Francis Ngannou

That's when I started to do, like, the Superman punch, all this stuff.

For me, he was already a win.

Sparring.

No.

We just do like a normal sparring, have a different sparring partner sometimes to push me.

But we didn't do anything like that, you know.

As an MMA fighter, we used to spar without gloves, without headgear and stuff.

But you get into boxing, everything is so strict, so specific.

And then you get to the point that you kind of ask yourself, why taking a chance to hurt now and get pulled up of the fight?

I'm just going to train.

I train the best that I can.

Then I will get there, figure out what's happening.

For the negotiation?

Yeah, but it's different to like think that, oh, I might have a boxing match.

I want to have a boxing match than when you have a boxing match and knowing who you are going to fight is something different.

You know, you prepare, the real preparation starts now.

And between the moment that we signed the fight to the fight itself, it was over three months.

Because I know that it wasn't my field.

And I didn't have any... And it's not like I was in the gym training, boxing every day.

So it was basically four months.