{"id":3922,"date":"2023-10-29T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:43:31","slug":"tyson-fury-wins-split-decision-against-mma-fighter-ngannou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/tyson-fury-wins-split-decision-against-mma-fighter-ngannou\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury wins split decision against MMA fighter Ngannou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury beat mixed martial arts fighter Francis Ngannou in a split decision after their boxing bout went the distance in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ngannou knocked Fury down in round three but the 35-year-old British fighter, though shaken, was able to continue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The undefeated Fury earlier this week laughed off his opponent as a \u201cbig fat sausage\u201d but afterward acknowledged that the 37-year-old Cameroonian had effectively kept him off-balance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe\u2019s a very awkward man, and he\u2019s a good puncher and I respect him a lot,\u201d Fury said of Ngannou, adding that it was \u201cprobably one of the toughest\u201d fights he has had in a decade.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fury was the overwhelming favourite against boxing novice Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis was my first boxing match, great experience \u2013 I\u2019m not giving any excuse,\u201d Ngannou said in a ringside interview.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI know I come up short, I\u2019m going to come back and work harder\u2026 now I know I can do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury beat mixed martial arts fighter Francis Ngannou in a split decision after their boxing bout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}