Francis Ngannou made his return to MMA for the first time since 2022. Ngannou made his PFL debut against Renan Ferreira for the heavyweight championship. Ngannou looked like he didn’t skip a beat as he made easy work of Ferreira defeating him in the first round via TKO.
Francis Ngannou took down Ferreira and displayed his ground game. Many people questioned Nganoou’s sharpness coming into the fight considering his layoff from MMA and spending time in the boxing scene having fought two fights.