belt one day
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Yeah his power has been memed to death cuz of the stupid Ford Escort thing, but it is seriously insane. He probably is the hardest hitter in MMA history. Blaydes is 260 with a granite chin, Hunt caught him ducking facefirst into an overhand right and it didn't even drop him. Look at all these power shots he took from Hunt, and he recovered and went on to win a lopsided decision. And Ngannou dropped him with a smaller shot in their first fight, and faceplanted him with a missile in their second fight. Look at how he had Stipe's head lolling around on his neck with a flick of his wrist with shoulders square, while backing up, with one foot off the ground.
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He's capable of pretty scary hand speed too.
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Worry intensifies
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Love that slide at the end. Franny is fer sure a b-b-b-beast of an athlete.
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Blaydes took a fucking Overeem knee flush and still survived. The Ngannou bomb is too strong
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I deem it the Ngannuke 💥
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Can we get Francis Ngannuke flair if he KOs Cain?
Edit: It happened so... Please?
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Yup, and again, relative to the famous Hunto, look what that Reem knee can do. Blaydes is a beast, and Ngannou is even more of a beast.
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It’s all about where he hit Blaydes too tho, right behind the ear. Doesn’t need to be super powerful when you hit there.
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He refuses to practice wrestling/jits because of his ego he will never touch a belt
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Lmao don't believe everything Joe Rogan said after the Stipe fight. He trains with some of the best judokas in the world, and world level African wrestlers. He's got multiple wins by sub.
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He has openly admitted he doesn’t train wrestling or jiujitsu tho. I listen to rogan but i’m not sure what comments of his your referring to.
Sound like an Ngannou fan to me trying to say he’s more then just a power puncher
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Link? Because I am pretty sure he’s a black belt
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Precision>Power
Timing>Speed
EDIT: The fuck! Downvote me for a Conor meme
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There isn't a heavyweight with Conor-like precision or timing so i think Ngannou (not Francis) will do OK
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I mean stipe has a pretty clean right hand
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Just wait for that Jones train to roll through.
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Ngannou would kill jon
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Shovelling sand > PEDs
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Why not both? Shovelling sand on PEDs
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"Sucks to have it stolen from me" Blaydes said at the post-fight press conference. "I worked my butt off, I'm so much better than that. It would be nice to actually get the chance to show it. It's a rematch. I've improved so much and you're gonna stop the fight like that? I'm on a single leg. He says, 'Show me something.' I said, 'I'm okay.' I'm on a single leg in a scramble, he stops punching, he's defending a single leg and you're gonna stop the fight? It's just ridiculous, man. It's pretty pathetic that I have better knowledge than that ref."
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Fooled me! Appropriate meme. I was like "why am I reading this in tj's voice... oh"
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TJ saying "He says show me something, I said I'm okay" is so sad and hilarious.
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Very sad.
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Very legal and very cool in my opinion.
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I watched blaydes rise since his first loss to ngannou. This really made me sad.
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Blaydes should comeback from it, he lost to a killer it happens
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Esp at 265.
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After this fight half the sub was hating on Blaydes and I don't even know why.
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There never was no right hand. It was the left straight that got him. Watch his head torque on that first punch
edit: this is the best angle actually, you can see the left land. https://gfycat.com/RepentantWelcomeDavidstiger insanely fast punch even in slow motion.
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Wow I never noticed that
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Holy shit. This is the first time I see it actually. That's a blitzing left-hand indeed. Although the right one landed on the inside of his arm, it produced enough torque to topple the staggered Blaydes.
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Also, if you watch the clip with audio, you can hear the crack from the left a split second before the right actually lands.
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This explains a lot for me. I knew Ngannou had insane power but I had a hard time understanding how the right hand dropped him like that, it didn’t seem possible to get that much power in a punch like that. Turns out it might now be.
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Wait what the fuck? This should be the main post
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Incredible eye, I'd never noticed or heard it mentioned.
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Is this a joke? That isn't even a left straight
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left jab, whatever
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Is this not a lefthook overhand right? What? And there is a right hand, you can hear it bonk Curtis on the head as it lands. It doesn’t land well, it’s mainly wrist to palm, but it’s 258 lbs of wrist to palm. I do not think that left is what did the damage, especially with what little torque he put into it.
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Slow it down and pause it. I don't think the right even lands. It seems to bounce off his shoulder. Can you isolate any frame which shows the right landing?
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This one right here , he lands with palm/wrist over the top of Curtis’ jab and Curtis slumps in line with where the force of the punch connected. It hits and hurts.
Edit: that screenshot was a real bitch to get on mobile lol
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Curtis got dropped 3 times and ate every shot after the second drop, he also didnt put up any resistant except one (failed) attempt to grab Francis leg. This stoppage was a bit late in my opinion.
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Yeah how are people, including Dana, saying it was an early stoppage? The exact same sequence happened three times where Ngannou would hit him on the head and Blaydes would literally get knocked down. What would be the appropriate stoppage? Let it happen two more times? Five? You have to draw the line some where. I think people are calling out refs for late stoppages recently due to the fighter appearing to be "with it" once the fight is over. But you can't compare a fighter's complete lack of "defending intelligently" to how he appears once the fight is called. It's not fair to the ref.
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I remember me and my buddies talking about how the stoppage was slightly early immediately after the fight.. Looking back now I get a sense that Ngannou would have actually killed blaydes if he had a chance
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Still defending himself more intelligently than TJ.
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That jump at the end , your heard the sound of 260lbs landing
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This is the closest thing in existence to footage of the Jussie Smollett attack
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It's not easy to recognize just looking at the video, how hard these punches actually are. One, two knocks from this guy and your brain literally wobbles.
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That right hand was so damn fast
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https://gfycat.com/RepentantWelcomeDavidstiger
was actually the left. incredibly fast punch from Ngannou
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The right overhand def connected afterwards on the temple tho
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Yeah I see both punches land this is just the same clip but slowed down
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No idea why you would be down voted for posting the GIF at a speed that makes it easier to see what happens. Reddit is an interesting place sometimes.
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Huh TIL. This angle definitely makes it look like the right did not land at all. Just took Bladyes off even more off balance because he was shook from the straight left.
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Oh shit, it was...
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How long was he gonna wait to stop the fight.
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IKR. And yet people were saying at the time the stoppage was early.
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I mean, it can still be an early stoppage even if the fight would’ve only lasted a few more seconds.
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It’s not even technique in those punches t just looks primitive of him clubbing someone
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Blaydes looking around like wtf bro I wanted to die today
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A lot of people said before this fight that Dana was throwing Ngannou under the bus for fighting Blaydes. I just see the UFC still trying to build Francis.
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What knocked Blaydes out? I slowed it down and it just looked like Ngannou grazed his head.
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If a Ford Escort at full speed grazes your head, this what happens.
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Think it was the left before the right that hit the back of his head. That spot right behind the ear is one the best spots to hit too so even it grazing can ko someone.
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Worry for Cain intensifies
Similar to the first JDS/Cain fight.
I think Cain knows better than to stand and trade with this man.
I think Curtis blayde thought the same thing then a glancing blow went through his guard and hit the reset button
I doubt he "thought the same thing". Francis' last 2 fights were against Lewis and Stipe, and Curtis always tries to strike with his opponents before failing miserably and going back to his gameplan after he gets rocked twice every fight.
Curtis is a great wrestler and he only had 30 seconds. I doubt he’d try and strike with Francis, especially after already being in there with him before.
This is what scares me the most, Curtis hand his hands up and Francis still cracked over the head with it. The only defense against his strikes is not being there
Should have had it out a little further.
If nothing else, he knows not to do what Curtis did here. Dude jumped straight into the pocket, down the middle, with a shitty shovel jab. Of course you'll get countered over the top like that.
Lol
Cain fought prime JDS who in my opinion was more scary than ngannou coz he could lunch hard while was insanely quick as well.
So Cain should know what to do.
But he's almost hendo tier in terms of his body at this point so maybe it's not enough
francis is far better and not being pressured than JDS is. JDS always got walked to the fence in all his fights even the ones he wins handily. like the Tai fight. he won that but he was still getting walked to the fence and cracked. Francis is good at standing his ground and punching back against pressure he did it alot in the first curtis fight
He said prime JDS.
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The Lewis fight looked like a 15 min low level anxiety attack.
Not enough panic to make him turtle up and rock back and forth, but too much panic to let him do anything he would usually do in a fight.
I'm somewhat of an authority on anxiety, I'm rarely not anxious, so that is my diagnosis.
I was relieved for his sake that he seemed to have slayed his demons in his last time out. I can see him getting worried for Cain though. With Blaydes he had the emotional benefit of having beat him before, so Cain is probably a bigger challenge to him.
I don't really care who wins, but I hope that N'gannou shows up and not Francis
A good ol Reddit psychologist
Howww do I reeeach these heavyyyyweightsss???
I mean Francis himself came out after the fight and said it was fear
I think the Lewis fight was down to the game plan that he had, he probably mostly prepared for counter-striking since Lewis is a heavy hitter but Lewis did the same thing. Also the Stipe fight showed to Francis that he wasn’t untouchable IMO, he took some pretty good hits during that which probably encouraged him even more to be defensive.
Ngannou admitted after the Lewis fight that he was terrified to make another mistake and it made him overly hesitant. Then he caught so much heat from that that I guess he realized he couldn't be tentative like that unless he wanted to get cut from the UFC.
Anyway who knows what's going to happen? Cain might tornado kick Francis in the head and turn his face into hamburger
Imagine not fighting for 4 years and your welcome back punches are being thrown by francis
yeah, if Cain is moving in, he better have his left hand guard higher to block Ngannou's overhand hook to the back of the head or it's Cain vs JDS I all over gain.