{"id":369974,"date":"2024-02-22T23:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=369974"},"modified":"2024-02-23T02:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T02:02:57","slug":"combat-sports-icon-reveals-mma-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=369974","title":{"rendered":"Combat sports 'icon' reveals MMA return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superstar Francis 'The Predator' Ngannou will make his Professional Fighters League<\/a> debut against the winner of Sunday's (AEDT) heavyweight 'superfight' between Renan Ferreira and Ryan Bader.<\/p>\n

Ngannou shook up the combat sports world by signing with PFL in May<\/a> and gave Tyson Fury an almighty scare in his boxing debut in October<\/a>, knocking the champion to the canvas in the third round.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old will fight \ufeffanother heavyweight star, Anthony Joshua, on March 9 (AEDT) before turning his attention back to the PFL.<\/p>\n

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Ferreira and Bader are the main event on Sunday's PFL vs Bellator card at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.<\/a><\/p>\n

"Francis is a true combat sports icon with a global fan base and appeal," PFL chief executive Peter Murray said.<\/p>\n

"We, along with the rest of the MMA world, will be watching to see who his first opponent will be – Ferreira or Bader."<\/p>\n

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Ngannou will attend the Ferreira vs Bader fight in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

"I never thought I had finished my MMA career," Ngannou told ESPN.<\/p>\n

"I just wanted to chase my dream in boxing. Obviously, I can do both and combine them whenever the opportunity is there. I'm not done with MMA. How complicated that is for me will be new ground, but I really have a feeling I want to go back to my comfort zone and dominate for a little bit and then come back to boxing."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superstar Francis 'The Predator' Ngannou will make his Professional Fighters League debut against the winner of Sunday's (AEDT) heavyweight 'superfight' between Renan Ferreira and Ryan […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369978,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369974\/revisions\/369978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/343710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}