Anthony Joshua ‘only wants to fight Francis Ngannou to win bragging rights over Tyson Fury’, claims ex-champ
Anthony Joshua 'only wants to fight Francis Ngannou to win bragging rights over Tyson Fury', claims ex-champ
ANTHONY JOSHUA has been accused of preventing Francis Ngannou solely as a way to one-up Tyson Fury.
Ngannou last yr put his MMA career on maintain to cross over to the boxing ring to face Fury in October.
And Fury virtually suffered probably the most disastrous of nights having been dropped in round three and taken to the wire over ten rounds.
He managed to escape with a controversial split-decision, retaining his undisputed title decider with Oleksandr Usyk, set for February 17, alive.
So with a rematch dominated out, Ngannou struck a cope with AJ, whose super-fight with Deontay Wilder was blown after the American was beaten.
However retired former super-middleweight champion Carl Froch believes Joshua is simply preventing Ngannou to attempt to higher Fury's efficiency.
He advised Lord Ping: "It's dangerous for boxing because who needs to observe it?
"As a result of when Joshua wins, what's he completed? What's he achieved? F*** all.
"All he needs is bragging rights to say he did a greater job than Fury, but nobody cares.
"Joshua-Ngannou is a pointless battle. It's doing nothing for boxing.
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"Positive, it retains him ticking over while he waits for the winner of Fury versus Usyk, but why not battle a real boxer; struggle Zhilei Zhang, battle Joe Joyce, struggle Daniel Dubois.
"There are fights obtainable to Joshua towards prime contenders and real boxers. However as an alternative he's leaping in with Ngannou in a pointless exhibition."
Regardless of Froch's blast, boxing bosses in Saudi need the winner of Fury and Usyk's unification bout to then fight the victory of Joshua and Ngannou.
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