{"id":344005,"date":"2025-12-12T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344005\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:49:07","slug":"pfl-promises-something-special-for-francis-ngannous-final-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344005\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL promises \u2018something special\u2019 for Francis Ngannou\u2019s \u2018final fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to Francis a number of times,\u201d Martin told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/pfl\/461171\/pfl-ceo-confident-francis-ngannou-returns-in-2026-were-working-on-something-very-special-for-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cHe knows we\u2019re working on something very special for him. I\u2019d like to see what happens in the fight this week and see if [Vadim] Nemkov wins, if that makes sense. But Francis knows that we\u2019re looking forward to him fighting in 2026, relatively soon hopefully, and we\u2019re trying to put something together that\u2019s very special for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s got one more fight under his [current PFL] contract and we\u2019ll see what happens after that,\u201d Martin added. \u201cIn the meantime, he\u2019s been a great ambassador for us and PFL Africa. I know he\u2019s explored some [options] on the boxing front, too. We\u2019ve been in reasonably frequent communication with him and his manager and his lawyer. I look forward to seeing Francis in the cage again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Safe to say none of that matters until PFL gets Ngannou back inside the \u201cSmartCage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to Francis a number of times,\u201d Martin told MMA Fighting. \u201cHe knows we\u2019re working on something&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,8081,85,1396],"class_list":["post-344005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344005","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=344005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}