The invitation is sent.
The WBC heavyweight boxing champion and the MMA heavyweight belt holder could go head-to-head.
Francis Ngannou left the UFC, the number 1 championship in MMA, and proclaimed his desire to box.
Tyson Fury, the current best boxer, understood the message well and passed it on to the Cameroonian fighter at the microphone of SecondsOut.
“Francis Ngannou, I know you no longer have a contract with the UFC, attacked the Briton.
Want to make a lot of money?
Come see the Gipsy King and let's have a big big fight for the title of baddest MF on the planet.
Let's spice up the show: in a cage, with MMA gloves, under Queensberry (the rules of English boxing) and a fucking referee like Mike Tyson!
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Tyson Fury asks for a boxing fight with MMA gloves against Francis Ngannou and that with Mike Tyson as referee!
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— La Sueur (@LaSueur_off) January 21, 2023
The UFC heavyweight belt holder had already opened the door to a fight against Fury.
“My instinct tells me to box, in a professional fight.
I don't know where yet, I'll find it, I'm working on it,” Ngannou said in a Canadian podcast.
He says he is ready to fight twice in 2023 and why not this summer.
“It will be against anyone, if it's Tyson Fury, I take it.
I have no problem boxing, even with four ounce gloves (smaller than English boxing gloves and especially used in MMA), so yes.
Maybe with four-ounce gloves, maybe in an (MMA) cage, we'll see."
The 36-year-old Cameroonian also mentioned the name of Anthony Joshua.
For the moment, it is especially Fury, 34 years old, 34 fights, 33 wins, 0 losses, who has taken the bait.
