Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou •

Not convoluted at all.

If it was AJ who had the same trouble with Ngannou in the FIRST instance, Fury would be bagging the hell out of AJ for it but Fury wouldn’t be fighting Ngannou after he saw what Francis was capable of.

Usyk beat AJ twice but Fury still persisted in **** talking Usyk, saying he’s a “middleweight”, as if to indicate that Usyk wasn’t worthy of Fury’s consideration.

Fury fought Ngannou to put Usyk back even further - and it backfired on him.

Fury finally scheduled himself to fight Usyk in March24, but here we are, still waiting for that fight to happen. - hopefully in May.

As I’ve already said, many won’t believe it until they see it - and that’s a justified indictment on Fury.

At least AJ fought 3 times in 2023 and is kicking off his first fight for 2024 in March.

After his 3rd and unnecessary fight vs Chisora in 2022, Fury fought just ONCE in 2023 vs debutant Ngannou - and has since had his next scheduled fight in March 2023 postponed until 18 May.

AJ is on target to fulfil his commitment in March and no one is second guessing as to whether he’ll make it into the ring or not - and there was no guessing as to whether he’d front for either of his prior fights vs Usyk - and he at least has actually faced Usyk.

Fury’s been doing F-all besides talking for a long time.

There’s no excuses being prepped for AJ - and there’s been no indication of any attempt to fortunately any excuses - if he wins he wins, if he loses he loses, but at least he’s fighting.

The only excuses that have been proffered were those on behalf of Fury after the Ngannou fight - and they weren’t excuses that Fury himself offered or latched onto.

 

Ngannou BOMBAYE!!

 

According to Eddie Hearn on Friday 8th March 2024 the entire world will stop to watch an epic fight between Anthony ‘AJ’ Joshua and Francis ‘The Predator’ Ngannou, by whole world he surely means Matchroom fanboys as pretty much all boxing fans know how this fight will go. AJ will outbox Francis for the early rounds feeling him out and end matters with most likely a right hand by rounds 5-6.

Francis’s biggest attribute is his physical strength and ability in the clinch, AJ knows this and with Ben Davison in his corner they should have the perfect gameplan stick and move and avoid the clinch. So my prediction is an easy nights work for AJ to set up potentially a highly lucrative fight against Fury if he manages to overcome Usyk in May.

The fight on the undercard that I’m most interested in is Zhang vs Parker a really interesting contest. Joe Parker isn’t hard to hit so the question is will his normally stellar chin hold up to the force of Big Bang who as we all know can actually BANG. For this fight Parker would have to avoid any unnecessary exchanges for the first six rounds and use his superior speed and movement to tire out his larger opponent. Zhang will have one goal in mind walk Joe down and take him out early. A great 50:50 match up that could go either way, if I had to choose a winner I’d favour Zhilei but you can never rule out Parker who’s coming off a career best performance against Wilder.

My predictions

AJ KO’s Ngannou in 6

Zhang KO’s Parker in 6

If you guys make any money from the bookies from my prediction I’ll accept a commission.

How to watch

In the UK the card will be on Sky Sports PPV

In the U.S. DAZN PPV

Card start time 10:00 am ET Main event ring walks 6:00 pm (US & Canada)

Card start time start time 3:00 pm GMT Main event ring walks 11:00 pm (UK & Ireland)

Location – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Check out this link for the trailer and more posts https://undisputed-boxing.co.uk/2024/03/05/anthony-joshua-vs-francis-ngannou-prediction/

 

AJ hasn't been hit hard in the head since Wlads right hand

Francis will chin him

 

Not fussed who wins but I'm slightly biased as I've got 16 to 1 on ngannu.

 

Francis would have to land clean and I can't see that happening

Some good odd on AJ winning in the distance

 

AJ is no defensive wizard but it is down to Francis to find the opening.

 

Joshua UD. It won't be a repeat of Wallin as Joshua respects Ngannou's power too much to sit down on his punches. Expect Joshua to stay outside and clinch. Ngannou just isn't mobile enough to close the distance effectively but he will be dangerous in flashes.

 

Ngannou's gas tank is quite suspect as well, I'm betting an AJ win in the distance there's some good odds

 

Definite gas issues. You notice he didn't jump on Fury at all at the knockdown, was too concerned about blowing the tank. Still a 10 rounder also, surely should be 12 if a serious top end fight.

 

Aj stops him in 5 rounds, don’t think he drops him but the ref steps in

 

Don't think I've seen pork belly slice looking so thin.

Has he lost muscle mass, only His right arm looks like a twiglet from the camera angle. His left arm looks ok on full extension, but that's probs his tugging arm...

If he loses any more weight I'll have to stop calling him pork belly slice and re-name him streaky bacon rasher.

 

Or simply force it.

 

There is 2 options.
Joshua with Ben after Helenius fight look phenomenal on training and they belive in him 100% again.
Second option is that they just make good community interview and they knew smth about Ngannou that even Fury fight dont show.

Francis train boxing, with boxers for long time now. Lot of sparring and other. They probably knew all about him and maybe truth is that he is just good. Joshua is better than "just good".

I dont belive in third option that they are just stupid as... and they risk destroy all Anthony carrer making his fight with mega puncher if he is still menthal not sure...

 

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Ngannou to Fury: "I'm going to wipe the ring with your ass again. There was blood in the ring and it stick in your pants. Your only chance is in the boxing ring with the boxing rules. When you step out of that ring, you'd better stay five meters away before I stuff your ****. Because, if I lose it, you're going to have a really bad time. So, respect the fact that boxing is protecting you. Because, without that, you are nothing in front of me. I beat you every day and twice on Sunday."

Ngannou going in hard on Fury and Tyson getting jittery.

Joshua is playing second fiddle to these two.

Amazing.