Ngannou's Dominant Return to MMA and Cyborg's PFL Victory

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00:00Why don't we start off talking about, of course, when everybody was tuning in for Naganu, going

00:09back into MMA for the first time in years against Ferreira, he gets that quick round

00:13one finish.

00:14I thought that he would use that grappling that we first saw in that Serial Gaunt fight

00:18against the big guy Ferreira.

00:19What I did not expect is him to just dominate like he did so quickly.

00:23I thought Ferreira would give a little bit more fight, maybe get over that one and a

00:25half rounds.

00:26He works his way back in for the first time, gets that ring rust off, but he didn't show

00:30any ring rust.

00:31He showed that he is still the Predator that we knew and loved from so many years ago.

00:37He looked fantastic.

00:38He looked stronger, but lighter and leaner than he has in his last couple of fights.

00:44Certainly in his boxing matches, he came in quite heavy.

00:47He looked a little slower than normal, but this time around, he came in at 256 or something.

00:53He moved incredibly quickly, was able to get Ferreira down to the floor and maul him

00:58a lot quicker than I was expecting.

01:00One thing I will say is that Ferreira's triangle attempt was pretty good.

01:04We can clearly see that his ground game is developing, but Ngannou just took him straight

01:09out of his comfort zone.

01:10He was able to avoid that big right hand, put him on the floor, and then the power of

01:14Ngannou is dangerous wherever you go, especially if you're stuck up against the fence on the

01:19floor.

01:21Yeah, absolutely fierce.

01:23He's going to go down as one of the best heavyweights of all time.

01:26Someone who is already down as one of the best of all time and continues to prove that

01:29she deserves to be talked as one of the GOATs is Chris Cyborg, who also came in there winning

01:35a title for the PFL there against Pacheco, who was a tough opponent.

01:39Really, unless you were ... Kayla Harrison was someone who couldn't get the best of Pacheco.

01:44That's the only one who was beating her.

01:45She got the best in their third matchup.

01:46Then since Kayla went and tried other promotions, Pacheco has been running the PFL, 10 fights

01:52that she won in a row, and it proves that all that doesn't matter when you face one

01:56of the best of all time in Cyborg, who, again, did it maybe unconventionally from what we

02:00are used to.

02:01I think the takedowns were the things that kind of put her over the top.

02:03They both had their moments on the feet, but Cyborg throwing in that wrestling, that grappling

02:07that we're not used to seeing, that might have been the things to seal it for her.

02:10Yeah, I agree.

02:12She looked very strong, particularly with that first takedown that she hit.

02:16It completely caught Pacheco off guard, just powered straight through her.

02:20She looked very strong with those level changes, and that, I think, is where experience showed

02:25through.

02:26I think it was quite clear that Pacheco, much like Henan Fajeda in a lot of ways, she's

02:30developing.

02:31She's maybe not quite hit her peak yet, and the experience of Cyborg showed through.

02:36Even with the damage that she sustained in the first couple of rounds, she wasn't shaken

02:40by it.

02:41It didn't affect her confidence.

02:43She stayed focused.

02:44She listened to her corner, and she came out with that beautiful shiny belt to add to her

02:50extensive collection.

02:51Yeah, I'm sure.

02:52I hope she has a whole room of those, with all the things that she's done in MMA and

02:57boxing.

02:58She just continues to amaze, even at her age, just dominating still.

03:01Another guy who dominated was Eblen, keeping his belt against Edwards in that rematch.

03:06The first fight was a lot of, not necessarily back and forth, there was a lot of respect,

03:10a lot of hesitancy at times, maybe.

03:12I thought he wanted to be the first one to make the move before Eblen gets that knockdown

03:14in the third round.

03:15It seemed like Edwards was still fighting that same fight.

03:18Until the fifth round, he was kind of just in there and just waiting to see what Eblen

03:22was going to do.

03:23He never really turned it on until it was too late, otherwise it might have been a much

03:25different fight.

03:26I agree.

03:27I think the threat of being taken down by Eblen, of course, was keeping Fabian hesitant

03:34to open up, but at the same time, when he did in the fifth round, I think he was really

03:38able to see what he was capable of.

03:41He was able to land a significant amount of strikes on Eblen compared to the other

03:45rounds.

03:46I think he'll be annoyed with himself, but ultimately, that's where Eblen shows he's

03:50the champion.

03:51He shows those championship qualities he did in that last fight with that nasty cut that

03:54he got from the elbow, being able to regroup and come and get the finish when he really

03:58needed it.

03:59This time around, he showed great body lock wrestling, as he always does.

04:03I think his striking is clearly improving, and I think one thing that needs to come off

04:08of Amit is his striking, is his confidence in his striking.

04:12He always knows that he's got that wrestling to fall back on, which gives him that ability

04:17to maraud forward, if you like, and land heavy shots, but at the same time, I think he has

04:24to realize that he's got power in his hands as well.

04:27Because people are expecting that wrestling game, he might be able to surprise a few people

04:31with that, the pop in his punches in future fights.

04:38I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:42in future fights.

04:43I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:45in future fights.

04:46I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:47in future fights.

04:48I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:49in future fights.

04:50I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:51in future fights.

04:52I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:53in future fights.

04:54I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches

04:55in future fights.

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