“For the Stipe fight, I think I rush for the first round,” Ngannou reflects upon his fight with Stipe Miocic
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“The Predator” Francis Ngannou is the boogyman of the UFC’s heavyweight division although he’s been knocking everyone out put against him, there is one goal he still hasn’t accomplished.
He lost the five-round contest against Stipe Miocic and he’s been looking for his title rematch ever since, on Joe Rogan’s podcast he reflected upon his previous fight he said, “For the Stipe fight, I think I rush for the first round. Now I’m like, ‘Damn, I had five rounds. Why should I rush and run out of gas?’ Looking at that fight, I watch that fight, I see the guy look like me, but I don’t recognize myself because it’s not the way that I fight.”
“I look back at other fights and it looks like two different persons. The way that I used to fight I was kind of calm; I’d push the fight and let myself get into fight and if there’s an opportunity — most of the time my opponent will be the first to attack. But this one I just rushed in there. So I’m like, I should have calmed down.”
Ngannou also blamed inexperience for his performance
He also added, “I didn’t spend enough time in the Octagon to have that experience.”
“Even though it was almost four years since I’d been doing the sport but I didn’t spend enough time in the Octagon to have that experience. I think in one night I covered more than what I’d been spending in the Octagon for the rest of my career.”
“Some people get here when they’ve been having athlete lives for a long time. “Maybe wrestling, maybe doing some different sport at school, at college, but I never got into that stuff. Growing up I was just finding my way to survive and then I end up finding myself in somewhere that I never been there so the experience was just crazy.”
Can he turn things around this time remains the question.
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Suryansh Thakur
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