{"id":16304,"date":"2023-10-29T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:05:02","slug":"tyson-fury-wins-split-decision-against-mma-fighter-ngannou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16304","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury Wins Split Decision Against MMA Fighter Ngannou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">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 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ngannou knocked Fury down in round three but the 35-year-old British fighter, though shaken, was able to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fury was the overwhelming favourite against boxing novice Ngannou.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis was my first boxing match, great experience \u2013 I\u2019m not giving any excuse,\u201d Ngannou said in a ringside interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI know I come up short, I\u2019m going to come back and work harder\u2026 now I know I can do this.<\/span><\/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 went the distance in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7930,7929,7928,6497],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-francis-ngannou","tag-mma-fighter","tag-split-decision","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16306,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}