Several top names have been proposed for Ngannou\u2019s boxing return, including a potential showdown with Deontay Wilder. Ngannou and Wilder have both entertained a potential figh<\/a>t booking for their next fights.<\/p>\n Wilder made a triumphant return to the ring by knocking out Tyrrell Anthony Herndon last month in Wichita. It was a strong bounceback performance for Wilder after losses in four of his previous five fights.<\/p>\n Ngannou, who is still looking for his first professional boxing win, could face another star knockout artist, according to one of his PFL colleagues.<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview with Bloody Elbow<\/a>, PFL heavyweight finalist Alexander Romanov<\/a> explained why he wants to see Ngannou fight former heavyweight titleholder Daniel Dubois<\/a> for his next boxing match.<\/p>\n \u201cNow in heavyweight boxing, Oleksandr Usyk is the biggest star. But I think a better matchup for Francis would be Daniel Dubois,\u201d Romanov opined.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would be better and a lighter matchup to face Dubois, because Francis has crazy power in his hands, lands super heavy bombs. And he could use that to knock him out\u2026his style matches up well with Dubois, it\u2019s a good matchup because he looks for just one heavy shot, doesn\u2019t move well on his feet.\u201d<\/p>\n Dubois lost to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> in their heavyweight title rematch by fifth-round knockout earlier this month. Dubois was seen hosting a house party late into the night just before his fight with Usyk, drawing criticism from around boxing.<\/p>\n A matchup between Dubois and Ngannou might make sense for both sides. Ngannou hasn\u2019t fought in boxing since a loss to Anthony Joshua last year by knockout.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Alexander Romanov fights for a PFL world championship on August 21<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Romanov is weeks away from the biggest fight of his MMA career at the 2025 PFL World Tournament finals. Romanov will face Oleg Popov for the 2025 PFL heavyweight world championship.<\/p>\n Since departing the UFC earlier this year<\/a>, Romanov has defeated Tim Johnson and fought to a no-contest against Valentin Moldavsky<\/a> in his PFL tenure. During his time in the UFC, Romanov defeated the likes of Rodrigo Nascimento and Blagoy Ivanov.<\/p>\n A former top heavyweight prospect, Romanov has the opportunity to not only win a $500k prize, but also add to his bounceback campaign with a world championship.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL heavyweight Alexander Romanov raised eyebrows with a unique idea for Francis Ngannou\u2019s next boxing fight. Former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[29824,64,63,802,29825,785,5963,29826,85,787],"class_list":["post-31809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-francis-ngannou","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-world-tournament","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Francis](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1762189693-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty ImagesAlexander Romanov wants Francis Ngannou to face Daniel Dubois in boxing return<\/p>\n