#3 Francis Ngannou
There’s a lot of fanfare around French-Cameroonian fighter Francis Ngannou right now. Many people, myself included, consider him the very best Heavyweight prospect in the UFC if not all of MMA.
He’s currently 5-0 in the UFC and is closing in quickly on the upper echelon of the division. He may well find himself holding the UFC Heavyweight title at some point in the future.
To look at the guy, he’s also got everything that Vince McMahon craves.
Ngannou is 6’4”, 256lbs of pure muscle. He looks like he’s been sculpted from granite, a real life superhuman, and when he had his longer braided hairstyle, he was somehow even more intimidating. Like a real-life Predator, almost, living up to his nickname.
What would serve Ngannou well in WWE – and make him more attractive to Vince – is his freakish strength and athleticism. In December, Ngannou fought another huge man in Anthony Hamilton and practically threw him into a kimura like he was a child.
A standing kimura that throws someone to the ground at Heavyweight isn’t just rare – to my knowledge it’d never happened before that fight.
Can you imagine Ngannou throwing some of the smaller wrestlers in WWE around like that? It could look something like Brock Lesnar’s early days when he tossed the likes of Spike Dudley and the Hardy Boyz around with ease.
Judging by his recent interviews, Ngannou is a soft-spoken killer and that could hold him back in the WWE. But give him a gimmick of a silent savage complete with a mouthpiece, and you can bet your life he’d get over as a big deal.
Vinny Mac would love it.
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