UFC fighter Veronica Macedo on the Full Reptile YouTube channel shared her prediction for the duel between Francis Ngannou and Cyril Gan.
Macedo has been training at the MMA Factory in Paris for a long time and knows both fighters well.
Veronica Macedo: “Cyril loves game sparring, he is great at it. And there are situations when he starts playing and runs into a group of other fighters nearby. MMA Factory is a small hall for the number of people who work there. And he flies with a blow, and here other people are standing – and he sharply reins himself, even dives. In order not to knock them down, do not hit. Francis is not like that. If he runs into other fighters in such a sparring, he will not do anything. Because he is the king. Others must move, not him. And so it is in everything. I think their situation with Fernand is just a clash of characters. There is nothing very personal here, just two characters collided. Here is his current coach Eric Niksik – after every action of Francis he tells him: “Great, great, super.” Francis loves this, and he grows from it. There are fighters who relax from praise, but Francis grows from them.
Dan Hardy: “Cyril Gan is afraid of Ngannou’s power?”
Veronica Macedo: “I think he is afraid. How can you not be afraid of her? He already felt her. I don’t want to offend any of them, they are both my friends, but in this published sparring story, I am on Francis’s side. I know he dropped Cyril. I saw how their sparring went. Cyril took it out again and again, hit and hit. Francis would get pissed off and start waving terribly, and even if he hit it casually, then… I also want to say that Cyril has access to amazing training conditions. Anyone from the Olympic wrestling center can be brought to him. By boxing. In this camp, he worked with a guy, I forgot his last name, a participant in the World Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. Such a giant. Guys from Dagestan help him in the fight. All this greatly develops him.”
Dan Hardy: “Who won?”
Veronica Macedo: “I think, after all, Cyril will win. ahead of schedule in the 4th round. It seems to me that Francis will be emotional because of this whole story, including the relationship with the UFC. There is also such a thing – Francis is easy to piss off in battle, to upset. I think that’s what Cyril will do until it leads to victory.”
Ngannou and Gan will fight on January 22 at UFC 270 in Anaheim.
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