{"id":475099,"date":"2024-01-06T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475099"},"modified":"2024-01-06T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:07:52","slug":"ngannou-will-face-joshua-in-a-boxing-match-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ngannou-will-face-joshua-in-a-boxing-match-in-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngannou will face Joshua in a boxing match in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou announced that they will appear in a heavyweight boxing bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Joshua CONFIRMS he will fight Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Saudi Arabia \ud83e\udd4a\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gonna be EPIC \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XelEC9AtHa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/XelEC9AtHa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mail Sport (@MailSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport\/status\/1743618497081479401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The match will be held on March 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony (27-3, 24 KOs) had been set to face Deontay Wilder in a long-awaited bout on March 9<sup>th<\/sup> in Saudi Arabia, but Deontay lost his fight in December to Joseph Parker. At the same event, the English boxer defeated Otto Wallin with a knockout in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<p>The December 23<sup>rd<\/sup> card in the Middle Eastern country was meant to set up the Anthony \u2013 Deontay fight, but now plans have changed, and we can watch an even more interesting clash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m on a journey, and I&#8217;m continuing to stay focused,&#8221; Joshua admitted after the victory against Otto. The boxing match was his debut with trainer Ben Davison. &#8220;I don&#8217;t celebrate when we triumph in these bouts. I celebrate when I secure the titles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou announced that they will appear in a heavyweight boxing bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anthony Joshua CONFIRMS he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,18144,20123],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18480,18146,20124],"acf":{"announce":"Francis and Anthony agreed to face each other in the boxing ring.","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\/475099"}],"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=475099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475103,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475099\/revisions\/475103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475099"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475099"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}