The hurdle for Francis Ngannou was Renan Ferreira, who at 6-foot-8 stood there like an inferno of humanity glaring across the PFL cage at the man nobody aside from the cold betting public wanted to see lose. That’s where all thoughts had been concentrated for the last several months, and that’s as far into the future as Ngannou cared to look.
Everything else? It had to wait. The speculation of what might come next, the boxing ring or a continued run in MMA? Abstractions. Those thoughts belonged to another world. The comparisons to Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall, and talks of standing as the best heavyweight in the world?