Name: Thoughts on Francis Ngannou's Release, Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane Match-Up
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thoughts on Francis Ngannou's Release, Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane Match-Up' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-19. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience so what do you think of this Jon Jones Cirogan fight
honestly I think it's a it's a tougher fight than Francis really I do I think
that Cirogan
his movement his footwork he's so good with his front leg and for Jon Jones who
remember when he
came back from OSP he looked so stiff and that was a time off and putting a lot
of muscle on
he just looked like a slower version of himself so now this time it's a longer
time off and you're
coming back with way more weight on and you're going against one of like the
faster heavyweights
and the more smoother heavyweights instead of Gagnon you were you know he lands
that hard punch I could
do it but I could just shoot under that hard punch and Gagnon you I mean uh Cirogan
you have to watch
the kicks watch the footwork cut him off yeah the thing is that Cirogan was out
grappled by Francis
when Francis had a bad knee Francis's knee was fucked up and Francis out grappled
him and beat him
handily with his grappling yeah you know I talked to Eric Nixick and he said
Francis's grappling is on
a totally different level than he used to be before and he's so big and so
strong yeah like you know
he's uh in camp with Blagoj uh Ivanov yeah and he said he was just holding him
down doing whatever he
wants to him I'm like that is really impressive because Blagoj beat Fedor in
combat sambo he's a
monster he's a monster he's the one who got like stabbed right yeah in the
heart yeah he's yeah one
time I saw him at uh you know he's under Ali and we Ali had like a media day
for his fighters
and Blagoj like comes up to me and like I make pics every uh every fight and I'll
like circle fighters
who I think is gonna win I'll post it on my Instagram and he like came up to me
and he like
shoulder bump he's like you didn't pick me my last fight and I was like I was
like what and I was
like dude I don't even think I don't even know your fighters even really pay
attention he's like I was
like dude I now I started realizing that these guys are like watching it but uh
of course they watch
yeah I was like this guy's crazy but I was like man I gotta pick him every
single time he goes now
I was like nuts but yeah I always talk to Eric Nixick Eric Nixick's one of
those coaches that
he's like my brother I'll call him after hey they're giving me this guy what do
you think about it
and he would always tell me like Francis is Francis is one of those heavyweights
that loves to wrestle
like you know wrestling practice strikers they don't show up they don't they
hate to be in that grind
it's a different type of grind they said Francis is there all the time he loves
to be in that
he wants to learn I mean especially after that Stipe fight the first Stipe
fight he learned like
that's where his Achilles heel is is grappling and that also you can't take
everybody out like sometimes
like not in that fight at least Stipe just weathered the storm somehow or
another yeah and you have to
have the gas tank and you have to have the grappling to survive all those other
exchanges but that was
at his moment remember when he was just knocking everybody out and he had like
two minutes of fight
time yeah then all of a sudden you fight a guy oh dang it's past the second
round well it's also like we
talked about with Hamzat when Hamzat went after Kevin Holland if you get out of
that round how much do you have
left yeah he got out of the round Stipe made it out of the round and then Stipe
started dominating
but that second fight man Francis's takedown defense he looked good patient
Francis that's what DC was
saying patient Francis is scary Francis yeah that's why I'm mad yeah I'm mad
because I feel like we were
deprived of one of the great fights in MMA one of the most compelling fights in
MMA does it mean
I'm not interested in Cyril Gan and Jon Jones I'm very interested in that fight
I'm very for all the
things you listed also for Cyril Gan's performance against Tai Tuivasa it's
like god damn Cyril Gan
and Cyril Gan does a lot of shit that's very unusual like first of all he
stands totally sideways
and he does like a twisting kick with his front leg to throw a front kick you
know yeah yeah very weird
yes he stands totally sideways and he like twists his leg in he doesn't stick
it up and stab it forward
he like twists it and go in yeah you never did that well Taekwondo it's a
twisting kick yeah yeah it's
called a twisting kick okay yeah so no that's him throwing sidekicks but yeah
he threw a spinning
heel kick he throws this kick off the front leg if you go to Tai Tuivasa um the
one he was landing to
that front to the body oh my god dude Tai is so tough he's so tough Tai is so
tough that was a crazy ass
fight and that was a perfect fight to like showcase what Cyril Gan's capable of
because his his movement
the fluidity of his combinations and I mean the guy moves like a middleweight
yeah he's 240 plus pounds
this was a great ass fight so he stands sideways and he throws this front kick
when he gets distance
he throws this front kick off the sideways stance and he turns his body oh
there's that kick to the body
those those round kicks oh this is the finishing oh yeah very very interesting
man watching the two
there it is see it yeah see how he throws it and he throws it off of both sides
with the front leg
he's the most agile and the the like probably the most technical of all the
heavyweight strikers
Cyril's very well-rounded when it comes to his striking he's so smooth yeah so
and he's like
intelligent like he understands with the distance all right now this is a knee
distance this is not kick
distance very interesting fight so for John it's going to be can John take him
down can John like how
does John perform at heavyweight can John close the distance as he is fast what
is the three years
off like is he hungrier and even better because he's fired up and he you know
like y'all must have
forgot he's got that mindset he usually does too right remember he was always
that guy that would want
to beat you at your own game oh you're a wrestler I'll wrestle you you're a
striker I'll strike with you
yeah so well he comes out there thinking zero gone you're a smooth striker I'll
smooth you I don't know
it's also a first fight at heavyweight we really don't know how he's going to
respond when he gets
hit by a big heavyweight we don't know anything yeah and it's a years and it's
also John is older now
you know just that time honestly a lot of partying yeah John parties you know I
don't know what he's
been doing maybe he's been living clean over the last few years I don't know I
know I saw him with uh
Cejudo now and yeah maybe that that Cejudo might still help him too so I like
that I like Cejudo's
mindset and I like that fight ready camp I think what Henry brings to the table
is very unique his
mindset is really incredible and you know I talked to Mighty Mouse about it I
had Mighty Mouse on
and uh Demetrius was saying that like he's so meticulous in his training and
how he prepares
and plans for things yeah like his everything is like very very focused I was
uh Dan Ige he was
telling me how he went down there and he was he's like I never talked to
anybody with
kind of like the war mindset as him it's like he sees it as like a chess match
he breaks it down in
that type of uh way it's not like oh let's go out there see red whatever
happens happens he does this
this and this even with uh I said I had uh breakfast with him once before the
Sean Brady fight and he was
like let's watch a little tape on him let's let me look up what he what he does
and just like watching
one tape of Sean Brady oh well he stands like this I think you should could do
this this low kick will be
perfect right here but uh just seeing how he breaks down how he talks to people
it just tells me that
being a coach and being at his gym he'll get deeper and deeper and deeper into
those little aspects of
the fight that a lot of people don't really care about or look at a lot of I
know a lot of fighters
that they'll never even watch the tape of somebody they're going to fight they'll
never they're just
going there with the mindset of if I'm in shape and I'm on my bus I'm gonna win
yeah I think he's one of
the great coaches out there I think Farras Ahabi's probably I mean he's one of
my all-time favorites if not
my favorite but I think there's just a few guys like that like Henry Cejudo you
know that are just
like they're next level coaches they just have this mindset they just that's
the most important thing
I feel like it's not all about toughness and right I've had coaches that tell
me like oh well this guy
never fought before why are you gonna think that he's a good coach but you don't
need to be a fighter
or that some people are just better at understanding and breaking down fights
in general than having to
go in there and fight some people can teach some people can fight some of the
great coaches like
think about guys like Teddy Atlas wasn't known as a great boxer amazing coach
yeah you know like there's
Emmanuel Stewart wasn't known as a great boxer but amazing coach one of the
greatest coaches ever
there's there's quite a few guys like that yeah I mean Eric Nixick my coach
Mike Valli never
followed before he's the same way and like I said it's like some people are
better at teaching some
people are better at breaking down film and seeing other guys weaknesses like I
know what Nixick was
telling me that he would he used to be a football player and he would like
bring that mindset that
game plan mindset of what's the weakness if I know these guys are good at the
pass well we're going to
play pass defense and then fighters don't think like that for me when I fought
Damian Maia my goal is
to stand and strike with you I'm not going to grapple with Damian Maia when I'm
fighting
Wonderboy I'm not going to strike with Wonderboy I'm going to take him down
right when I'm fighting these guys a certain way I'm switching it up each time
is John in
Phoenix now is he training down there he was uh I know he was down there he
said he was down there
for visiting because he was with Jax and Winklejohn they had a falling out so
he left and then I think
he was doing stuff out of his garage but then now he was down with crazy Cejudo
training down there with
them now too I think I'm not sure if he's doing his full camp there but I know
he was doing some stuff
there one thing he's done right is put that weight on slowly yeah that's the
one thing he's done
right because he's got accustomed to being 255 pounds and walking around real
big and heavy and he
looks real big and heavy he looks like a heavyweight he doesn't look like a
light heavyweight that gained
weight yeah he looks like a fucking heavyweight and I'm wondering who he's sparring
with
because you know there's this being in the gym and being who you are John Jones
you know
there's people like want to see how he is and a million people trying to
get an inside scoop of oh how does he look how does he look and we really haven't
heard anything like
that yeah from uh any of the little uh birds on somebody's shoulder or
something like that so
I wonder if he's actually sparring with anybody training with anybody or if he
just has that much
loyal teammates that are not going to say a word about it until he wants to I
don't know it's a good
question because if he's going to fight a guy like Cyril gone he really wants
to get some movement some
some really top flight kickboxers so like who does he have that he can work
with like that you know you
really want Cyril is so good at mixing up the kicks and the knees and the
punches and the combinations
and he's so and he's so light like the way he stands on the outside like if you're
going to compete
against like a guy like that you got to get some similar looks and how many
similar looks are there
out there for a guy that's 245 pounds that could move like that moves like Cyril
yeah there's not a lot
yeah interesting fight but here's the problem let's say John beats Cyril gone
okay
and then John fights Stipe and John beats Stipe then what people are sleeping
on Curtis Blades I think
he's one of the toughest guys there my immediate goal is to beat Cyril gone and
to beat Stipe Miocic
John Jones said after that will be in conversations with the UFC go to the UFC
heavyweight um rankings
because I'll show you what I'm interested in what I'm interested in at UFC
heavyweight click on that
shit Pavlovich oh Pavlovich oh my god that's the boy yeah Sergei Pavlovich that
motherfucker that's the
Russian Fedor I mean the Russian Francis rather he like comes out guns blazing
on people just like Francis used to
that motherfucker can bomb he's a monster and he's so fast too with that he's
so accurate very good
does it have any fights of his not on that website okay not the way I have it
um the way he beat black
beast and uh tied to a boss is so quick I was like the tied to a boss fight was
incredible I mean
we think about Cyril gone going through that war with him and Sergei just put
it on him he's his
boxing is fucking tight very tight man real power punches excellent technique
big guy too yeah big heavy
fuck I think Corey was talking about he used to train with him and he was like
yeah he'd be in a
practice room with us uh all the time and stuff like that so coming up with
here he is man I mean
this fucking dude scary I mean to beat Derrick Lewis like that to have Derrick
completely on his I mean
look at the combinations he's landed Mark Smith oh there's a Dan Margulietta
seen enough look at that
that fucking dude can crack he can crack he's interesting so I want to see him
fight more
obviously he beat to go to the tie to Ivasa fight he beat to Ivasa I mean the
fucking combinations this
guy has look at this boom that was so smooth 30 seconds in there and Ty gets up
and just guns blazing
so accurate
oh my goodness
dude dude so he's to me out of with Francis leaving he's one of the most
interesting guys
at heavyweight if not the most interesting guy at heavyweight yeah I'm very
interested to see him
fight a guy like John Jones that that's crazy to me so if John gets a few
fights at heavyweight if he
gets Cyril gone if he beats him that's an if and then if he beats Stipe Miocic
that's another if and then he fights Sergei
Thank you.

Thoughts on Francis Ngannou's Release, Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane Match-Up

the Joe Rogan experience so what do you think of this Jon Jones Cirogan fight
honestly I think it's a it's a tougher fight than Francis really I do I think
that Cirogan
his movement his footwork he's so good with his front leg and for Jon Jones who
remember when he
came back from OSP he looked so stiff and that was a time off and putting a lot
of muscle on
he just looked like a slower version of himself so now this time it's a longer
time off and you're
coming back with way more weight on and you're going against one of like the
faster heavyweights
and the more smoother heavyweights instead of Gagnon you were you know he lands
that hard punch I could
do it but I could just shoot under that hard punch and Gagnon you I mean uh Cirogan
you have to watch
the kicks watch the footwork cut him off yeah the thing is that Cirogan was out
grappled by Francis
when Francis had a bad knee Francis's knee was fucked up and Francis out grappled
him and beat him
handily with his grappling yeah you know I talked to Eric Nixick and he said
Francis's grappling is on
a totally different level than he used to be before and he's so big and so
strong yeah like you know
he's uh in camp with Blagoj uh Ivanov yeah and he said he was just holding him
down doing whatever he
wants to him I'm like that is really impressive because Blagoj beat Fedor in
combat sambo he's a
monster he's a monster he's the one who got like stabbed right yeah in the
heart yeah he's yeah one
time I saw him at uh you know he's under Ali and we Ali had like a media day
for his fighters
and Blagoj like comes up to me and like I make pics every uh every fight and I'll
like circle fighters
who I think is gonna win I'll post it on my Instagram and he like came up to me
and he like
shoulder bump he's like you didn't pick me my last fight and I was like I was
like what and I was
like dude I don't even think I don't even know your fighters even really pay
attention he's like I was
like dude I now I started realizing that these guys are like watching it but uh
of course they watch
yeah I was like this guy's crazy but I was like man I gotta pick him every
single time he goes now
I was like nuts but yeah I always talk to Eric Nixick Eric Nixick's one of
those coaches that
he's like my brother I'll call him after hey they're giving me this guy what do
you think about it
and he would always tell me like Francis is Francis is one of those heavyweights
that loves to wrestle
like you know wrestling practice strikers they don't show up they don't they
hate to be in that grind
it's a different type of grind they said Francis is there all the time he loves
to be in that
he wants to learn I mean especially after that Stipe fight the first Stipe
fight he learned like
that's where his Achilles heel is is grappling and that also you can't take
everybody out like sometimes
like not in that fight at least Stipe just weathered the storm somehow or
another yeah and you have to
have the gas tank and you have to have the grappling to survive all those other
exchanges but that was
at his moment remember when he was just knocking everybody out and he had like
two minutes of fight
time yeah then all of a sudden you fight a guy oh dang it's past the second
round well it's also like we
talked about with Hamzat when Hamzat went after Kevin Holland if you get out of
that round how much do you have
left yeah he got out of the round Stipe made it out of the round and then Stipe
started dominating
but that second fight man Francis's takedown defense he looked good patient
Francis that's what DC was
saying patient Francis is scary Francis yeah that's why I'm mad yeah I'm mad
because I feel like we were
deprived of one of the great fights in MMA one of the most compelling fights in
MMA does it mean
I'm not interested in Cyril Gan and Jon Jones I'm very interested in that fight
I'm very for all the
things you listed also for Cyril Gan's performance against Tai Tuivasa it's
like god damn Cyril Gan
and Cyril Gan does a lot of shit that's very unusual like first of all he
stands totally sideways
and he does like a twisting kick with his front leg to throw a front kick you
know yeah yeah very weird
yes he stands totally sideways and he like twists his leg in he doesn't stick
it up and stab it forward
he like twists it and go in yeah you never did that well Taekwondo it's a
twisting kick yeah yeah it's
called a twisting kick okay yeah so no that's him throwing sidekicks but yeah
he threw a spinning
heel kick he throws this kick off the front leg if you go to Tai Tuivasa um the
one he was landing to
that front to the body oh my god dude Tai is so tough he's so tough Tai is so
tough that was a crazy ass
fight and that was a perfect fight to like showcase what Cyril Gan's capable of
because his his movement
the fluidity of his combinations and I mean the guy moves like a middleweight
yeah he's 240 plus pounds
this was a great ass fight so he stands sideways and he throws this front kick
when he gets distance
he throws this front kick off the sideways stance and he turns his body oh
there's that kick to the body
those those round kicks oh this is the finishing oh yeah very very interesting
man watching the two
there it is see it yeah see how he throws it and he throws it off of both sides
with the front leg
he's the most agile and the the like probably the most technical of all the
heavyweight strikers
Cyril's very well-rounded when it comes to his striking he's so smooth yeah so
and he's like
intelligent like he understands with the distance all right now this is a knee
distance this is not kick
distance very interesting fight so for John it's going to be can John take him
down can John like how
does John perform at heavyweight can John close the distance as he is fast what
is the three years
off like is he hungrier and even better because he's fired up and he you know
like y'all must have
forgot he's got that mindset he usually does too right remember he was always
that guy that would want
to beat you at your own game oh you're a wrestler I'll wrestle you you're a
striker I'll strike with you
yeah so well he comes out there thinking zero gone you're a smooth striker I'll
smooth you I don't know
it's also a first fight at heavyweight we really don't know how he's going to
respond when he gets
hit by a big heavyweight we don't know anything yeah and it's a years and it's
also John is older now
you know just that time honestly a lot of partying yeah John parties you know I
don't know what he's
been doing maybe he's been living clean over the last few years I don't know I
know I saw him with uh
Cejudo now and yeah maybe that that Cejudo might still help him too so I like
that I like Cejudo's
mindset and I like that fight ready camp I think what Henry brings to the table
is very unique his
mindset is really incredible and you know I talked to Mighty Mouse about it I
had Mighty Mouse on
and uh Demetrius was saying that like he's so meticulous in his training and
how he prepares
and plans for things yeah like his everything is like very very focused I was
uh Dan Ige he was
telling me how he went down there and he was he's like I never talked to
anybody with
kind of like the war mindset as him it's like he sees it as like a chess match
he breaks it down in
that type of uh way it's not like oh let's go out there see red whatever
happens happens he does this
this and this even with uh I said I had uh breakfast with him once before the
Sean Brady fight and he was
like let's watch a little tape on him let's let me look up what he what he does
and just like watching
one tape of Sean Brady oh well he stands like this I think you should could do
this this low kick will be
perfect right here but uh just seeing how he breaks down how he talks to people
it just tells me that
being a coach and being at his gym he'll get deeper and deeper and deeper into
those little aspects of
the fight that a lot of people don't really care about or look at a lot of I
know a lot of fighters
that they'll never even watch the tape of somebody they're going to fight they'll
never they're just
going there with the mindset of if I'm in shape and I'm on my bus I'm gonna win
yeah I think he's one of
the great coaches out there I think Farras Ahabi's probably I mean he's one of
my all-time favorites if not
my favorite but I think there's just a few guys like that like Henry Cejudo you
know that are just
like they're next level coaches they just have this mindset they just that's
the most important thing
I feel like it's not all about toughness and right I've had coaches that tell
me like oh well this guy
never fought before why are you gonna think that he's a good coach but you don't
need to be a fighter
or that some people are just better at understanding and breaking down fights
in general than having to
go in there and fight some people can teach some people can fight some of the
great coaches like
think about guys like Teddy Atlas wasn't known as a great boxer amazing coach
yeah you know like there's
Emmanuel Stewart wasn't known as a great boxer but amazing coach one of the
greatest coaches ever
there's there's quite a few guys like that yeah I mean Eric Nixick my coach
Mike Valli never
followed before he's the same way and like I said it's like some people are
better at teaching some
people are better at breaking down film and seeing other guys weaknesses like I
know what Nixick was
telling me that he would he used to be a football player and he would like
bring that mindset that
game plan mindset of what's the weakness if I know these guys are good at the
pass well we're going to
play pass defense and then fighters don't think like that for me when I fought
Damian Maia my goal is
to stand and strike with you I'm not going to grapple with Damian Maia when I'm
fighting
Wonderboy I'm not going to strike with Wonderboy I'm going to take him down
right when I'm fighting these guys a certain way I'm switching it up each time
is John in
Phoenix now is he training down there he was uh I know he was down there he
said he was down there
for visiting because he was with Jax and Winklejohn they had a falling out so
he left and then I think
he was doing stuff out of his garage but then now he was down with crazy Cejudo
training down there with
them now too I think I'm not sure if he's doing his full camp there but I know
he was doing some stuff
there one thing he's done right is put that weight on slowly yeah that's the
one thing he's done
right because he's got accustomed to being 255 pounds and walking around real
big and heavy and he
looks real big and heavy he looks like a heavyweight he doesn't look like a
light heavyweight that gained
weight yeah he looks like a fucking heavyweight and I'm wondering who he's sparring
with
because you know there's this being in the gym and being who you are John Jones
you know
there's people like want to see how he is and a million people trying to
get an inside scoop of oh how does he look how does he look and we really haven't
heard anything like
that yeah from uh any of the little uh birds on somebody's shoulder or
something like that so
I wonder if he's actually sparring with anybody training with anybody or if he
just has that much
loyal teammates that are not going to say a word about it until he wants to I
don't know it's a good
question because if he's going to fight a guy like Cyril gone he really wants
to get some movement some
some really top flight kickboxers so like who does he have that he can work
with like that you know you
really want Cyril is so good at mixing up the kicks and the knees and the
punches and the combinations
and he's so and he's so light like the way he stands on the outside like if you're
going to compete
against like a guy like that you got to get some similar looks and how many
similar looks are there
out there for a guy that's 245 pounds that could move like that moves like Cyril
yeah there's not a lot
yeah interesting fight but here's the probl