{"id":597026,"date":"2026-05-21T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:25:08","slug":"no-chance-rico-verhoevens-jump-to-boxing-spared-him-merciless-beating-from-francis-ngannou-stay-away-from-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597026\/","title":{"rendered":"No chance! Rico Verhoeven\u2019s jump to boxing spared him merciless beating from Francis Ngannou \u2014 \u2018Stay away from that\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It also spared him a merciless beating from ex-UFC champ Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI think against Francis, he would not [stand] much of a chance,\u201d retired MMA and kickboxing veteran, Alistair Overeem, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yFuZkNPQE5o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Helwani.<\/a> \u201cJust basically because he\u2019s missing the wrestling and the submissions. He\u2019s just not training that. It takes years to develop that, and it shouldn\u2019t be underestimated, and I think that he and his team have made a wise choice to kind of stay out of MMA, because you\u2019re just not gonna catch up with those years of experience just like that in a training camp. Francis Ngannou is totally a no-go area. Stay away from that. Francis is clever. He\u2019s just going to win the fight \u2014 and it would not even be a difficult fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also spared him a merciless beating from ex-UFC champ Francis Ngannou. \u201dI think against Francis, he would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,30874,114938,30367,101,914,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-glory-k-1-kickboxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}