Francis Ngannou set for ‘life-changing’ purse in Tyson Fury bout
Broken-down UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is anticipated to manufacture — by a ways — his splendid-ever profession payday when he takes on WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in their October 28 boxing match in Saudi Arabia.
It modified into once confirmed earlier this week that Ngannou will manufacture his reliable boxing debut in the officially-sanctioned non-exhibition conflict in opposition to the unbeaten champion Fury, in a pass which comes plenty of months a ways flung from him walking a ways flung from the UFC after phrases on a sleek contract weren’t agreed.
Ngannou’s closing UFC bout in early 2022 in opposition to Ciyrl Gane saw him take dwelling a disclosed payout of upright $600,000, and while the actual sum has no longer yet been disclosed his supervisor has acknowledged that it will doubtless be “multiples” more than the total price he bought at some level of his complete UFC profession.
“Right here’s life-changing,” his supervisor, Marquel Martin, acknowledged to The MMA Hour. “Right here’s precisely what we deliberate and visualised so we’re delighted.” And when requested the plan it compares to his UFC payouts, Martin acknowledged: “by a ways, by multiples” and added that Ngannou “would have needed to conflict, even by being champion, just a few occasions upright to be in this ballpark.”
Ngannou signed a deal earlier this three hundred and sixty five days with the PFL which affords him the skill to take on challenges in the boxing ring simultaneous to his MMA profession. He’s anticipated to manufacture his mixed martial arts debut for the organisation in 2024.
“I felt fancy I modified into once slapped in the face with cash,” Ngannou acknowledged, additionally to The MMA Hour, earlier this three hundred and sixty five days. “It modified into once fancy, ‘Steal the cash and shut up.’ That didn’t work with me. In that contract, I’m no longer free, I’m no longer an self sustaining contractor. I hand over all energy to [UFC], and I’ve viewed in the previous the manner you preserve that energy over me. I don’t desire that again.”
And if Ngannou can pull off the unthinkable and turn out to be the first fighter to defeat Tyson Fury in a reliable boxing ring, you are going to be in a situation to query those paydays to manufacture greater a ways more sooner than what would doubtless be an inevitable rematch.
