Francis leaves the arena rather than enter the cage with PFL HW champ

[markg171]

Lol at people still pretending he's ever fighting in PFL

 

[Pechan]

Dude is not even bothering to pretend anymore.

 

[Siver!]

Lol at people still pretending he's ever fighting in PFL

The equivalent of ripping up his contract imo

 

[markg171]

The equivalent of ripping up his contract imo

Taking the Joshua fight despite being contractually obligated to fight for them in early 2024 should've clued everybody in.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Meh, Francis is bigger than PFL at this point. I doubt he fights any time before near end of 2025 but he will eventually

 

[podsox]

Taking the Joshua fight despite being contractually obligated to fight for them in early 2024 should've clued everybody in.

The only thing the pfl is good at is publicity stunts. The 2 biggest things they’ve done is sign two guys(Jake Paul and Francis) that will never fight for them

 

[Liverkick-king56]

PFL should've realized compared to boxing names like Fury and Joshua they have absolutely no names of hype at HW right now.

Even Aspinall is being subbed for Miocic so seeing Ferreira snubbed for Joshua and boxing just makes sense considering these guys want massive names to fight.

 

[gosuasus]

There is no fight Saudi money can't make.

 

[CatchtheseHands]

How he does in his fight with Joshua will probably be the factor in how soon he fights for PFL. Even if/when he does fight he's probably gonna just win the title and never fight for them again.

 

[Tohm]

Renan was like: "yeah, man, can't wait to fight Francis, by the way I'm already one of the greatest HW fighters of all time", meanwhile Francis going home thinking about his ice cream.

 

[Tweak896]

Ngannou puts up a front like he's trying to help everyone in MMA, but he'll chase the money just like everyone else. He's not going to do charity fights for PFL if boxing keeps the pay days coming.

 

[GrantB13]

I like how the main event was being presented as an eliminator to face a guy who's never fought in the promotion before. I don't watch other MMA aside from the UFC really so it's always strange hearing other organizations holding UFC fighters in higher regard. The UFC would almost never mention outside fighters but Bellator and PFL will name drop Jones, Ngannou, and whoever else at any chance.

 

[JKS]

Depends on how he does vs Joshua. If he wins, then you can bet he may do another boxing fight and it might be a world title. If he loses then he's 0-2 and likely does the mma fight.

 

[Hank Grill]

Francis knows Bader is still the baddest man on the planet and will face him instead of this pretender

 

[MRT]

Much depends on his next performance.

Win or lose against Joshua, Francis has better opportunities in boxing (unless Joshua utterly humiliates him, in which case perhaps PFL becomes more realistic).

 

[StoneWT]

The head trauma from the Joshua fight will leave him Ferguson'ed (retarded). Frank Ng loses his next MMA fight as long as they put a live dog against him. Bad knees, concussed, even older, etc.. Bet the house on Frank's MMA opponent as long as it's not a gimme fight.

 

[Neck&Neck]

Smart move
he don’t want that 6’8” SuperLanklet Smoke

 

[bubbleboyjones]

How he does in his fight with Joshua will probably be the factor in how soon he fights for PFL.

Thats literally what Francis said but PFL instead marketed this as Ngannou has some guarantee to fight the winner of the fight tonight.




"It is my intention to return to the sport. When exactly, I think depends on March 8."

Francis Ngannou's MMA comeback fight narrowed down to two opponents​

Francis Ngannou will discover his opponent on his MMA comeback fight on Saturday night. The former UFC heavyweight world champion is taking on Anthony Joshua in an exhibition boxing bout on March 8…

talksport.com

 

[El Fernas]

PFL will be the next fight when there are no boxing fights for him, neither are in a hurry for that, neither was a name to build a card against Ngannou.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

RIP PFL it was over before it even began getting swept 5-1 by Bellator was always going to make you a threat to UFC