Woodley on training session with Ngannou: He has freakish power

“I don’t know what I would do [against him] because I never felt nobody just put that much [pressure on] my face and make me feel like my nose is gonna break”.

Tyron Woodley knows Francis Ngannou is one of the strongest men in the UFC, but ‘T-Wood’ wasn’t prepared for how physically imposing ‘The Predator’ would be in person.

Woodley recently spent some time on the mats with Ngannou and said the Cameroonian knockout artist is one of the most freakishly strong athletes he’s ever trained with.

“I was just in a gym with Ngannou and he was working on some single leg [takedowns],” Woodley told Helen Yee of Ngannou (transcribed by Essentially Sports). “He like grabbed his leg and his strength and his power—he didn’t even really quite grasp it—and I noticed how f*cking strong he is.”

“I don’t know what I would do [against him] because I never felt nobody just put that much [pressure on] my face and make me feel like my nose is gonna break”.

Woodley, of course, is several weight classes lighter than Ngannou but ‘The Chosen One’ is no slouch in the strength department, widely recognized as one of the most explosive fighters in the welterweight division.

Ngannou is possibly the most devastating puncher in the UFC, however, having won nine of his twelve bouts via KO and holding the record for the hardest punch ever measured (129,161 units) at the UFC Performance Institute.

Ngannou will challenge Stipe Miocic for the heavyweight title at UFC 260 on March 27 at the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas.