If a mooted showdown between the heaviest punchers in boxing and combined martial arts turns into a actuality, Roy Jones Jr. is backing the boxer to get the job completed.
Following his return to the cage in October the place he scored a first-round TKO win over Renan Ferreira in his PFL debut in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Francis Ngannou has expressed a need to return to the skilled boxing area after testing himself in defeats to each Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua over the course of the previous 14 months or so.
The potential crossover bout between Ngannou and former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has lengthy been speculated, notably after Wilder mentioned he was open to competing in opposition to Ngannou in each fight codes and after Saudi Arabia’s boxing moneyman Turki Alalshikh outlined that he was contemplating pursuing mentioned battle in 2025.
But when it turns into a actuality, four-weight world champion Jones Jr. is of the opinion that Wilder, 39, could be an excessive amount of for the combined martial arts star.
“Wilder will beat Ngannou as a result of he is aware of find out how to field, he is aware of what boxing is about,” Jones Jr. advised Covers, as famous by Bloody Elbow.
“You noticed what Anthony Joshua did to Ngannou, properly Wilder is understood for having a way more devastating punch than Anthony Joshua,” he added. “If Anthony Joshua hit him like that and did that to him what’s going to occur when Deontay Wilder lands?
“I wouldn’t say it’s a mismatch as a result of if Ngannou can maintain the appropriate hand off of him he’ll give Deontay Wilder hell, you perceive me, so I’m not going to name it a mismatch.
“[But] we’ve seen what occurs to him when he will get clear with a boxing glove and Wilder, in my humble opinion, is an even bigger puncher than Joshua.” Nevertheless, Jones Jr. additionally had a warning for Wilder: Avoid the cage.
“I don’t assume they need to do one within the boxing ring, one within the cage,” Jones Jr. ex
