UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall scored around 50,000 points on the punch-power machine; Francis Ngannou registered 129,000 back in 2018.
Previewing the enormous boxing fight between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou on his YouTube channel, Aspinall attempted to match ‘The Predators’ famous record for the hardest punch in history; 129,000 points on the PowerKube.
Unfortunately, the interim UFC heavyweight champion could barely reach half of Ngannou’s total, joking that there must be an issue with the machine and that he might consider ‘quitting’ if the points are to be believed.
Tom Aspinall attempts to break Ngannou’s power punch record
Francis Ngannou is widely known to have the hardest punch in the world, blowing the former record out of the water with his registering of 129,000 points on the PowerKube machine back in 2018.
Countless UFC fighters have attempted to match Ngannou’s score, almost all without even a hint of success, including interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall – who certainly wasn’t happy about his most recent effort on the machine.
After breaking down Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou on his YouTube channel, the British star threw everything he had at the PowerKube and lamented his score being so far off ‘The Predator.’
“He can’t have done 129,000! If he did 129,000 and I did 40,000, that is ridiculous stuff. I think there’s something going on there, I’m thinking about quitting.”
The 30-year-old joked that their two machines “must be different”, laughing as he noted that there should be a disparity between the two scores but not by such a margin.
“I mean I’m not saying, I don’t punch as hard as Ngannou, I’m aware of that. But I’m not a hundred thousand behind, do you know what I mean? Definitely not…He doesn’t punch three times harder than me; [he] definitely punches harder than me but three times harder? I’m blaming the machine…”
“To get 130,000, that’s ridiculous…That is unreal cause I’m hitting that pretty hard,” he shared after scoring around 50,000 points in a later attempt.
Indeed, the power of Ngannou is ridiculous, but his record is certainly not without competition with Joe Pyfer claiming to have beaten the 129,000 tally before his clash with Jack Hermansson, although the score was not officially accepted by the PowerKube operator at the time.
Back to Aspinall, who claimed interim glory last year when he starched Sergei Pavlovich in the very first round but expressed frustration in the months since as an undisputed shot at Jon Jones appears to have stagnated.
The fan-favorite British juggernaut was recently called out by Jailton Almeida, who claimed that the two could headline UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro in May, should he defeat Curtis Blaydes and come out of UFC 299 uninjured.
UFC 299 takes place this weekend in Miami, with Almeida vs Blaydes set for the featured bout of the preliminary card.