Francis Ngannou bought far too snug and complacent with himself main into his struggle towards Anthony Joshua, so says Dillian Whyte. Speaking to Sky Sports, Whyte reacted to Ngannou’s knockout loss and feedback that Ngannou didn’t take Joshua as severely as he wanted to based mostly upon how he carried out towards Tyson Fury.
“I feel that struggle gave him false confidence to the purpose the place, when he was getting hammered with large punches, he stayed within the pocket and he wasn’t attempting to maneuver his head or maintain or something,” Whyte mentioned. “He went down, stood up in the identical place. Didn’t transfer his head, went down, stood up in the identical place and mainly waited for the third proper hand.”
The top outcome wasn’t stunning for Whyte, who says he knew all alongside that Joshua would deal with enterprise based mostly upon his expertise and energy. And to the tip Whyte believes he would’ve finished the identical to Ngannou, as he had beforehand tried to get that struggle.
“I attempted to struggle Ngannou 4 years in the past,” he mentioned. “I might have positively knocked him out. I mentioned I might struggle him in boxing and MMA. I all the time believed I might knock him out as a result of the boxing potential isn’t there.”
Whyte (29-3, 19 KOs) is at present scheduled to tackle Christian Hammer this weekend in Castlebar, Eire and says he’s excited for each the struggle and the alternatives that will likely be there for him afterwards. Whyte nonetheless has world title aspirations and appears to get his title again within the combine with the top-tier heavyweights.
