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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Luke Thomas, Morning Combat. We just did the

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Speaker 1: watch along for the last two and a half hours.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do another two and a half. I'm

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Speaker 1: Saudis did, which was just took forever to get things done.

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Speaker 1: But let's react a little bit to what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: So just wrapped up in the books Fury and Ghanu, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want to give you just the quickest results and

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Speaker 1: then let's react to them as best we can try

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Speaker 1: and put it all together. Tyson Fury defeats Francis and

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Speaker 1: Ganu via split decision. Your scores ninety five ninety four

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Speaker 1: and Ghanu ninety six ninety three. Fury ninety five ninety four.

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Speaker 1: Fury our own Brian Campbell had it a little bit wider.

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Speaker 1: I was not scoring in real time. I don't have

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Speaker 1: a great score for you, but I would say that

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Speaker 1: anything on either side feels about right. Again. I just

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Speaker 1: I don't see anything egregious here. I don't see ninety

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Speaker 1: as egregious either. Okay, but that is not the story

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Speaker 1: of the fight, ladies and gentlemen. Here is the story

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Speaker 1: of the fight. Let me just start off by saying this,

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Speaker 1: apologies to Francis Nganu, Apologies on behalf of Morning Combat,

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Speaker 1: apologies on behalf of me. We all liked Francis, right,

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Speaker 1: We were not one of these people like, what's he

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Speaker 1: not got anywhere to go, No, no, no. We were real

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Speaker 1: happy for him, right, So we're we're not haters in

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Speaker 1: that kind of way or just irrational skeptics about a

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Speaker 1: very talented and perseverent man. But we all thought that

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Speaker 1: the buck was gonna stop here, right. We all thought that, Okay, okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: he's done amazingly well, he's exceeded expectations even just getting

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Speaker 1: to this point. But you know, he's gonna lock up

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Speaker 1: with Tyson Fury, who is the best heavyweight boxer at

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Speaker 1: but you know, the lineal champion, the WBC champion, the

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Speaker 1: What happened here tonight. What happened here tonight is one

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Speaker 1: Fury in the third round, and Tyson Fury never ever

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Speaker 1: really got going whatever rounds he did score. And again,

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Speaker 1: I don't think any scorecard for him is unreasonable. I

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Speaker 1: really don't. I know that there's some handwringing on social

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Speaker 1: media that everyone in MMA thinks that Francis was robbed. Again,

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Speaker 1: I didn't score, but it does seem like could I

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Speaker 1: see a case where Fury could cobble together a few rounds? Yes,

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Speaker 1: would have been great for Francis. But I mean, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: doesn't even matter. He knocks Fury down in the third round. Legitimately,

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Speaker 1: he showed much better defense than we ever thought possible.

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Speaker 1: his left eye he had. Fury had a much worse

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Speaker 1: but clearly there was a difference, and it was Fury

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Speaker 1: Here's the other part of the story. Not only did

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Speaker 1: If not, it's no big deal, but I would like

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Speaker 1: to show the people if there's any kind of way.

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Speaker 1: Let me see here very quickly, I'm gonna send this

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Speaker 1: while I can. All right, So, overall, Fury landed a

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Speaker 1: twenty six percent overall. Let's see overall power punches landed

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Speaker 1: Fury seventy one punches to Nganu's fifty nine. Total jabs

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Speaker 1: let's see, I'm gonna pace that right there for you.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. I'm assaid it in the private chat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's nuts, that's nuts. Now. They were all landing single

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Speaker 1: And by the way, in MMA two, the judges often

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Speaker 1: But this is the story, This is the story of

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Speaker 1: this fight, Francis and Ghanu. Francis and Ganu should be

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Speaker 1: He's the lineal heavyweight MMA champion who, in his box debut,

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Speaker 1: most hard luck story imaginable, the sand mines in Cameroon,

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Speaker 1: All these times MMA fighters go out there and just

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Speaker 1: he's pricing himself out of your fucking bracket. That's what

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Speaker 1: But is he gonna fight Deontay Wilder next? Is he

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Speaker 1: had a conversation with Kareems of Dan you could investigative

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Speaker 1: journalists who's covered this. You can check it out at

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Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Morning Combat if you want to

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Speaker 1: get into more of that. But tonight, the winner, in

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Speaker 1: addition to being Saudi Arabia by the way, and being

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Speaker 1: the future of potentially the home of major combat sports events,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get going because my kid is having a meltdown,

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Speaker 1: y'all can hear? I gotta get going. The winner tonight

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Speaker 1: is Francis Nganu.