Francis Ngannou Willing To Wait Until After Usyk Fight For Tyson Fury Rematch

Francis Ngannou is not sending combined alerts … he desires a rematch with Tyson Fury subsequent, and if which means ready a couple of months till The Gypsy King fights Oleksandr Usyk, he tells TMZ Sports activities that is precisely what he’ll do!

The 37-year-old fight sports activities famous person joined Michael Babcock on the “TMZ Sports” present (airs weeknights on FS1) … the place the blokes talked about Francis’ future within the ring now that he is the most popular commodity within the sport.

“I would be willing to wait [for Fury to fight Usyk]. I know that they are going to fight, they had a contract already, so they are going to fight sometime in February instead of December 23, which is my fault,” Ngannou mentioned smiling … “I shouldn’t have cut him. He would’ve fought December 23, and maybe we would’ve run it back early next year.”

In fact, Francis is referring to the lower he opened up on Tyson’s head … an enormous purpose he will not be capable of flip round and combat in lower than 2 months. The lower has to heal.

So, a combat with Fury, barring the Usyk bout fully falling aside, is not going to occur till, at earliest, mid-2024.

Within the meantime, Anthony Joshua, by means of his promoter Eddie Hearn, has mentioned he is right down to combat The Predator in Saudi Arabia on December 28. We requested Ngannou if he was .

“First of all, it’s too soon. Secondly, my focus, as boxing is concerned, is a rematch with Tyson. That’s the most important thing for me right now, everything else for boxing comes after.”

Along with AJ, Deontay Wilder and Joseph Parker are names which were thrown out as doable future opponents for Ngannou.

All this does not essentially imply Francis will not combat earlier than Fury … he simply will not field. Keep in mind, Ngannou is signed to PFL (as a fighter and Chairman of PFL Africa).

Final week we spoke to PFL CEO Peter Murray … who previewed a few of the promotion’s plans for his or her famous person fighter.

There’s additionally far more with Francis … from whether or not he believes Fury skilled for him to how his life has modified for the reason that epic efficiency.