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Anthony Joshua Uses Fury’s Ordeal To Play Down On Ngannou’s Punch
<p><img width="1000" height="600" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Anthony-Joshua-Francis-Ngannou-1000x600.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Boxing: Anthony Joshua To Face Francis Ngannou In Saudi Arabia As Fight Confirmed" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Anthony-Joshua-Francis-Ngannou-1000x600.jpg 1000w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Anthony-Joshua-Francis-Ngannou-590x354.jpg 590w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Anthony-Joshua-Francis-Ngannou-400x240.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></p> <h2><a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/02/10/tyson-fury-insists-he-is-not-retiring-until-he-fights-anthony-joshua/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nigerian-born British heavyweight boxer, Anthony Joshua</a> has downplayed the power of Francis Ngannou's punch ahead of their bout on March 8.</h2> <p>Before his proposed bout with Anthony Joshua, Ngannou, who gained international recognition as a UFC fighter, made his heavyweight boxing debut against British fighter, Tyson Fury last year.</p> <p>To the dismay of many boxing enthusiasts, <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2023/10/29/tyson-fury-admits-fight-with-francis-ngannou-was-one-of-his-toughest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ngannou punched Fury down</a> in the 5th round but the British boxer was able to bounce back to win the bout via a split decision.</p> <p>After the bout, Ngannou gained extraordinary attention in the world of boxing, which landed him a bout with a two-time heavyweight world champion, Anthony Joshua.</p> <p>Ahead of the bout, which is two weeks away, Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou attended the DAZN face-off in which the Cameroonian boxer made it clear that AJ wouldn't be able to recover from the punch that landed Fury to the ground.</p> <p>Though that was the seventh time in 16 years that Fury was dropped by an opponent - once by Neven Paikich, Steve Cunningham, and four times by Deontay Wilder - Ngannou downplayed Joshua's ability to bounce back from the kind of knockdown Fury suffered in his hands.</p> <p>He said, <em>"Yeah, I doubt that [whether Joshua would get up from the same punch Tyson got]. Tyson showed that he is very resilient, I saw him come back from a knockdown that you wouldn’t believe [against Deontay Wilder].</em></p> <p><em>“He is probably one of the most resilient people out there and this is not a disrespect to AJ, but I don’t believe that AJ would have taken what Tyson took.”</em></p> <p>In his quick response, Joshua used the opportunity to mock Fury's high tendency to be knocked down during a boxing bout.</p> <p><em>“Who hasn’t knocked Tyson down? So many people have knocked Tyson down",</em> Joshua said.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/02/20/anthony-joshua-uses-furys-ordeal-to-play-down-on-ngannous-punch/">Anthony Joshua Uses Fury’s Ordeal To Play Down On Ngannou’s Punch</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>