2023-10-31 13:46:13
Questioned by journalist Ariel Helwani this Monday evening, Cameroonian Francis Ngannou assured that he had “very serious discussions” with boxer Deontay Wilder for an MMA fight. Information confirmed by the boss of the PFL who for his part is proposing a fight with “mixed rules”.
While rumors and scenarios of all kinds surrounding the future of Francis Ngannou continue to panic social networks, following an unexpected performance once morest the WBC champion, Tyson Fury, the Cameroonian declared, Monday evening, that he would finally take his decision in the coming days. The MMA fighter even mentioned the “serious” idea of bringing, this time, an English boxing champion into his sport.
At the microphone of Ariel Helwani, in the show The MMA Hour, a traditional Monday evening meeting for MMA fans, the former UFC heavyweight champion shed light on the speculation around a potential fight once morest Deontay Wilder (43-2-1), former world heavyweight champion in English boxing. The “Predator” even assured the advanced state of “very serious” discussions with the American.
An MMA fight with “mixed rules”?
A rematch once morest Fury? a superfight once morest Anthony Joshua? An MMA fight for the undisputed heavyweight title of any organization once morest Jones? Potential future credible opponents announced, the Cameroonian seems to have set his target more on Deontay Wilder. While the American, stripped of his WBC title by Tyson Fury in 2020, was seen in training, mitts in hand earlier this year, Ngannou confirmed this Monday that the boxer was training well in MMA, and this “for several months already”.
So, questioned by Ariel Helwani regarding a potential fight in a cage with “the Bronze Bomber”, the Cameroonian revealed that “discussions have been initiated. It’s something that might potentially take place. Nothing is still official but it’s an idea that interests me and makes sense since he (Wilder) seems really serious regarding MMA.”
Last February the two men were already looking for each other, through the media. Deontay Wilder himself responded to the provocation of Ngannou in a post “When I met Francis in Las Vegas, we had already talked regarding all this. And I would really like us to do the fight in Africa,” Wilder confessed in an interview with The MMA Hour, at the start of the fight. ‘year.
Faced with the idea of a fight in a cage, Donn Davis, the founder and co-owner of the PFL (organization with which Ngannou is under contract) even made his comment, this Monday evening, still on the microphone of Ariel Helwani confirming the relatively advanced state of discussions.
“I heard him on your show saying he was going to make a decision in the next couple of weeks and we already know what he’s working on…I think there are two options open to him: one fight in English and an MMA fight but slightly different which might be done with mixed rules”, says the boss of the PFL
While the Cameroonian emerges stronger from his English boxing fight (his first among the pros) once morest Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder, for his part, has not fought for 1 year and his victory by KO once morest Robert Helenius in October 2022. And if the aura of the 38-year-old American suffered from two consecutive defeats once morest Fury in February 2020 then October 2021, the hope of a victory once morest Ngannou, on his own turf, might allow him to regain all his splendor .
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