{"id":265207,"date":"2017-12-07T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265207"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:22:12","slug":"francis-ngannou-hunt-mmas-first-homegrown-heavyweight-superstar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-hunt-mmas-first-homegrown-heavyweight-superstar-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou and the Hunt for MMA\u2019s First Homegrown Heavyweight Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White\u2019s thoughts on Francis Ngannou could not be clearer. When the UFC President talks about the hulking French-Cameroonian heavyweight contender, his eyes might as well light up with dollar signs. In Ngannou, he believes he has found a future superstar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we keep this guy active, and you see him doing this to all the big stars that you know and yeah, I think this guy\u2019s going to be a rock star globally,\u201d White said at the UFC 218 post-fight press conference, just hours after Ngannou punched Alistair Overeem\u2019s head into the outer reaches of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at him, he looks like the heavyweight champion of the world,\u201d he added. \u201cI mean he looks like the heavyweight champion of something. The guy is a monster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked incredible tonight\u2026 That\u2019s as impressive a heavyweight knockout as you\u2019ll ever see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s not wrong. Francis Ngannou\u2019s knockout of Alistair Overeem, dealt with a punch that looked like it could have derailed a train, was absolutely impressive. One second, he and Overeem were exchanging. The next, he was celebrating his latest win, while Overeem lay supine beneath the Jumbotron, eyes lifeless, toes curled like fiddleheads.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the kind of carnage we\u2019ve come to expect from Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p>In the short time he\u2019s been in the MMA limelight, he\u2019s already shoehorned himself into an especially destructive group of combat sports athletes; a small circle populated by behemoths like Mike Tyson, Earnie Shavers, Dan Henderson and Anthony Johnson. The combat sports world is crawling with hard punchers, but like the aforementioned men, there seems to be something special about Ngannou\u2019s fists. They seem <em>extra <\/em>concussive; like being hit with a 40-pound dumbbell fired out of a cannon. When he lands, you worry for his opponents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Worry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As distracting as Ngannou\u2019s victory was, that\u2019s what many onlookers felt as Overeem was scraped off the canvas by a concerned group of officials and physicians, and we\u2019re likely to endure this uncomfortable feeling again Ngannou\u2019s career continues to unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Ngannou\u2019s next fight, of course, is far from a guaranteed win. Instead, it is likely to be the toughest challenge of his career thus far, as he\u2019s expected to take on reigning UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/stipe-miocic\/report-stipe-miocic-getting-closer-to-massive-heavyweight-title-clash-at-ufc-220\/\">probably at UFC 220 on January 20<sup>th<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miocic, who is a truly destructive fighter in his own right\u2014and an active firefighter\u2014seems to possess plenty of the qualities you\u2019d expect the UFC to associate with stardom. For whatever reason, however, he\u2019s never received much of a push from the promotion, and it\u2019s hard to say if he\u2019ll get that push if he beats Ngannou. What is certain, however, is that Ngannou will unfailingly receive a rocket-fuelled push if he captures the heavyweight title from Miocic. The promotion is sure to make a massive investment in their new heavyweight king in an effort to turn him into a mainstream hit.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing is that, if the chips land the way the UFC clearly hopes they will, Ngannou could arguably be called the promotion\u2019s first <em>real <\/em>heavyweight superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know what many of you are probably thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrock Lesnar was a <em>real<\/em> heavyweight star!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair point. Yet Brock Lesnar\u2019s stardom was not a product of his success in MMA, but his success as a pro wrestler. Though he helmed many blockbuster UFC pay-per-views, and enjoyed a brief stint as the promotion\u2019s apex predator, he was a star before he ever stepped foot in the Octagon, and he remains a star today, when he could not be further from it.<\/p>\n<p>If Ngannou were to evolve into a star of Lesnar\u2019s caliber, he\u2019d be the first, home-grown heavyweight superstar the promotion has ever produced. Another Muhammad Ali or <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/joe-rogan-opens-up-on-the-ufcs-rising-star-that-can-mirror-the-mike-tyson-days\/\">Mike Tyson<\/a> for this sport, and more importantly, this generation. Another Randy Couture, Cain Velasquez or Junior dos Santos, but with the traits to regularly pass the 600,000 pay-per-view mark. Another <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/ronda-rousey\/\">Ronda Rousey<\/a>, but standing at a towering six-foot-four, and weighing in at 265-pounds of rippling muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this would all seem to hinge on Francis Ngannou\u2019s defeating Stipe Miocic, but all the ingredients are there. He\u2019s got the rags-to-riches story, having drifted from a rugged town in Cameroon, to the streets of Paris, to the bright light of the UFC. He\u2019s got the God-given ability, having stormed through the UFC heavyweight ranks, leaving a trail of mushroom clouds in his wake. He\u2019ll soon have the ability to cut some solid promos on the mic, having dedicated himself to learning English&#8230; It would seem to be a matter of time before the movie roles, book deals and Hollywood appearances commence.<\/p>\n<p>Though Dana White has falsely identified new superstars in the past\u2014Sage Northcutt, Paige VanZant, Eric Silva, the list goes on\u2014he might well be right this time around. Francis Ngannou might just evolve into MMA\u2019s first, true, homegrown heavyweight superstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White\u2019s thoughts on Francis Ngannou could not be clearer. When the UFC President talks about the hulking French-Cameroonian heavyweight contender, his eyes might as well light up with dollar signs. 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