“Everything didn’t go as planned.
» And that's the least Francis Ngannou can say.
Expected at the turning point for his second boxing fight of his career against Anthony Joshua, the Cameroonian was knocked out in the second round last Friday in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
This Thursday, in a live Instagram, he returned to this bitter defeat, explaining that he had not felt well all day before the fight: “At no time was I myself.
I was warming up, I was sweating but I was sleepy.
Which was a little weird.
They blamed the fact that it was late even though I was training at fight time.
Afterwards, you shouldn't look for excuses.
As a fighter, there are only two outcomes.
We win or we lose!
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“I felt sleepy”
Asked by Internet users about these sensations, “The Destroyer” confided that he had never felt like that in the past.
" It's the first time.
But I tell myself that this has happened to some people that I have fought or beaten in the past.
At no point during the day did I say to myself, “
Okay, we’re ready to go
. ”
I remember, even in the locker room warming up, it wasn't going well.
I felt sleepy,” he lamented.
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Anthony Joshua sends Francis Ngannou to the mat in the second round!
🥶🥊 #KnockoutChaos
Did you expect such a scenario?😳 pic.twitter.com/n4gGGLrQLo
— DAZN France (@DAZN_FR) March 9, 2024
After two defeats (against Fury and Joshua) in as many fights, Francis Ngannou has not put an end to his career in the ring, nor on the octagon: “I am not done with boxing .
I'm not done with MMA.
(…) To put it simply, I will have a lot of fights in the future so I can always combine the two.
It's not because I'm more comfortable in MMA that I'm going to give up boxing.
I'm going to continue to do both, I'm going to continue to do it.
It's part of a career to take on challenges and sometimes it goes well, sometimes not.
But we're working on it.
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Also read “You also have to know how to dodge”: knocked out by Joshua, does Ngannou still have a future in boxing?
The name of his next fighter in the PFL is already known, it will be the Brazilian Renan Ferreira (19 fights, 13 victories including 11 by KO).