Jake Paul and Francis Ngannou were linked to a fight previously nevertheless it didn’t come to fruition.
Before a shocking fight between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua was made, ‘The Problem Child’ and his team shortlisted several opponents.
Certainly one of whom was the previous UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, but ‘The Predator’ said that he felt offended by Paul’s offer.
And with Paul now promoting Ngannou’s comeback to MMA with MVP, the 29-year-old is once more targeting the 39-year-old for a possible future fight.
Paul believes Ngannou is scared about getting ’embarrassed’ in potential fight
The controversial boxer continues to be out of motion nursing the continued consequences of his broken jaw, suffered against Joshua.
Despite that, he’s taking a look at returning to motion as soon as possible, and he’s seemingly targeting ‘The Predator’ as his next opponent.
“I’d say there’s an extended list of opponents, I feel most recently Francis Ngannou was talking quite a lot of smack, I feel that’s a simple fight for me, I feel he’s a terrible boxer, I possibly wanna return as much as heavyweight and knock him out like Joshua did,” Paul told Sky Sports Boxing.
Following his brutal loss to AJ, Paul admitted that he would likely move back all the way down to cruiserweight for his next fight, nonetheless, a possible fight against Ngannou can be at heavyweight.
“He knows I lasted longer than him against Joshua, didn’t get put out. I feel he possibly wouldn’t do the fight because I feel deep down he wouldn’t need to get embarrassed, so, to me that’s a fun fight on the list.”
Before Ngannou can consider returning to the boxing ring for a possible fight against his recent promoter, he’ll compete in MMA for the primary time in two years when he takes on Philipe Lins on MVP MMA.
The event is ready to be one in every of the largest MMA events of the yr as it can be live streamed on Netflix as the primary ever MMA event on the platform.