{"id":529348,"date":"2026-03-09T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:44:11","slug":"francis-ngannou-now-one-step-closer-to-knocking-out-jake-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529348\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou now \u2018one step closer to knocking out Jake Paul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHey guys, rumors are true,\u201d Ngannou said in a video posted to social media. \u201cI\u2019m joining the Rousey vs. Carano MMA fight [card] on Netflix. I\u2019ll be entering the cage against Philipe Lins from Brazil. MVP is the promoter. So, who knows? Maybe this means I\u2019m one step closer to knocking out Jake Paul, too. But first things first: catch me on Saturday, May 16, on Rousey vs. Carano. Live only on Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe two baddest MMA heavyweight champions in the world are Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones,\u201d Paul wrote on X. \u201cOne of them is now fighting on Saturday, May 16th, live on Netlfix. The lineal MMA heavyweight champion of the world Francis Ngannou vs Brazil\u2019s Philipe Lins plus Rousey vs Carano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ngannou (18-3) turns 40 in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHey guys, rumors are true,\u201d Ngannou said in a video posted to social media. \u201cI\u2019m joining the Rousey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,8081,250320,85,1396],"class_list":["post-529348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529348","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=529348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}