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  •   Home > News > Sports > Boxing

    Francis Ngannou will continue in the sport of boxing despite sustaining the heaviest blow of his fighting career

    Francis Ngannou will continue in the sport of boxing despite sustaining the heaviest blow of his fighting career


    The MMA champion was put on oxygen after being knocked out by Anthony Joshua in the second round of their heavyweight bout in Saudi Arabia.

    Ngannou - who went the distance with Tyson Fury in his first boxing fight - says he'll be back.

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