{"id":272402,"date":"2018-03-13T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272402"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:38:52","slug":"coach-still-proud-of-phenomenal-francis-ngannou-in-defeat-and-promises-impressive-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/coach-still-proud-of-phenomenal-francis-ngannou-in-defeat-and-promises-impressive-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Still Proud of &#8216;Phenomenal&#8217; Francis Ngannou in Defeat and Promises Impressive Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou of the most severe and recent examples of how brutal MMA is and how forgetful fans are. Just before UFC 220, he was primed to be the next big thing and we were already planning mega fights with Brock Lesnar. After Stipe Miocic stifled him, it&#8217;s like he disappeared in the minds of the UFC and the public. His boxing coach Dewey Cooper vows that this won&#8217;t last long. Ngannou will learn from his mistakes and come back even better.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I got one word to describe [Francis Ngannou]: Phenomenal.\u00a0We had an off night and we all felt that night, that Francis at his worst still couldn\u2019t be stopped.\u00a0That\u2019s all I can say about that.\u00a0Francis at his best won\u2019t be defeated and him at his worst could not even be stopped.\u00a0We got the best heavyweight in UFC couldn\u2019t stop a guy who was just not at his best that night.\u00a0Francis man, he\u2019s phenomenal and he will definitely be back stronger than ever. [&#8230;] Stipe was at his best and we just weren\u2019t at our best and there will be improvement from that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unfortunately it didn&#8217;t go on my way last night but I learned some different aspects of this sport and I&#8217;ll come back stronger! TRUST ME &#x261d; . <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC220?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC220<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francis NGannou (@francis_ngannou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou\/status\/955142668635594753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There will be experience and knowledge from that [loss] and Francis will definitely be a UFC heavyweight champion that\u2019s for sure.\u00a0The team he has now, with or without them, he\u2019s something special. He has everything. He has all that inside of him. He\u2019s going to be that guy, believe that.\u00a0The experience he learned was very valuable and it sure won\u2019t happen again just from having that experience. We all know what happened and he will be better for it for sure. We will all be better for it.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rde8FlDpR3I\">Coach Dewey Cooper speaking on the Slip n&#8217; Dip Podcast<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/dewey-cooper-francis-ngannou-return-ever-the-heavyweight-ufc-history-couldnt-stop-him\/\">MMA NYTT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s absolutely right. Stipe Miocic has put away Mark Hunt, Andrei Arlovski, Fabricio Werdum, Alistair Overeem and even Junior dos Santos, but he couldn&#8217;t finish Francis Ngannou. Despite being controlled and pushed into exhausting deep waters, that&#8217;s a great accomplishement in-and-of-itself for the terrifying heavyweight contender. 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