WBC heavyweight boxing world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury is set to face MMA star Francis Ngannou on October 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The fight kicks off Riyadh Season, one of the world’s leading entertainment festivals, which runs throughout the winter months in the Kingdom’s largest city.
Promoted by Queensberry, Top Rank and GIMIK Fight Promotions, the all-heavyweight Fury-Ngannou card will stream live on ESPN+ PPV in the United States beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Priced at $79.99 across all distributors, it also will be available via cable and satellite pay-per-view providers.
Many will complain about this fight but we’re all intrigued. I expect Fury to toy with Francis and win without issue. I don’t think Francis’ power translates into boxing. Francis is already a winner in leaving UFC at the top of his game in pursuit of a bigger prize. I’m sure when this is over he can go back to UFC to challenge Jon Jones and make another fortune. Fury will also fight Usyk. These guys are just looking for a payday and why not? This is prize fighting.
Fury needs to rematch him in an MMA match to even up the odds… Bet that wont happen…
The reason most boxers in their prime don’t fight MMA (excluding Clarissa Shield) is because they pay a fraction of what boxing pays for more risks. In general MMA promotions can’t afford boxers or they simply won’t pay them nor their fighters what they should be earning ala. UFC. That is why Francis in his prime and undisputed HW champ left UFC to fight Fury. Its all about the money. Francis new promotion probably couldn’t match UFC’s pay scale but they allowed Francis to boxing which is why he left. If I were Fury I wouldn’t fight MMA either unless the promoter made it worth my while.
Great post!
“Many will complain about this fight but we’re all intrigued….”
– No.
– We’re not……….
You proved my point. You’re complaining but you couldn’t help but click for an update. I stand by what I said. Thanks for proving my point. If you were not intrigued/interested you would have skipped.
– Incorrect.
– We are all not intrigued…….
There was a mug born every second and lots of them will part with $79.99 for this farce of a fight. I don’t blame the fighters or the promoters- if there is a lot of east mug money to have, then let’s take it. But anyone paying for this is a total mug!
hi!! jc FIRST) 80.00$$ to see this, you’re right :
the more half-fan who will pay to see this, pretty soon the real boxing fan gonna have trouble to have good free boxing fights like before. Have a good evening…..
Top of the day to you Sir Mighty JC
Anyone who pays for this should be ashamed to call themselves a boxing fan. The only way to get rid of these circus shows is to simply refuse to buy them. Period. I don’t care how many “thumbs down” my comment gets!
Salut/’evening…….Wildman…I’m not sure about the thumbs down but, about the thumbs up, you’re doing pretty good!!!! and about you’re comment, that’s the thruth!! have a good evening! from Montréal
Americans who are thinking about buying this fight, put your 79.99 to good use and donate it to causes that help out our Vets. You’ll all be disappointed by the outcome of this WWE type nonsense.
Let’s say this PPV had on the undercard: Benavidez vs. Andrade, Beterbiev vs. Bivol, and some obscure fight like Inoue’s little brother vs. Jerwin Ancajas; would you pay for it? I also have an idea: let the MMA fighters be able to wrestle (no punches) the last 30 seconds of each round, and award a point if they are able to secure a takedown. Stay with me. So, if Fury is up 10-9 for the round and Nganno scores a takedown in that 30 second wrestling segment, then the round get’s scored 10-10.
Fkin, stupid. You are probably the only dumass that will order this fight.
This would never happen because Benavidez vs Andrade and Beterbiev vs Bivol are main event fights onto themselves. Francis is not scoring a “takedown” because Fury would never agree to an MMA match because it doesn’t pay as well as boxing. All roads lead to Tyson Fury winning.
$79.99 – hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Exactly!
Why would anyone pay for an exhibition? The matchups worth paying for are Canelo vs. Benavidez and Benavidez vs. Beterbiev!
Who is going to order this garbage? The same idiots that ordered the mayweather exhibition fights
80 Bones for this? At 11:00am on a Saturday? No thanks
$80.00 OMG I spend $ 80.00 at Aldi to buy food for myself and my wife Weekly These circus shows will go on as long as there are enough suckers
There ain’t a fight out there where a boxer and mma guy would be worth 80 dollars. There is not a decent boxing match involving a boxer and MMA. At all.
It depends on the rules and the fighters. All is negotiable. This fight however isn’t worth $80. If folks are willing to pay for it why not charge them $80. I’d charge $100. There is always a sucker willing to pay.
In Saudi Arabia this will do great. However, in the states these numbers will be way down. $80 for this after paying $85 for Canelo-Charlo and Crawford-Spence… No Thank you! PPV is getting out of hand IMO
This fight has the same feeling that Rousey and Holms had. I watch both sports and all the MMA forums said Rousey was going to destroy Holly, and I got ripped to pieces when I said anything else.
For this fight its easy to see Fury as a favorite, but Ngannou wont be easy. fury would be stupid to exchange with him. If Ngannour pressures Fury and unloads it could be over fast. If not Fury will have to stay away and jab him to death.
The stupid thing is just an exhibition. It’s not even listed on Boxrec. They probably made a rule “no punching at head”. They should pay me to watch it!
not very interested, not watching
will pas on this one
Someone needs to buy it so that the rest of the world can stream it illegally via whatever website or IPTV service.
Can you guess why Frances didn’t have a tune up fight? Exactly, he can’t beat any top 50 light heavyweight or above. He did some sparring w a fringe contender LHW and they had to stop it after 1 round. This is a disgrace. Frances is a nice guy, true gentleman, and I’m glad he’s getting a payday, but it shouldn’t be at the consumer’s expense. If you want a clown show go to Ringling Bros. Fury should be ashamed of himself.
I wouldn’t pay one dollar for this rubbish
It’s a rigged fight to take our money
I don’t care if they do exhibitions to make a side hustle. But if they should do them after they retire professionally so as to not hold up any potential great matchups and belts!
And boxers should never rematch in mma!! They are two different sports, no need to crossover at all, and definitely no need for a boxer to start rolling around the floor with another man.
The bulk of these are usually the mma guy calling out boxers anyhow because they don’t make enough money.
If they must rematch in a different discipline then do it in kick boxing.
No ground work, stand up only, but Striking with boxing gloves and feet!
This alone would level the playing field.
Honestly this is the only way these stupid crossover matches should take place at all.
Of course I will not pay