I’ll say this.. MUCH credit to Ngannou.
Sure, he was way out of his depth here. But, he risked coming to one of the toughest sports from a sport where you can spend alot of time keeping yourself safe from much painful damage simply by wrestling around on the ground.
No one is going to bash the bravery it takes to wrestle around in mma. Sure, most will point and giggle a bit at it. Many will decry it for not being all that much noble and masculine. But the fact remains: it’s a viable sport, there’s definitely a learning curve, and numerous soccer moms have shed quite a few unsightly pounds by doing mma.
That’s why it’s all that more impressive that one of these mma kids risked coming to boxing where he could really get hurt in a way that only rarely occurs in mma.