{"id":438593,"date":"2023-06-26T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438593"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:57:54","slug":"bhullar-ngannou-beat-the-machine-with-his-pfl-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bhullar-ngannou-beat-the-machine-with-his-pfl-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhullar: Ngannou &#8216;beat the machine&#8217; with his PFL contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arjan Bhullar praises Francis Ngannou for betting on himself by inking with the PFL.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-heavyweight champ Ngannou left UFC and joined the PFL, which gives him the opportunity to box and he is on the wheel regarding promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-ONE Championship heavyweight champion Bhullar (11-2) \u2013 he was defeated last Friday by the interim champion Anatoly Malykhin (13-0) in a title unification fight, believes Francis&#8217;s contract will only contribute positively for fighters in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ngannou was able to beat the machine and secure a great contract for himself,&#8221; Arjan shares with MMA Junkie. &#8220;It proves MMA is real because he&#8217;s the highest-paid heavyweight in history, and he isn&#8217;t part of the UFC. The UFC doesn&#8217;t represent the entire combat sport. MMA is a real option. There are other organizations, and Francis proved that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arjan Bhullar: Francis Ngannou &#8216;beat the machine&#8217; with PFL deal, proved &#8216;UFC isn&#8217;t the entire sport&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LBRRzDtUGu\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/LBRRzDtUGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAJunkie\/status\/1673077288009621504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 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>Arjan Bhullar praises Francis Ngannou for betting on himself by inking with the PFL. Ex-heavyweight champ Ngannou left UFC and joined the PFL, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20123,19306,18148],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[20124,1093,1280],"acf":{"announce":"Francis showed, 'UFC isn't the entire sport.'","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\/438593"}],"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=438593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438593"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438593"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}