Francis Ngannou needed a little over a minute to get Renan Ferreira to the ground. He needed just a few more minutes to put the Brazilian to sleep.
Fighting in MMA for the first time since January 2022, the former UFC heavyweight champion smashed through 2023 PFL heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira on Saturday, earning a first-round knockout in the main event of PFL: Battle of the Giants inside Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
It was an emotional win for Ngannou, who lost his 15-month-old son to a rare disease in April, just 50 days after suffering a brutal knockout loss to Anthony Joshua.