Name: Joe Praises Ciryl Gane's Performance Against Derrick Lewis
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Praises Ciryl Gane's Performance Against Derrick Lewis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-17. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
There's, uh, occasionally you'll see a fighter that does something very
artistic and striking that sort of elevates the standard.
Like, did you see the Derek Lewis-Cero Ghan fight?
No, no.
You need to see that.
There's a knockout. Derek Lewis got a knockout, right?
No. Cyril Ghan beat the shit out of him.
Oh, shit.
He shut him out. He shut him out. Like, it was a shutout for, I think, I think
he stopped him in the third.
But, I mean, Cyril Ghan, who's 6'5", 247 pounds, moves like a 170-pounder.
It's crazy. He's bouncing like Wonderboy.
Like, bouncing like this the entire fight.
Bouncing, throwing feints.
Like, completely changed the standard of heavyweight striking.
And I'm not exaggerating.
I watched it three times.
I watched it today, in fact.
I watched it in the gym today while I was working out.
So, better than, like, in Ghan, in terms of movement, in terms of he's, like,
the best moving heavyweight?
There's no question he is the best moving heavyweight I've ever seen.
No question.
The best moving.
It doesn't mean that, like, this is the way he fights.
Like, look at how he, like, every time Derek Lewis goes to set up to move
towards him, Cyril Ghan is nowhere to be found.
He lit Derek Lewis up, man.
And every time Derek Lewis comes to him, like, look at that jab.
I mean, his movement in terms of closing the distance is spectacular.
Look at that front leg, front kick to the body.
And I was severely impressed.
I mean, he had beaten a lot of really good guys.
Like, he beat Jairzinho Rosenstreich.
He beat Junior Dos Santos, whose best days are behind him.
But, you know, he's beaten some very, very good fighters.
But to watch the way he beat Derek Lewis, who's a legit one-punch knockout
threat, and the technical acumen that he showed, the skill, the technique, the
footwork, the movement, the understanding of distance, the ability to control
everything that happened inside the octagon, was spectacular.
That's art.
It changed my opinion of how a fight with him and Francis Ngannou would go down.
At first, my thought is that Francis Ngannou has the nuclear option with
everybody.
He has such fucking power.
So does Derek Lewis.
So does Derek Lewis.
But Francis Ngannou.
He has the hydrogen bomb.
Derek Lewis has the atomic.
Well, they both have crazy one-punch power.
But when you watch Cyril Gann, you go, man, how the fuck does anybody?
It's like Francis has excellent technique.
Francis has ridiculous power.
But he doesn't have the movement that Gann has.
The question is, can Francis deal with the movement and maybe threaten him in a
way that Derek Lewis didn't figure out how to?
And that's what makes the fight so interesting.
But the way that guy moves is something special, man.
I mean, you only saw like little highlights of it there.
But I've watched it pretty carefully in the three times that I've watched it.
I can't think of a single heavyweight that I've ever seen move like that.
And there's no flaws in his clinch game.
He understands like how to avoid the takedown.
He understands pummeling.
He understands distance and where he's safe, where he's not safe and what to
look for when he's pulling out of the clinch to not get hit.
It's really amazing, man.
He's on a fucking real high level.
And he's undefeated.
So I think he's 9-0 now or 10-0.
So he's going to get a title shot?
Well, he's the interim heavyweight champion now.
Oh, that was for the heavyweight champion.
Which is weird, right?
Yeah.
It's like Ngannou just won the fucking title.
He's not injured.
It's just like the UFC and Ngannou were at some sort of a weird impasse.
So they decided to make an interim title, which brings up all sorts of ethical
discussions about what is an interim title.
If the organization could just decide, oh, the negotiations aren't going so
well, we're just going to have an interim title.
How many months after?
When did he fight Stipe?
When did Francis Ngannou fight Stipe?
Let's take a guess.
Was it?
I think so.
It was definitely during the pandemic because it was at the...
It was November or something like that.
It was at the APEC Center.
March 27th.
Of 2021?
Yes.
Yeah.
It feels like way longer ago.
Five months ago.
Yeah, five.
Okay, five is as long.
That's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
You know, like how much time do you give a guy before, you know, he defends his
title?
The difference in boxing is so different.
Like boxers go the long stretch.
And boxers enter into negotiations and negotiate.
Like Caleb Plant and Canelo Alvarez.
They've been dancing back and forth as to whether or not they're supposed to
fight.
And the negotiations fall apart.
And they come back together again.
And now they're supposedly in negotiations again for November.
You know, boxing is so different.
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