Francis Ngannou knocked out Renan Ferreira in the first round of their heavyweight match in the PFL Battle of the Giants, and Daniel Cormier is bringing you his INSTANT REACTION following the action. DC breaks down what Ngannou did to dominate the matchup and why this win means so much to Francis' career. And don't miss Cormier give his take on why Francis Ngannou proved he still is the most feared heavyweight in all of MMA. #Volume #Herd
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
All Right, guys, Francison Gan, who just won his return
fight against Hinon Fordeta.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
First round knockout.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Look, you always wonder what a guy's gonna look like
when he's been away for a long time, especially in
Francis's situation when he was dealing with so much personally.
You know, sometimes it kind of works right, Sometimes it
(02:20):
kind of works.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There was a lot of.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Questions as to who Frances and Ghana would be after
being out of the fight game and mixed martial arts
for as long as he's been there were questions who
would France and Ghanu be whenever he's dealing with the
loss of his son Kobe, and how emotional that has
to be for someone trying to compete on the world's
(02:44):
grandest stage. I mean, I know it's not the UFC,
but still pfl in Saudi Arabia, an arena that's.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Familiar to him. You don't know what you get?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, it was a resounding Francis and Ghana is still
frances and Ghanu. Fight starts, big leg kick by Francis,
spins Pajeta around. Bejeta lands a big leg kick of
his own.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Then, as we have.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Come to see here lately, in fighting, it's not just
about Francison Ganu knocking you out as.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was before.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Big Frank shoots a double leg on this dude. Remember
Cyril Gan took Cyril Gan down. That's how he defended
his championship in Anaheim before he left the UFC. Francis
shoots a double leg, tanks Fneeda down. Fordeda throws up
a triangle choke. Francis defends and then goes to work
with right hands. Punch, punch, punch, Pajeta goes flat. Fight ends.
(03:44):
I'm in my house screaming. I'm in my house screaming
because I wanted Francison Ganu to win. The world wanted
Francison Ganu to win because of everything that he's gone
to and then a guy like going through those personal things,
(04:05):
losing something as precious as a child. If you aren't
rooting for him in the beginning as a human being,
you're rooting for him in there. So sometimes it works,
you get the happy ending. Everything doesna have to be
like Coach Carter the movie Coach Carter Kids shooting three
(04:26):
pointer to win the state championship. It gets blocked. You
guys should watch it. It's a great movie. Samuel L.
Jackson's the coach. But it doesn't always have to end
like that. It can end with the guy that is
the good guy getting his hand raised.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Today we got that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We got Francis becoming the PFL Super Heavyweight super Fight Champion.
We got Francis beating a guy in Hidden fore Haita,
who was bigger than him, who was scary, who seemed dangerous,
And if I'm completely honest.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I was worried.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was very worried when I watched these two come
into contact. I was very worried when I saw those
guys actually face off, when it seemed to get tense,
I was worried. I was very worried because I know
the emotional toll it takes on you when you are
(05:24):
dealing with losing something like Frances lost. I know the
totlet takes Frances and I are friends. We spoke after this,
this horrible tragedy. Francis spoke publicly about knowing whether or
(05:44):
not he should come back and compete. Francis did this
with a very heavy heart, but he also recognized, and
he said it in his post fight interview, he does
this now for his son. So if France Ain't Ghana
wasn't scary enough, right, if Francison Ghanu wasn't terrifying enough
as the baddest man on the planet, imagine him now
(06:06):
with those motivations, with the motivations of carrying that extra
I've got to do this for this. Imagine how scary
he is now. Those guys, Eric Nixon, Dewey Cooper, Franceston Ganu.
(06:27):
I love watching them because it's not only a great
coaching staff training a great athlete, but they're family. You
can watch in the emotion that these guys showed after
the fight. You watch Eric, He's crying, hugging Francis. Dewey's
filming as he does after every fight, but he's crying
the whole time. Those guys have done so much together.
(06:49):
To watch them have that success through all the turmoil
and the chaos and in the emotions, it's great for
I remember watching him in the boxing ring and watching
those guys and it felt like it was us.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We had all made it, Mma had all made it.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Francis had crossed over to the biggest fights in boxing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Night.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It felt like I watched that same family come back
home the mixed martial arts and accomplished something great through
a hurricane of emotions and just the most. I don't
think there's a situation that we can compare it to,
but to watch him overcome like that was amazing for me,
and as a friend of Francis and Gan Who, as
(07:28):
a fan of Francis and Gan Who, it was awesome.
So when you watch that, do you ask yourself, is
Francis still the best heavyweight in the world? Is he?
I don't know. I don't know that you can compare
him into those guys, these two has too many holes
(07:51):
in his game. But when you watch Francis what he
did tonight, he does to all those guys that he
fought before. If he didn't do it any more impress fashion.
So I can't say that he isn't one of the
best heavyweights in the world, because what did we see
that showed slippage? What did we see that told us
(08:12):
that frances and Ganou isn't the guy he was when
he left in twenty twenty two when he was the
UFC heavyweight champion. For my money, aspinall, Francis Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Those guys all live in a bubble.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't think that you could separate one from the
other because he has not been competing in mixed martial arts.
I think tonight Francis cubmitted himself still as one of
the greatest heavyweights in the world, if not the best
heavyweight fighter in the world right now, right now by
doing what he did is not octagon tonight. Under those
(08:53):
circumstances against the opponent that he had, it would have
been so easy for him to go in there tonight
and if things ever got hard, to kind of pack
it in and go I don't need this. I'm making
more money than I ever made in boxing. I've got
riches and spoils, I've got fame at a level that
I never thought that I could accomplish. But instead of that,
(09:17):
he went and got the job done in one It
was amazing to watch. I loved it. I loved watching
that dude overcome.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It was awesome. Go big, Frank, You're the man.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And honestly, it's very hard to do what he is
doing after leaving the UFC. UFC is a monster, man.
It is the best, biggest fight organization in the world.
It's hard to make a way outside of it. Franceon
Ganno has somehow done that. And when we all told
him go back, run back, this isn't for you, he
(09:53):
stood on his business. He went and made all that
money in boxing and now he's back in MMA as
one of the best fighters in the world. So hats
off to Francis and Gongo. He deserves it. Chris Cyborg
also beat Larissa Pacheco in the co main event Guys
forty nine to forty six across the board was kind
of what you watched, That's the fight I watched. I
(10:17):
think that Chris Cyborg because she's been so dominating her career.
When a fight seems close, it's not really that close.
It was like Amanda newna Is at the end of
her career when she beat Juliana the last time. She
won every round and had like two ten eight rounds,
but because Juliana is so tough, it seemed closer. We
(10:40):
don't judge them based on their dominance. We have to
judge them under the rules of the fight and the
way fights are scored, and that was a pretty easy
fight to score. And Chris Cyborg, I mean, twenty years
she's done this thing and now she's winning more titles.
She's one of the greatest people fighters who've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So hats off to Chris for continuing to really move
the finish line for what women want to accomplish in
mixed martial arts. It's almost impossible. And I watched it.
I watched Francis Box. I watched Francis fight tonight. That
tells you to start that Francis and Ghana is because
(11:26):
otherwise I would not have paid attention. I didn't watch
other people, but I watched Francis and Ghanu and I
watched Chris Cyborg. Those are two people that have done
great in this career man, especially when they aren't in
the UFC. I don't know if I could have done
the things that I did if I wasn't in the UFC.
It's just too hard. It really is too hard. So
(11:47):
those people should be commended for that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Tremendous fight night. I mean, it was awesome to watch
Francis compete. It was awesome to watch Cyborg compete, and
it was awesome to see Francis overcoming the situation that's
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So Francis Kobe.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Smiling down on you, man, he's smiling down on his father,
knowing that his dad got the job done. And always
go out there knowing that you're carrying that little angel
on your shoulders and you got a little extra set
of protection when you go into those octagons. So congrats,
my friend. It was awesome to see, guys, Francis are
(12:23):
getting world championship, not a PFL Super Fight champ.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The job, my guy.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Till next time, guys like subscribe and tell your friends
about DC's YouTube channel, and I'm gonna keep doing stuff
like this. Also, thank you guys for watching three rounds
last week it was awesome and next week massive massive
check ins from the greatest fight night I've seen in
a while. Holloway takes on the iliot to pour you
(12:49):
till next time, Beast guys.
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has gotten going, and it is going great for all
of us fans down in Louisiana. So once again the
boys partnering up with the DraftKings Sports Book to give
you all a fantastic officer. Hopefully, even though your team's losing,
(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
All Right, guys, Francison Gan, who just won his return
fight against Hinon Fordeta.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
First round knockout.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Look, you always wonder what a guy's gonna look like
when he's been away for a long time, especially in
Francis's situation when he was dealing with so much personally.
You know, sometimes it kind of works right, Sometimes it
(02:20):
kind of works.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There was a lot of.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Questions as to who Frances and Ghana would be after
being out of the fight game and mixed martial arts
for as long as he's been there were questions who
would France and Ghanu be whenever he's dealing with the
loss of his son Kobe, and how emotional that has
to be for someone trying to compete on the world's
(02:44):
grandest stage. I mean, I know it's not the UFC,
but still pfl in Saudi Arabia, an arena that's.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Familiar to him. You don't know what you get?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, it was a resounding Francis and Ghana is still
frances and Ghanu. Fight starts, big leg kick by Francis,
spins Pajeta around. Bejeta lands a big leg kick of
his own.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Then, as we have.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Come to see here lately, in fighting, it's not just
about Francison Ganu knocking you out as.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was before.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Big Frank shoots a double leg on this dude. Remember
Cyril Gan took Cyril Gan down. That's how he defended
his championship in Anaheim before he left the UFC. Francis
shoots a double leg, tanks Fneeda down. Fordeda throws up
a triangle choke. Francis defends and then goes to work
with right hands. Punch, punch, punch, Pajeta goes flat. Fight ends.
(03:44):
I'm in my house screaming. I'm in my house screaming
because I wanted Francison Ganu to win. The world wanted
Francison Ganu to win because of everything that he's gone
to and then a guy like going through those personal things,
(04:05):
losing something as precious as a child. If you aren't
rooting for him in the beginning as a human being,
you're rooting for him in there. So sometimes it works,
you get the happy ending. Everything doesna have to be
like Coach Carter the movie Coach Carter Kids shooting three
(04:26):
pointer to win the state championship. It gets blocked. You
guys should watch it. It's a great movie. Samuel L.
Jackson's the coach. But it doesn't always have to end
like that. It can end with the guy that is
the good guy getting his hand raised.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Today we got that.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We got Francis becoming the PFL Super Heavyweight super Fight Champion.
We got Francis beating a guy in Hidden fore Haita,
who was bigger than him, who was scary, who seemed dangerous,
And if I'm completely honest.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I was worried.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was very worried when I watched these two come
into contact. I was very worried when I saw those
guys actually face off, when it seemed to get tense,
I was worried. I was very worried because I know
the emotional toll it takes on you when you are
(05:24):
dealing with losing something like Frances lost. I know the
totlet takes Frances and I are friends. We spoke after this,
this horrible tragedy. Francis spoke publicly about knowing whether or
(05:44):
not he should come back and compete. Francis did this
with a very heavy heart, but he also recognized, and
he said it in his post fight interview, he does
this now for his son. So if France Ain't Ghana
wasn't scary enough, right, if Francison Ghanu wasn't terrifying enough
as the baddest man on the planet, imagine him now
(06:06):
with those motivations, with the motivations of carrying that extra
I've got to do this for this. Imagine how scary
he is now. Those guys, Eric Nixon, Dewey Cooper, Franceston Ganu.
(06:27):
I love watching them because it's not only a great
coaching staff training a great athlete, but they're family. You
can watch in the emotion that these guys showed after
the fight. You watch Eric, He's crying, hugging Francis. Dewey's
filming as he does after every fight, but he's crying
the whole time. Those guys have done so much together.
(06:49):
To watch them have that success through all the turmoil
and the chaos and in the emotions, it's great for
I remember watching him in the boxing ring and watching
those guys and it felt like it was us.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We had all made it, Mma had all made it.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Francis had crossed over to the biggest fights in boxing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Night.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It felt like I watched that same family come back
home the mixed martial arts and accomplished something great through
a hurricane of emotions and just the most. I don't
think there's a situation that we can compare it to,
but to watch him overcome like that was amazing for me,
and as a friend of Francis and Gan Who, as
(07:28):
a fan of Francis and Gan Who, it was awesome.
So when you watch that, do you ask yourself, is
Francis still the best heavyweight in the world? Is he?
I don't know. I don't know that you can compare
him into those guys, these two has too many holes
(07:51):
in his game. But when you watch Francis what he
did tonight, he does to all those guys that he
fought before. If he didn't do it any more impress fashion.
So I can't say that he isn't one of the
best heavyweights in the world, because what did we see
that showed slippage? What did we see that told us
(08:12):
that frances and Ganou isn't the guy he was when
he left in twenty twenty two when he was the
UFC heavyweight champion. For my money, aspinall, Francis Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Those guys all live in a bubble.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't think that you could separate one from the
other because he has not been competing in mixed martial arts.
I think tonight Francis cubmitted himself still as one of
the greatest heavyweights in the world, if not the best
heavyweight fighter in the world right now, right now by
doing what he did is not octagon tonight. Under those
(08:53):
circumstances against the opponent that he had, it would have
been so easy for him to go in there tonight
and if things ever got hard, to kind of pack
it in and go I don't need this. I'm making
more money than I ever made in boxing. I've got
riches and spoils, I've got fame at a level that
I never thought that I could accomplish. But instead of that,
(09:17):
he went and got the job done in one It
was amazing to watch. I loved it. I loved watching
that dude overcome.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It was awesome. Go big, Frank, You're the man.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And honestly, it's very hard to do what he is
doing after leaving the UFC. UFC is a monster, man.
It is the best, biggest fight organization in the world.
It's hard to make a way outside of it. Franceon
Ganno has somehow done that. And when we all told
him go back, run back, this isn't for you, he
(09:53):
stood on his business. He went and made all that
money in boxing and now he's back in MMA as
one of the best fighters in the world. So hats
off to Francis and Gongo. He deserves it. Chris Cyborg
also beat Larissa Pacheco in the co main event Guys
forty nine to forty six across the board was kind
of what you watched, That's the fight I watched. I
(10:17):
think that Chris Cyborg because she's been so dominating her career.
When a fight seems close, it's not really that close.
It was like Amanda newna Is at the end of
her career when she beat Juliana the last time. She
won every round and had like two ten eight rounds,
but because Juliana is so tough, it seemed closer. We
(10:40):
don't judge them based on their dominance. We have to
judge them under the rules of the fight and the
way fights are scored, and that was a pretty easy
fight to score. And Chris Cyborg, I mean, twenty years
she's done this thing and now she's winning more titles.
She's one of the greatest people fighters who've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So hats off to Chris for continuing to really move
the finish line for what women want to accomplish in
mixed martial arts. It's almost impossible. And I watched it.
I watched Francis Box. I watched Francis fight tonight. That
tells you to start that Francis and Ghana is because
(11:26):
otherwise I would not have paid attention. I didn't watch
other people, but I watched Francis and Ghanu and I
watched Chris Cyborg. Those are two people that have done
great in this career man, especially when they aren't in
the UFC. I don't know if I could have done
the things that I did if I wasn't in the UFC.
It's just too hard. It really is too hard. So
(11:47):
those people should be commended for that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Tremendous fight night. I mean, it was awesome to watch
Francis compete. It was awesome to watch Cyborg compete, and
it was awesome to see Francis overcoming the situation that's
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So Francis Kobe.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Smiling down on you, man, he's smiling down on his father,
knowing that his dad got the job done. And always
go out there knowing that you're carrying that little angel
on your shoulders and you got a little extra set
of protection when you go into those octagons. So congrats,
my friend. It was awesome to see, guys, Francis are
(12:23):
getting world championship, not a PFL Super Fight champ.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The job, my guy.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Till next time, guys like subscribe and tell your friends
about DC's YouTube channel, and I'm gonna keep doing stuff
like this. Also, thank you guys for watching three rounds
last week it was awesome and next week massive massive
check ins from the greatest fight night I've seen in
a while. Holloway takes on the iliot to pour you
(12:49):
till next time, Beast guys.
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