{"id":437853,"date":"2023-06-14T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437853"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:04:56","slug":"ngannou-discusses-wilder-danas-furry-offer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ngannou-discusses-wilder-danas-furry-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngannou discusses Wilder, Dana\u2019s Furry offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou was unaware of Deontay Wilder appearing at a PFL event but was happy to see him.<\/p>\n<p>Deontay addressed a 2-fight exchange with Francis last week, and the ex-UFC fighter confirmed his discussions with the boxer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked about that not long ago before they announced the potential fight at the end of the year,\u201d Ngannou shared in an interview with The Schmo. \u201cSo that\u2019s why we are pausing it at the moment, for him to do what he needs to do in December, but we were sincere about a 2-fight contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis also shared that he would be happy to face Tyson Furry in a hybrid boxing\/MMA match, but he thinks Furry would never agree.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deontay Wilder says he\u2019s genuinely interested in a two fight deal versus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@francis_ngannou<\/a>: 1 mma fight and 1 boxing match. He says he \u201coffered\u201d it but unclear in this clip where it stands. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZPQFXj6s4R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZPQFXj6s4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1666972314783629314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou was unaware of Deontay Wilder appearing at a PFL event but was happy to see him. Deontay addressed a 2-fight exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437854,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18148],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[1093],"acf":{"announce":"Francis spoke about the topics.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437853"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437853"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}