Francis Ngannou doesn’t keep in mind getting up from the stool to start out the second spherical of his boxing match with Anthony Joshua.
After delivering a show-stealing efficiency towards Tyson Fury in October, Ngannou returned to Kingdom Area in Riyadh for a conflict with the WBC’s top-ranked contender. Intent on incomes his approach right into a rematch with ‘The Gypsy King’ Ngannou as a substitute confronted an nearly speedy catastrophe when he was sat down within the opening spherical with a straight proper hand from his opponent.
Ngannou answered the referee’s depend and made it via the rest of the spherical, however in line with the previous UFC heavyweight champion, all the things after that knockdown was a blur.
“My reminiscence and my imaginative and prescient stored going,” Ngannou stated whereas talking to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. “I don’t keep in mind after I got here again from the stool to go to the second spherical. From the stool, in between rounds, I wasn’t there anymore. Some days are simply not your day and you’ll’t clarify what occurred. It was fairly bizarre.”
Francis Ngannou Says third boxing battle would possibly come earlier than PFL debut
Ngannou suffered a second knockdown within the second spherical earlier than being completed off with an enormous proper hand that rendered the Cameroonian unconscious.
Regardless of the setback, Ngannou seems to be removed from executed within the candy science. Lately, he recommended that boxing now “owes him one thing” and {that a} third battle contained in the ring might take priority over his long-awaited debut contained in the PFL Sensible Cage.
“What’s subsequent for me? Perhaps a 3rd boxing match,” Ngannou stated on his YouTube channel. “However I believe now boxing owes me one thing now. I’ve to regain what boxing took from me. I believe my ego won’t let me step again and let this go like this with out doing all the things to revive and show to the world that I’m the person for the job, I can do it. I slipped, however I didn’t fall. I stumbled, I didn’t fall.”
