Francis Ngannou KOs Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 20 seconds at UFC 249, and Twitter is floored

Tom Gatto

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Francis Ngannou KOs Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 20 seconds at UFC 249, and Twitter is floored image

Francis Ngannou returned to the Octagon on Saturday night for UFC 249, but he didn't stay there very long. Before he left, though, he did what he normally does: knock opponents into next week.

Ngannou finished Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 20 seconds of their heavyweight fight in Jacksonville, Fla. The TKO was brutally efficient, with strikes to send Rozenstruik to the mat and then more blows to render him unresponsive.

Let's just say, Daniel Cormier was highly impressed (and maybe concerned?):

Naturally, fight fans who have been waiting months to see such action were ready to respond:

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.