{"id":486075,"date":"2024-08-07T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486075"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:14:50","slug":"ngannou-to-return-in-mma-on-october-19-fight-against-renan-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ngannou-to-return-in-mma-on-october-19-fight-against-renan-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngannou to return in MMA on October 19 fight against Renan Ferreira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou is set to return to MMA on October 19, where he will face Renan Ferreira in his promotional debut for the Professional Fighters League (PFL). Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, has shifted his focus back to MMA after a stint in boxing, where he fought against former world champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, losing to both.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Francis Ngannou is officially making his return to MMA vs. Renan Ferreira on October 19th for the PFL heavyweight title \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N4VCbpPdyy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/N4VCbpPdyy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/1821172097382547601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ngannou&#8217;s opponent, Brazil&#8217;s Renan Ferreira, is the winner of the PFL&#8217;s 2023 heavyweight tournament. Ferreira, 34, boasts an MMA record of 13 wins, three losses, and three no-contests, with 11 of his victories coming via knockout. He gained significant attention after defeating Bellator&#8217;s heavyweight champion Ryan Bader in February.<\/p>\n<p>The undercard for the event features a highly anticipated match between long-time Bellator featherweight champion Cris Cyborg and PFL two-weight champion Larissa Pacheco. Both the winners of the Ngannou-Ferreira and Cyborg-Pacheco fights will receive the PFL&#8217;s newly established &#8220;super-fights championship belt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ngannou, 37, has a formidable MMA record of 17 victories in 20 fights, with his last win being a points decision over Frenchman Ciryl Gane in the UFC in January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou is set to return to MMA on October 19, where he will face Renan Ferreira in his promotional debut for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486076,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20123,20541],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[20124,1072],"acf":{"announce":"The former UFC champion comes back after a short sting in boxing","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\/486075"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486077,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486075\/revisions\/486077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486075"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486075"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}