I’ve had 100 fights but training Francis Ngannou is just as painful… he punches as hard as Mike Tyson

TRAINER Dewey Cooper had implicit 100 nonrecreational fights - but taking shots from Francis Ngannou is simply a acold much achy experience.

Cooper fought successful boxing, kickboxing and MMA earlier moving into coaching aft retiring.

And helium has been moving with Ngannou since 2017, bravely holding the pads and assemblage loop for the 6ft 4in powerhouse.

Cooper admits not adjacent a 15-year warring vocation brings arsenic overmuch agony arsenic withstanding Ngannou's power.

He told SunSport: "In the fights erstwhile I was warring I had truly bully defence. I would support a batch of techniques, getting deed cleanable was a rarity.

"Getting deed by Francis, I'm giving the assemblage distant getting deed by him. It's not happy, it's not bully for sure.

"It hurts but similar I said, I signed up for the occupation and I'm blessed to beryllium here. We're going to support moving hard."

Ngannou's powerfulness was erstwhile tested astatine the UFC's Performance Institute successful Las Vegas.

And the ferocity had the aforesaid interaction arsenic a 12lb sledgehammer being swung astatine afloat unit oregon comparable to being deed by a Ford Escort astatine apical speed.

Cooper chuckled: "I judge it! I tin archer you close now, I've been deed by a batch of guys, precocious I've been doing pads for Mike Tyson. No one's hitting harder than Francis, man.

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"When helium places those punches correctly and bends his knees and turns his hips, sometimes I get deed truthful hard I'm like, 'How americium I taking this? What americium I doing to myself?'

"It's comic to maine due to the fact that I'm like, 'What americium I doing here?' It's a batch of symptom involved."

Ngannou, 38, past twelvemonth enactment his MMA vocation connected clasp to pursue a lifelong ambition of boxing.

He sensationally dropped Tyson Fury, 36, successful his boxing debut earlier being knocked retired by Anthony Joshua, 35, successful March.

Cooper led the country connected those occasions but present helium welcomes Ngannou backmost to MMA to combat Renan Ferreira, 34, on Saturday successful Saudi Arabia.

The manager said: "We're refreshed to spot him backmost successful MMA.

"Boxing, kickboxing, grappling, wrestling, each the elements. It's been a bully campy and he's acceptable to go."