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The entire struggle main points as Cameroon’s Ngannou returns to MMA to tackle Brazil’s Ferreira for the PFL heavyweight name.
Cameroonian fighter Francis Ngannou is ready to create his long-awaited go back to the Combined Martial Arts (MMA) circuit to problem the Skilled Warring parties League’s (PFL) heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira of Brazil.
Right here’s the whole thing you want to understand concerning the struggle evening:
When is the Ngannou vs Ferreira struggle?
The struggle is scheduled for Saturday, October 19.
When is the Ngannou-Ferreira ring proceed?
Ngannou and Ferreira will start their ring walks for the primary struggle at 11pm (20:00 GMT).
The place is the Ngannou vs Ferreira struggle taking playground?
The struggle shall be held at Mayadeen, an occasions venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
What are Ngannou and Ferreira combating for?
The PFL Tremendous Fights heavyweight championship belt.
The place and the way can I observe the Ngannou vs Ferreira struggle reside?
Al Jazeera could have reside textual content and photograph protection of the struggle from 15:00 GMT.
The struggle shall be streamed and broadcast continue to exist a couple of regional platforms which might be charging pay-per-view charges.
What is going to be the period of the MMA struggle?
MMA fights range of their collection of rounds and the period of each and every around, with name fights typically being the longest. On this case, the struggle shall be unfold over 5 rounds of 5 mins each and every. The whole period, if all 5 rounds are finished, shall be 25 mins.
What’s the MMA struggle ring known as for Ngannou vs Perreira?
The customized cage for this struggle shall be known as the PFL SmartCage.
Who’s Francis Ngannou?
The 38-year-old fighter started his occupation in 2013 in France sooner than switching to the Utmost Combating Championship (UFC) two years next and changed into the promotion’s heavyweight champion in March 2021. He saved the name till 2023, when he left the promotion.
Ngannou signed with the PFL in Would possibly 2023, and the promotion assuredly to let him observe his boxing aspirations, which noticed him tackle Tyson Anger in Riyadh on October 28, 2023, and Anthony Joshua, additionally in Riyadh, on March 8, 2024.
The Cameroonian’s exit started on the month of 12 when he labored in a sand quarry. In his mid-20s, he launched into an extended and life-threatening exit from Cameroon to France – a shuttle he as soon as described as “hell”.
Ngannou crossed the Sahara Wilderness and spent a yr in Morocco sooner than getting into Spain during the Mediterranean Sea. Upon achieving Spain, he was once detained for getting into irregularly and spent two months in custody sooner than regaining his independence and in the end making it to France.
In Paris, he was once homeless till he discovered a health centre the place he may just bliss and get started coaching as a fighter.
Who’s Renan Ferreira?
The Brazilian blended martial arts fighter started his occupation in the USA in 2013 and joined the PFL in 2023.
The 34-year-old gained the PFL heavyweight name in a struggle in opposition to Denis Goltsov, whom he beat in a second-round overall knockout.
Ferreira, nicknamed “Problemo” has additionally recorded a win over Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader in a three-round non-title crossover struggle on February 24.
What’s Ngannou’s MMA struggle document?
- Fights: 20
- Wins: 17
- Losses: 3
- Via knockout: 12 wins, 0 losses
- Via submission: 4 wins, 0 losses
- Via choice: 1 win, 3 losses
- Via disqualification: 0 wins, 1 loss
What’s Ferreira’s MMA struggle document?
- Fights: 19
- Wins: 13
- Losses: 3
- Via knockout: 11 wins, 1 loss
- Via submission: 1 win, 1 loss
- Via choice: 1 win, 0 losses
- Via disqualification: 0 wins, 1 loss
What has Ngannou mentioned concerning the struggle?
- On Ferreira: “Renan is at the top of the line [of MMA fighters] but my entire life, my biggest opponent has always been me. On Saturday night, I am going to get him, so he should be ready.”
- What to anticipate from the struggle: “This is an MMA fight, so everything will be on display. We’ve prepared everything, and everything will be on display. Ferreira is preparing some things because he is a jiu-jitsu black belt, and he is not undermining my punching power.”
- Plans for a knockout victory: “I am going to fight strategically and according to how the fight presents itself. In my career, I went for a knockout, but it didn’t work out for me. The times when I did score a knockout, it wasn’t something that I had planned. I know I have 25 minutes, so I am going to lay my game plan down in that 25 minutes and win the fight.”
What has Ferreira mentioned concerning the struggle?
- On Ngannou: “Both of us came from humble beginnings. We had an incredible career to reach where we are right now. It is a great honour to be fighting one of the strongest men in the world.”
- What to anticipate: “We are both complete fighters. We can strike and grapple as well. I am ready to fight wherever the fight goes.”
What are the pre-fight occasions?
The principle struggle shall be preceded by way of 4 occasions:
- Ladies’s Featherweight: Cris “Cyborg” vs Larissa Pacheco
- Bellator Middleweight: Johnny Eblen vs Fabian Edwards
- Featherweight: Husein Kadimagomaev vs Zafar Mohsen
- Light-weight: AJ McKee vs Paul Hughes
Who’s at the undercards?
5 undercard fights will create as much as the primary match in Riyadh:
- Bantamweight: Raufeon Stots vs Marcos Breno
- Light-weight: Makkasharip Zaynukov vs Dedrek Sanders
- Featherweight: Ibragim Ibragimov vs Nacho Campos
- Middleweight: Mostafa Nada vs Ahmed Sami
- Featherweight: Youssef Al Housani vs Taha Bendaoud
Has Ngannou left boxing for MMA?
Negative. The fighter has been pursuing each since resignation the UFC in early 2023.