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January 2, 2026 • 15 mins

Jake Paul wants Francis Ngannou next, and called him soft after getting knocked out by Anthony Joshua in their most recent fight. Daniel Cormier REACTS to Jake's CALLOUT of Francis, and explains why he's going to get knocked out by Francis. DC says that despite lasting more rounds against Joshua than Ngannou did, it was only because of style differences in the boxing ring. Cormier GOES IN ON why Jake Paul will once again get knocked out if he chooses to fight Francis, and breaks down the logic behind Ngannou taking that fight this coming year. #Volume 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Volume. All right, so you guys know that now the
boys all into soccer.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Part of it is because of the video.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Game, but then I started watching the games, and honestly,
it really is a beautiful game. And next summer, we
are hosting the biggest soccer tournament of all time all across.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The United States. I mean, it's gonna happen in eleven cities.

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people will watch the tournament this summer.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
When you're watching all these great teams.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Obviously, our United States team for a long time has
not been the best, but we have guys now on
this team who are planning you Europe, who are playing
in the top flight leagues, and our national team has
a lot of expectation going into the tournament this summer.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
We expect to do well be in the whole country.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Obviously we qualified automatically, but I feel with the team
that we have now we would have qualified anyways.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's that good.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Obviously, Argentina is tough, England's tough, Spain's tough, Germany's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Those are like the favorites.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
But we as a national team finally feel like we
can at least compete with the best teams in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I remember when we made the quarterfinals.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I went to San Jose Park and was a part
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me in. I mean, we have not had the most
success in these tournaments, but in that moment it filled
me with national pride that made me want.

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To tap in.

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And I didn't even know anything or have any interest
in soccer at that time. Now that I'm interested, I'm
all the way locked in. The first game we played
Paraguay at so far.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm in there. I'm already in there.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
They got games happening in Santa Clara, which is only
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And I feel like we as a country, the United
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feel a pretty good draw to get us into the
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to be better on one night. We don't have to
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Speaker 2 (04:31):
Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
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It's New Year's Eve and I'm feeling fancy. It's cold outside.
I put on my thick jacket. Look, I got that
and nor a beautiful little The material is crazy. I'm
feeling good out here today, but it's forty degrees in

(04:56):
the Baria. But let me tell you something, It gets
hot when you start talking Jake Paul. Because like him
or not, Jake Paul got a little something with him. Now,
Jake Paul just.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Got his head bashed by Anthony Joshua. Right, that was about.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
As big a learning lesson that anyone could have been taught.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Here's the problem. Jake Paul is proven to be. He's
proven to be.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
One hard headed two more bold and brave than anyone
could have ever imagined. Now, bold and brave because he
fought Anthony Joshua to begin with, bold and brave because
they didn't put any things in place to make sure
Anthony didn't do exactly what he did to him, broke
his jaw in multiple places, got him sucking out of straw.

(05:53):
It would seem like his bold and brave attitude really
cost him. And with that bold and brave attitude, a
lot of times come cowardice after.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Not Jake Paul. Not Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
You can love him, you can hate him, but he's
brave and now he's still trying to fight you. I
would have thought, I swear to god, guys, I would
have thought that after what happened with Anthony joshuall, Jake
Paul would say, okay, let me rematch Anderson or somebody.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Anderson, by the way, that if he had hit Jake Paul.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
The way he hit Tyron Woodley the other day, would
have knocked him out, because that's the Andrew Silvera we know.
But you would have thought that Jake Paul would go,
you know what, I'm gonna go rematch Anderson. Maybe I
will find another mixed martials guy that's a little bit
over the hill to try to fight where it's more
safe and it's a more controlled environment. Because the problem

(06:45):
with Anthony Joshua fight is it wasn't controlled.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
It was just a fight. So that's not Jake Paul,
though he immediately goes back after frances and Gano. It's
crazy to me.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Now, I've asked people in Francis Circle why didn't they
take the fight?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Nobody really knows.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Why, but I believe that after Anthony Joshua took the fight,
Francis maybe more open to fighting Jake Paul. Now I
think when I try to put myself in Francis's shoes,
because if you're a call and the very beginning, Jake
Paul was calling me and saying talking about me.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Part of the reason I was.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
So upset was because I didn't feel like he deserved
to be speaking my name because of all I had done.
And I still viewed him in a certain light at
the time, right, like celebrity boxing and stuff. But after
watching what he's done now in Anthony Joshua taking the

(07:48):
fight and making the money, maybe Francis, if he was
sharing the thought that I had, is more open to
now going Man, maybe I won't make eighty million million
dollars like Anthony Joshua, but.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I may make twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
And it's less dangerous than fighting Tyson Fury or fighting
Anthony Joshua. Because for a small as Jake looked against Anthony,
he'll look equally as small against Francis and Ghanu.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
But I think what's happening with Jake is.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
He's wanting to show that Anthony did not scared into him,
which in reality he probably should have knocked a little
scared into him. He's also doing like MMA or boxing math, right,
he said, I told everyone that I would do better
than Francis, and Francis has no chin. Francis is low

(08:44):
key soft. I'll fight Francis. Wow, that's a good idea. Actually,
so now he's like all in on Francis, but he's
doing that by doing mma math. There were a lot
of differences in that fight, right, A lot of differences
in the fights between them. Two One, Francis didn't run
the whole time Jake did. Francis wasn't on his bike.

(09:07):
Because Francis is six four to sixty five and believes
that there isn't a man alive that could take him out.
That's why he got taken out. Especially after fighting Tyson
Fury in a way that he did and dropping Tyson
Fury the way that he did in their fight. It
gave him a false sense of confidence. I think Jake
paul knew that he needed to go longer than Francis,

(09:30):
but also knew he didn't have the ability to put
Anthony Joshua out. I do believe that if Francis hit
Anthony as clean as Jake did a couple times, he
could have potentially put him down.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
But not only do I believe that Francis did, and.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
That made him stand in the fight more than he
should have, especially in hindsight when we know what happened
and his inexperience showed. But for Jake to say Francis
has no chin, when Joshua hit him with the first
real right hand, he put him down. He put him
out just like he put Francis down.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
There is no difference. So I think this confidence is
once again misguided. You don't you don't.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
You don't call out of Francis and Donald unless you're
certain you can go with him one.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't think he can hurt him.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I just don't know that he can hurt Francis like
he thinks he can hurt Francis. Many people thought Anthony
Joshua had no chint because of what Andy Ruie did
to him. Turns out he's got a decent chant. He's
got a pretty good chin, and Andy Rueie just hits hard.
He's a real boxing heavyweight. Jake landed like three massive
overhand rights. Anthony Joshua just looked at him and kind
of kept pressing him. It's the same thing that would

(10:44):
happen with Francis has gone keeps calling Francis out, and
in reality, if people thought there was a world where
Anthony could carry him into the later rounds to make
it look more competitive, Francis isn't experience enough to do that.
So every throw, every punch will be throwing the intent

(11:07):
to knock you out. It's like Deontay Wilder. Is why
I didn't want Francis to fight Deontay Wilder, because Deontay
Walter does not have that control to carry you. People
say Connor may have carried Floya. Uh sorry, Floyd may
have carried Connor. Floyd has that ability. He's that good
a boxer. He's clean, he's technical, he can fight you
in multiple ways. But when you get to these certain guys,

(11:29):
they can't because all they know is one thing. That's
the danger. In the Jake Paul Franz sin Ganu fight,
it's only knockout for Big Frank.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
He won't pull punches. Tyson Fury may not have taken
Francis as serious as he.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Should have, and that's why he got hit in the
way that he got hit and dropped in the way
that he got dropped.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Francis don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Jake Francis doesn't know how to control and make sure,
the punches don't put your lights off. But this whole
idea that I lasted longer than Francis and Gan who
it was.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Francis could have ran right. Francis could have.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Moved around the ring very well, by the way, which
was a massive ring. The ring was as big as
any ring I've ever seen in my life. He could
have ran around the ring too.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
What what Jake said was what Jake said.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
It was I did better than Francis because I got
knocked out in the sixth round.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Louise as opposed to this, I got one more, I
got one more. Francis is a.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Fifteen hundred favorite against Jake Paul, and Jake is a
plus six hundred. Of course he is because he's Francis,
and Ghan who he's Francis and got who.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
But this is the craziest thought I did better, that
I did better? Argument, guys does not work. It just doesn't.
It was a massive ring, and he was on his bicycle,
and listen, if you can.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Do that for twelve rounds, sure, but eventually he get tired,
because there's nothing worse than running backwards. There's nothing worse
than getting backed up with someone putting pressure on you
it's the worst, But minus fifteen hundred for Francis plus
six hundred for Jake seems about right now. Could never
question the boldness of Jake Paul. You could never question

(13:25):
the toughness of Jake Paul. I questioned the smarts because
the money will always come because now he's done that
to a point that people will always respect what he
is doing.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
But that long lasting damage that doesn't fade away with time.
And I don't know that Jake Paul needs that.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
He's a big enough star to where I don't think
he needs to keep going in there with real heavyweights
getting knocked out by these guys. Because Anthony Joshua was
big and when he looked at me, looked at his chess,
that is exactly what he would look at if he
fought Francis and Ghana guys.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think he needs to reconsider.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
And this is from a person that at one point
had an issue with Jake Paul. Today that's water under
the bridge. I actually got more respect for Jake Paul
than I ever thought I could because of what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
But in those comments, let me know what y'all think.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Should Jake Paul fight Francis, and if he does, what's
the expectation or what's the expected outcome when you guys
think of it, Because hey, Jarzeno Alesta Overreen stepe A
miochicch all the greatest mixed martial arts heavyweights, frances knocked out.

(14:42):
Telling me that Tyson Fury he put down. You're telling
me that this kid's being able to fight Francis and
Nano because he did better against Anthony Joshua m May.
Math does not work, and I don't think it works
in boxing either. So my work in football, basketball, all
those other things where you don't have to punch each other, but.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't think it works in combat sports. Let me
know the comments what you think. Happy New Year, guys.
I appreciate you. I will see you in twenty twenty six.
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