It's not going to be easy, but in heavyweight boxing anything is possible. And for Francis Ngannou to beat Tyson Fury -- and shock the world -- the key could be in his boxing fundamentals.
Former UFC champion Francis Ngannou, above, is facing boxing champion Tyson Fury in a heavyweight match on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Teddy Atlas joined ESPN in September 1998 to serve as ringside analyst for ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, the weekly series, which premiered October 3, 1998. He handles a similar role for ESPN Boxing Specials, and frequently contributes analysis to SportsCenter and ESPNEWS.
A lot of people will look at this fight as a money grab, but I think it's a dangerous money grab -- and more dangerous for the guy who is supposedly going to win easily. Fury is of course expected to have his way in this fight. He's an elite boxer, the heavyweight champion of the world. But what if Fury doesn't take him seriously?
When you have power, that's your confessional booth -- you can go in there and confess and be cleaned of all sins. If the fight isn't going your way, but you land a big punch, the fight is different from that point on. That's the one thing that I don't think people are putting enough emphasis on leading into Saturday. That one punch can erase a lot of Fury's advantages and a lot of Ngannou mistakes made during the night.
My mentor Cus D'Amato drilled this into my head. He used to say, 'No matter how much power you have, it's like a military weapon. It has no value if there's no way to get it to the target."Ngannou needs to control his ego. I know he thinks and believes he can't learn everything that Fury knows and become an elite boxer with just a few months of training, but he can learn boxing fundamentals.
So how should Ngannou deal with Fury's jab? Using his own jab. And it factors into both sides of the street -- offensive and defensive side. It also neutralizes. Ngannou will have to find a way to throw jabs so that Fury knows there's a jab coming back at him -- instead of Fury having free reign on jabs all night. Ngannou needs to make him think in spots about even throwing. The jab of Ngannou is a key -- he's tall, athletic, strong -- his jab reminds me of George Foreman's.
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