Former Bellator light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov expected of Renan Ferreira more serious competition in a duel with Francis Ngannou who returned to MMA after a two-year hiatus.
During the PFL tournament in Saudi Arabia, Francis Ngannou, a 38-year-old French MMA fighter of Cameroonian origin, fought his first MMA fight after leaving the UFC organization as heavyweight champion. In the fourth minute of the third round, Ngannou defeated Renan Ferreira by technical knockout. Previously, a French fighter rejected the candidacy of Russian Nemkov as a replacement fighter. Nemkov was Bellator’s light heavyweight champion and moved to the heavyweight division after the organization merged with the PFL.
– How do you find the fight?
— I watched this fight live, but, to be honest, I thought Ferreira would be more competitive. He simply gave up his stance, turned around and started missing shots.
“Were you more surprised that he allowed himself to be transferred or that he did such a poor job down there?”
“He could have agreed to the transfer because he didn’t expect Ngannou to fight him, but later he gave up the position quite easily.
— Doesn’t it seem like he basically gave up down there and gave up the fight himself?
“I think the blows were serious, especially since some hit the back of the head.” And Ngannou saw where he was punching, so he’s unlikely to fake a knockout.
— Many fighters said Ngannou had no fight, but Ngannou won the fight for the second MMA fight in a row.
“It’s just that all fighters have different ideas about wrestling. The question here is who his opponents were and how Ferreira entered the fight.
– Can you imagine that you will stop his transfer to the ground?
– I think I would have stopped. It’s unlikely he would have transferred me so easily. I think he wouldn’t have fought with me, but I could have fought and wrestled with him in a standing position.
— We can roughly imagine your sparring partners, but with whom would you prepare Ngannou?
– There are no such people in our gymnasium, we need to take more guys, this is how Kirill Kornilov and Vova Daineko got to the training camp now. But you still won’t find something 100% similar,” Nemkov told .
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