MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is scheduled to collide with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nevertheless, Ngannou has not forgotten a few potential rematch with WBC world champion Tyson Fury.
Final October, Ngannou made his skilled boxing debut in opposition to Fury.
Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, dropped Fury within the third spherical and made it a really aggressive struggle for the whole ten rounds.
After the smoke had cleared, Fury got here away with a razor-close cut up choice victory.
Ngannou believes he did sufficient to win the struggle and known as out for a right away rematch.
However, Fury is about to collide with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk in a high-stakes undisputed struggle on February 17 in Riyadh.
No matter who wins, there’s a rematch clause the place a second struggle is prone to occur close to the tip of the 12 months.
Ngannou desires a second struggle with Fury whatever the consequence of the upcoming struggle with Usyk.
“It’s going to occur,” Ngannou stated on The MMA Hour. “I imply there’s Fury and [Oleksandr] Usyk, even then we spoke about it. There’s Fury and Usyk happening, so [the Joshua fight] was like a chance. I used to be ready for Fury, however this was the chance that I used to be blissful to take, I [asked] for. And on the finish of the day, this gained’t take something away from the Fury rematch.
“[The rematch has] by no means been instantly. I feel there’s even a slight probability that the ‘instantly’ is the Usyk rematch. As a result of I feel their time period is even nearer, our rematch time period was in a single 12 months. Inside one 12 months. Which remains to be gonna be in October this 12 months.”
