Who will win? Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou full fight prediction, breakdown

Probably the most fearsome combined martial arts (MMA) Heavyweight trades four-ounce gloves for eight-ounce gloves TONIGHT (Sat., Oct. 28, 2023) when former Final Combating Championship (UFC) champion, Francis Ngannou, makes his skilled boxing debut in opposition to undefeated WBC kingpin, Tyson Fury.

MMAmania.com will ship LIVE protection of the “Fury vs. Ngannou”-led pay-per-view (PPV) important card proper right here. The PPV important card broadcast kicks off on ESPN+ at 2 p.m. ET, whereas Fury and Ngannou are anticipated to make their ring walks round 6 p.m. ET.

The bout caps off an all-Heavyweight important card that options prime contenders like Joseph Parker and Martin Bakole, in addition to undefeated sluggers Fabio Wardley, David Adeleye and Arslanbek Makhmudov.

Everyone knows what you’re right here to see, although, so let’s not beat across the bush. How does tonight’s important occasion go down?

THE FIGHT

All you really want to know in regards to the competitiveness of this matchup is that Fury intends to face unified champion Oleksandr Usyk — one of many hardest opponents of his profession — lower than two months later.

And it’s an enormous payday.

Extreme although it might be, Fury’s conceitedness is justified right here (sorry, Francis). Certainly, it’s laborious to overstate simply how vast the technical hole is. Fury possesses uncanny grace for a such an enormous and awkward-looking man. If he elects to maintain his distance and pepper Ngannou, “The Predator” lacks the footwork or explosive closing velocity to chase him down. Even when he does in some way bulldoze his approach inside, Fury is extremely adept at utilizing that awkward body to smother opponents within the clinch, sapping their power with each rough-housing and the sheer effort of carrying a 270-pound monster.

To be clear, Fury can select to be defensive, however he doesn’t should. After getting clipped twice in his first match with Deontay Wilder, Fury ramped up the aggression and completely mauled him within the rematch. If he sees it as the perfect path to victory, he’s daring and expert sufficient to pressure a power-puncher onto the again foot, one thing Ngannou hardly ever needed to cope with within the Octagon.

Had been this a placing match with four-ounce gloves, I’d be at the very least open to the concept of giving Ngannou a puncher’s likelihood. Not so with boxing gear, which is not going to solely sluggish Ngannou’s punches, however make it considerably harder to sneak an ungainly bomb by means of Fury’s guard.

I’m not even satisfied a stray haymaker may maintain Fury down, both. Wilder landed a number of of his legendary proper palms flush to Fury’s face and by no means managed to get rid of him.

After which he bought bought.

Rust, underdeveloped method and an unfamiliar ruleset would make this an uphill battle for Ngannou in opposition to even a low-level Heavyweight. In opposition to arguably the perfect of this era? There’s no quantity of “will to win” that may save him.

In the long run, anticipate Fury to methodically dismantle Ngannou earlier than forcing a mercy stoppage.

Simply as “The Gypsy King” predicted.

Prediction: Fury def. Ngannou through sixth-round technical knockout

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