Name: JRE MMA Show #160 with Francis Ngannou
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #160 with Francis Ngannou' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-07-23. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #160 with Francis Ngannou

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The Joe Rogan experience.
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All right, we're up.
What's up, man?
Good to see you.
Good to see you too.
You have had a lot of experiences since the last time I saw you.
Yeah.
A lot of things happen.
That's why, like, I always about writing my book and chapter keep adding up,
adding up, adding up.
And yes, every time you feel like you're just maybe in the beginning or in the
middle.
Yeah, I don't think so.
You're definitely only in the middle.
Yeah, in the middle.
Somewhere.
I mean, it's not the beginning, but it's a lot of experiences.
So tell me about leading up to the Tyson Fury fight.
Oh, the Tyson Fury fight, that was great.
You know, I was just there living a dream.
You know, get this big moment, get that fight that I've been waiting for four
years.
The fight that everybody said you were never going to get.
Yes.
Which is crazy.
Like, thank God for the Saudis.
Yes.
Because they are making things happen, which is really incredible.
They are making things happen.
Incredible.
And it's not like, who is this, who is who, who is that?
You know, it's like, okay, we want it to happen, then make it happen.
Yeah, because everybody wanted to see it happen.
But it was one of those things where everybody dismissed it.
Everybody said, that's not going to happen.
Tyson Fury is the heavyweight champion.
Why would he fight a guy who doesn't have any professional boxing matches?
That's crazy.
That's not going to happen.
Yeah.
And it happened.
And then everybody said, you didn't stand a chance.
And then when you knocked him down the second round, everybody was like, holy
shit.
And when you're dancing over him when he went down.
Yeah.
But, you know, I think a lot of people do mistake something, you know.
And I always tell people, like, not because you're a fighter that you walk in
the bar and there's this guy coming to you.
Maybe this fat guy coming to you.
And then you stand there and because you're a fighter, don't think, like, he's
a threat.
Everybody could be a threat.
You better step, take two steps back and then, like, see your distance and get
ready to defend yourself.
You know, you don't, if everybody hits you, anybody hits you, you're going to
get hurt.
Right.
You know.
True.
So, yes, I might not have been doing boxing.
I'm not a boxer.
But still, I'm a fighter.
And even if I wasn't a fighter, you know, I can hurt and I can harm somebody.
You're a big motherfucker.
I'm a big guy.
So, I was watching it and people was like, no, he's 10, no chance.
He has zero chance.
I'm like, there is not a fight on earth that zero chance, that element of zero
chance doesn't exist.
I mean, if you look at it, I'm a man guy.
And then, two men together, someone might have more techniques, might know the
sport.
But even if I've never been in the gym, you still better watch out.
I still have a chance.
Yes.
Maybe not as much, maybe not equal chance, but I still do have a chance.
But you can't dismiss someone like you and drop your guard.
No.
And think that you don't have any chance.
You shouldn't dismiss anybody.
No.
You know, we used to be in the, I have seen fight that people show up and then
they pretend like, oh, they're going to fight.
They have stone in their hand.
And if you dismiss them because you think like, oh, he's a small guy, he hits
you with the stone in his hand.
Right, right, right, right.
Well, by the time you find out that he has stone in their hand, you are in the
ground.
Right, exactly.
But it was very clear to me that you had some interesting strategies when you
went into that fight.
First of all, you were fighting a lot of it in Southpaw.
Why did you decide to do that?
Was that something that you guys had devised before the fight?
You thought it would be an interesting strategy?
Or is that just like the way you like to box?
I like to box like that, but I also thought he was a strategy.
That he would be a good strategy as well because like basically on the Tyson
Fury fight, I think the Southpaw was a big component in that fight because
every time that I realized that every time that I switched to Southpaw, he was
thinking.
But when I switched back to Orthodox, he was pressing.
So when I wanted to take a break, I switched to Southpaw a little bit.
What was it like to, I mean, there's obviously you've had many MMA fights, you've
been very successful UFC heavyweight champion as an MMA fighter.
But what was the difference in the feel of like going into a professional
boxing fight with a guy like Tyson Fury, who is the heavyweight champion of the
world and one of the greatest of all time?
He's absolutely one of the greatest heavyweight boxers ever.
Yeah, but he was completely different.
You know, the environment is different.
The organization is different.
It's different to be a step in the ring for the first time.
Okay.
You have all this spotlight on you, but you're in the ring.
Feels different.
Sometime you're in the cage.
You're used to the cage.
You lean on that cage.
You have that feeling.
You grab the cage.
Also, you have shoes on.
Yes.
And then in the cage, you know that you can do more.
You can wrestle.
You can do this.
And you're comfortable with that.
But you're in the ring for the very first time somewhere that you've never been.
It feels different.
And then you're thinking like, oh, man, how am I going to do?
Am I going to be able to do three rounds?
Am I going to be able to do four rounds?
I don't know.
I can find out just now.
There's not a way back.
That's crazy.
You're going to find out.
So by every round, you have to think about like, okay, how am I doing?
This is the first round.
Then second round.
Okay.
So this is the fifth round.
I'm not too bad.
So I think I'm going to get there, you know, just go like that round after
round.
So you're concerned about endurance?
Yes.
You're very concerned about endurance.
It was 10 rounds, and I didn't know how I'm going to be feeling after the third
round.
You turned it on in the eighth round.
In the eighth round, you hit him with some big shots.
Yeah.
That was one of your best rounds.
Yeah.
Yeah, the eighth round was pretty good.
Then I get a little, then I pull my feet off the gas on the ninth round.
And then the 10 rounds, I'm like, you know, like, oh, I feel good.
This is the last round, right?
I feel good.
That's when I started to do like those, this Superman punch or the stuff.
For me, he was already a win.
You shocked the world.
That's for sure.
Did you have any mock fights in the gym?
Like, did you bring in any professional boxers and have, like, try to go 8, 10
rounds in the gym?
Sparring.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But like with no headgear, like smaller gloves.
Did you do anything like that replicated an actual professional boxing match?
No.
No.
We just do like a normal sparring, have a different sparring partner sometimes
to push me.
But we didn't do anything like that.
You know, as a MMA fighter, we used to spar without gloves, without headgear
and stuff.
But you get into boxing.
Everything is so strict, so specific.
And then you get to the point that you kind of like ask yourself, like, why
taking a chance to hurt now and get pulled up of the fight?
You know, I'm just going to train.
I trained the best that I could, that I can.
Then I will get there, see, figure out what's happening.
And so, but from the time the negotiations started to the time of the fight,
how much time did you have to prepare for this?
For the negotiation?
No.
So you had the negotiations and then once it was signed, how much time did you
have to prepare for the actual fight itself?
And were you preparing already, hoping you were going to have a boxing match?
Yeah, but it's different to like think that, oh, I might have a boxing match.
I want to have a boxing match.
Then when you have a boxing match and knowing who you are going to fight is, is
something different.
You know, you prepare, the real preparation starts now.
And between the moment that we signed the fight, the fight itself, it was over
three months.
Because I know that it wasn't my, my film, you know, and I didn't have any, and
it's not like I was in the gym training boxing every day.
So it was basically four months.
So I took, yeah, I took it a moment for a pre-camp.
And I came back here because I was in Cameroon at a time.
Then I came back here.
My team and I, we work on like everything, start like a pre-camp, you know,
just train to get in shape, start like sparring.
And then we started, we started the sparring with three rounds.
Wow.
The first sparring was like three rounds, move around, see, then we started to
go, walk, round after round, you know.
What I thought when I saw the fight is imagine if you had just gone into
professional boxing like 10 years ago, how well you would do.
If you, no MMA, no kicking, no wrestling, just professional boxing.
For you to do that well against a guy like Tyson Fury, who's that good.
I don't really know.
And those are the stuff that I don't usually think about.
I think life sometimes just had a path for you.
You follow the path that your destiny, that life has for you.
And you just be grateful because regardless of the fact that I didn't start 10
years earlier, I didn't have that opportunity 10 years earlier.
Meanwhile, I had to discover MMA and have a great journey in MMA, have a great
experience in MMA, you know.
So it's something that I will not regret that.
I will not beat that up over an opportunity of starting boxing early.
Things just happened.
I took my chance.
I do what I can do.
It's all about like figure out how far I can go, what I can possibly do, you
know.
So I'm not an 18 years, 20 years old guy that I dream to have a career into
this.
But I still want to know what I can possibly do at this point of my life.
Yeah.
What was the experience like when it was all over?
Like what did it feel like when you just went 10 rounds and a lot of people,
including myself, thought you won?
Yeah.
Oh, I feel very great.
You know, like regardless of the result for me, knowing what I was going
through, what was in my mind, like what's going to happen into this fight?
First round, second round, then I get in the 10th round.
Good.
And I pretty, I feel like I wasn't doing bad.
So for me, that was a win.
That was a satisfaction, you know.
Right.
The result was other part of it, which didn't matter most.
But I knew already that when, if ever, because I couldn't guarantee that we
would get in the 10th round.
But if ever we get there, I wasn't expecting to win.
When you dropped him.
Definitely not.
When you dropped him in the second round, I jumped off the couch.
I jumped in the air.
I would say something, you know, like, I won this from the moment that they
accepted the fight, that they signed the fight.
Because I think I was very underestimated, you know.
They didn't know that I could have done something, you know.
If they have known that beforehand, maybe this fight would have never happened.
Because they would have seen a risk and they wouldn't want to take that risk.
So this was basically like less risk, zero risk.
And it probably would have been different too, because there was no footage to
prepare for you.
Right?
Like the only footage that he could prepare was watching you fight in MMA.
Yes, he was.
There it is.
Why were you dancing in front of him?
When we started a fight, when the referee said, okay, you guys go to your
corner.
He said, let me take you to school.
So that was, the dancing was like, I think you're a bad professor.
You're a bad teacher.
That was the only reason why I did that.
He's a funny guy, man.
He's funny.
He's very entertaining.
Oh, he's so entertaining.
He's so entertaining.
He's just a show guy.
Yeah.
That's happened to really like, being very talented in boxing, good at it.
But he's an entertainer.
Oh, I mean, he's, the way he sells it.
I mean, even the way he was playing with his fat, like standing next to you,
like rubbing his belly.
Like sometimes he will 