{"id":542737,"date":"2026-04-21T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:42:07","slug":"francis-ngannou-has-his-say-on-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-after-losing-to-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542737\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou has his say on Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua after losing to both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> in 2023 and 2024, respectively, but believes their potential showdown would make for a \u201cgreat fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC champion made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/67252426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his professional boxing debut against Fury, losing a highly-contentious split decision after flooring his man in the third round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Ngannou exceeded the majority of expectations while Fury, in equal measure, did not perform to his usual standard over 10 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, manage to produce a far more impressive display in his following outing, only to suffer another 10-8 round and, this time, lose a split decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After losing their immediate rematch, too, Fury then decided to spend 16 months out of the ring before <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/robert-garcia-on-inoue-vs-nakatani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unanimously outpointing Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, meanwhile, had defeated Ngannou far more emphatically \u2013 orchestrating a thunderous second-round finish \u2013 before suffering a fifth-round stoppage defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/daniel-dubois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Dubois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since losing to Dubois in September 2024, \u2018AJ\u2019 has completed just one assignment, a sixth-round finish over Jake Paul last December, as he now looks to enter another fight before finally facing Fury.<\/p>\n<p>With their all-British heavyweight clash slated for November, Ngannou has told several media outlets, including <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ihm0Atp3kew?si=1Mx_LJ6g0s1IukWa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FightHype<\/a>, that he believes both competitors are still of an \u201celite\u201d standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a great fight. How it\u2019s going to go? It\u2019s the fight game \u2013 nobody knows what will happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are both elite fighters, but we all know how tricky Fury can be. He\u2019s managed to be very hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not giving a clear prediction, Ngannou\u2019s effort to highlight Fury\u2019s \u201ctricky\u201d style suggests that he could be leaning towards a \u2018Gypsy King\u2019 victory.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Joshua must now finalise a two-fight deal with Turki Alalshikh in order to collide with his long-time rival later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou lost to Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua in 2023 and 2024, respectively, but believes their potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}