{"id":302334,"date":"2019-02-18T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=302334"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:41:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:41:30","slug":"francis-ngannou-assures-he-dropped-cain-velasquez-with-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/francis-ngannou-assures-he-dropped-cain-velasquez-with-a-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou assures he dropped Cain Velasquez with a punch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night, in the headlining bout of the UFC’s debut event on ESPN, Francis Ngannou picked up arguably the biggest win of his career, defeating former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez in less than 30 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of this fight, however, there’s been some debate as to whether or not Velasquez was put down by Ngannou’s punches, the knee injury he sustained, or a grisly combination of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ngannou says that, after watching the fight back, he’s confident that his punches spelled the end for the former champion. More specifically, he believes he dropped Velasquez with an uppercut, which is when the knee injury occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo, because the knee buckled after an uppercut on his chin,\u201d Ngannou said at the post-fight press conference (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cYou can look at the video about it, so you can find out and you will see the uppercut. That might be why his knee buckled, because he got disconnected.
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\u201cIn the fight, I couldn\u2019t see that, but I watched the video and you guys can also watch the video,\u201d he added. \u201cSo when the uppercut, that shot connected he just fell right way. I think that\u2019s what hurt his knee.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, Cain Velasquez claims that none of the punches<\/a> Francis Ngannou threw had him in any real trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was just the knee, he didn\u2019t even, like, touch me, you know?\u201d Velasquez said post-fight. \u201cIt was just the knee, as soon as I felt the knee just buckle, it was like I couldn\u2019t believe that happened. And then that was it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoing in for his leg, I felt he kind of clubbed me on the back of the head, but that didn\u2019t graze me at all,\u201d Velasquez continued. \u201cNone of the punches grazed me at all or did anything to myself where I felt like I was unbalanced or anything. Just getting in on the inside and it was just a freak thing that happened with my knee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did you make of the finishing sequence in last night’s Francis Ngannou vs. Cain Velasquez fight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 2\/18\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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