{"id":268644,"date":"2018-01-25T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268644"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:30:45","slug":"francis-ngannous-coach-shares-one-positive-takeaway-stipe-miocic-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannous-coach-shares-one-positive-takeaway-stipe-miocic-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou’s coach shares one positive takeaway from Stipe Miocic fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re now almost a week removed from Francis Ngannou’s tough loss<\/a> to UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic<\/a>. This loss was as lopsided as they come, as Ngannou emptied his gas tank early, and spent the rest of the five-round affair clinging to life opposite the patient and powerful Miocic.<\/p>\n

While Ngannou’s first crack at the UFC heavyweight title was more or less a disaster, his coach Fernand Lopez feels there are a few positives that can be taken away from the bout: namely, Ngannou showed he’s got heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight didn\u2019t go our way, that\u2019s clear for all to see,\u201d Lopez told MMANytt<\/a>. \u201cWe were expecting the level of skills that Stipe brought, he was awesome and his levels changes were beautiful. We were lucky he didn\u2019t try to finish Francis, but he didn\u2019t every try to commit to many submission or anything. There were some good things that Francis did. He showed amazingly bravery and he never gave up. No one was thinking it would ever go 25-minutes, but Francis hung in there in the face of great adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did a good job to hang there, but I won\u2019t lie, I was disappointed. When I saw Francis rush in and throw a high kick, I was shocked,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t at all in the gameplan. That must\u2019ve been Stipe\u2019s dream. Have someone rush him and try to take his head off. That made it easy for him to change level and get the takedown. As a cornerman, you simply can\u2019t do anything. The gameplan was to manage the range and throw some combos, but be cautious and to step back out and keep the distance so he couldn\u2019t bring his wrestling. That didn\u2019t happen.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019ve not talked to Francis about it yet. I don\u2019t like to have a debrief straight after the fight. I like to have two weeks to let the fighter think and digest the fight. When he\u2019s ready, two weeks later I\u2019ll talk with him and try to understand why he went for that gameplan and that strategy. I didn\u2019t expect what happened. The gameplan was so different, but Francis just went rushing after him, hunting him and yeah it just wasn\u2019t what we had planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think is next for Francis Ngannou?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 1\/24\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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