Francis Ngannou doesn’t bear in mind getting up from the stool to begin 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 Enviornment 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 an alternative confronted an virtually fast 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 by the rest of the spherical, however in keeping with the previous UFC heavyweight champion, every part after that knockdown was a blur.
“My reminiscence and my imaginative and prescient saved going,” Ngannou mentioned whereas chatting with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. “I don’t bear in mind once 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 may’t clarify what occurred. It was fairly bizarre.”
Francis Ngannou Says third boxing combat may 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 accomplished within the candy science. Lately, he prompt that boxing now “owes him one thing” and {that a} third combat contained in the ring might take priority over his long-awaited debut contained in the PFL Good Cage.
“What’s subsequent for me? Perhaps a 3rd boxing match,” Ngannou mentioned 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 is not going to let me step again and let this go like this with out doing every part 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.”
