Veteran UFC color-commentator, Joe Rogan has claimed if former promotional heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou were to take on former WBC heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury in a ‘real’ fight — the former would “destroy” the punching star.
Ngannou, a former undisputed heavyweight UFC champion, made his long-anticipated professional boxing debut against the previously mentioned Morecambe native, Fury last summer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — forcing him the distance in his first-ever venture to the ring.
And even scoring a jaw-dropping knockdown early in the bout, Batie native, Ngannou would find himself on the wrong side of a huge controversial split decision loss upon the judge’s scorecards, despite receiving plaudit after plaudit from fellow fighters and those within both the mixed martial arts and boxing communities.