UFC announcer, podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan is adamant that former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou beat Tyson Fury. He also believes that Ngannou would beat ‘all of them’.
Ngannou fought WBC and lineal champion boxer Tyson Fury on Oct. 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and lost via split decision. Many people scored the fight for Ngannou, including boxers.
“If I were Ngannou, I would tell him ‘You’re going to make so much money in boxing,’ and I think that he might be able to beat them all,” said Rogan on his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “I think he’s that good. He’s that much of a freak.”
“One judge’s scorecard, who was honest, and I think the judge gave him only one round where I think he should have given him two. He won by more than one point, but at least one judges scored it right. And then that other judge who scored it 96-93 for Tyson Fury should go to jail. Get the f**k out. And then the other one scored it, it was 95-94 in favor of Tyson Fury, or 96-95, whatever it was,” Rogan said.
“Look, he f**king dropped one of the greatest heavyweights, if not the greatest, besides him, of all time. Amazing! He looked for that left hook over and over again. It was clearly something they were looking for. Look, he’s f**king incredible! To have your first boxing match ever against the lineal heavyweight champion, six foot nine, a f**king juggernaut who’s been beating everybody and rock him, and then rock him again in the eighth round with a barrage of punches, it was a f**king amazing performance. Amazing. One of the greatest combat sports performances in the history of the arts,” continued Rogan.
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“I was screaming. My dog freaked out. I was like, ‘it’s okay, buddy. Daddy’s happy.’ Oh may God, he’s amazing. And when you see the guy’s origin story. When you want to talk about a man who persevered. That guy, for 14 months, he made his way from Cameroon to Morocco and seven times got arrested and sent back to the Sahara Desert and made his way right back to Morocco and finally made it across to Europe, on a raft, was in prison for months and lived as a homeless person in a f**king parking garage in France.”
Rogan may be Ngannou’s biggest fan, but Ngannou has an inspiring story. There’s no question that a movie will be made about him at some point.
“It’s like a comic book story. It’s like an origin story in a movie that you wouldn’t believe. And to have this guy go in his first ever boxing match against a guy that nobody gave him any chance, and to have the Las Vegas odds, like the online betting odds in the last round in his favor was f**king incredible because it was like 14- 1 at the start of the fight. At the end of the fight, he was favored, and he should have won.”
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