Eddie Hearn Wants Joshua Vs. Ngannou Next: Is He Name Dropping Again? – SolSportHQ
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By Brian Webber: Eddie Hearn says he wants to put together a fight between Anthony Joshua and the famous, red-hot Francis Ngannou, who is fresh off a robbery loss against the best heavyweight on the planet Tyson Fury last weekend.
Some boxing fans suspect that Hearn is up to his old clout-chasing tricks, name-dropping Ngannou in order to keep attention focused on his fighter Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs), whose career has sunk to the lowly depths in recent years, and now is considered an old dog on his last legs.
If Hearn isn’t just using Ngannou for clout-chasing purposes like he’s been doing with Deontay Wilder for the past year, it’s a fight that would be huge and bring in a lot of revenue.
It would Joshua a chance to potentially turn his stagnant career around to catapult him into a mega-fight with the winner of the Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk undisputed championship.
In a perfect world. Joshua beats these four heavyweights to revitalize his career and retake the #1 spot in an unthinkable turnaround:
1. Francis Ngannou
2. Tyson Fury
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Oleksandr Usyk
If Joshua can run the gauntlet and beat those four, it would be one of the biggest career turnarounds of all time without question because boxing fans have already written him off as being shot to pieces, and beyond salvageable.
“I have to speak to the boss, but I like AJ-Ngannou. For me, light work,” said Eddie Hearn to the Boxing Social YouTube channel, saying he wants Anthony Joshua to face Francis Ngannou next in a fight that he thinks AJ easily wins.
Ngannou would undoubtedly be up for a fight with Joshua if Hearn is serious about making this match-up and not just using Francis’ name to keep fans from forgetting about AJ.
“I know I talked about the levels of Francis Ngannou, and I have to be honest,” said Hearn. “I’m not going to stand here and say, ‘I think he’s a world-class heavyweight, but you have to respect that he just beat Tyson Fury. I guess you can say it was a close fight, but everyone thought that Ngannou won.”
Fury losing to the novice Ngannou has got to be the unkindest cut of all, as he’s turned him into the laughing stock of the boxing & MMA world, getting put in his place by a fighter with no experience in the squared circle.
The loss for Fury cements the fact that he was a 100% hype job all along and never the fighter that the simple-minded casuals thought he was.
All this blather about how Fury was one of the greatest heavyweights of all time was just pure junk that uninformed fans dreamed up without looking closely at his empty resume and realizing that he’s never fought anyone good.
Fury’s best win over an old and rudderless 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko proved nothing. Wladimir was shot, and just a shell of the guy he had been years lier, and without trainer Emanuel Steward, who passed away three years earlier.
Fury exposed as a hype job
“It was actually two lucky decisions for the Fury’s in two or three weeks,” said Hearn. “The way the Saudis do these events is unbelievable. The fight wasn’t the greatest in the world, but Francis Ngannou won. This is not a dream, or he should have been given the decision.”
Poor Fury. He gets beaten soundly by Ngannou, and now he has to live with the loss without running it back. Mentally, this is going to mess Fury up big time going into his first quarter undisputed clash with Oleksandr Usyk,
“The result was bad for boxing because what actually should have happened was that some random MMA fighter had never boxed before and just became the lineal heavyweight champion, and it should have been one of the most incredible stories in the history of boxing,” said Hearn.
Nah, Fury’s loss was “bad” for him, but not for boxing. All this fight did was put the spotlight on Fury, showing that he’d been protected by his promoters, who took a basketball player-type boxer and carefully matched him.
Fury was helped out by thescoring of his first fight with John McDermott, and the referees that didn’t stop his first & third fights with Deontay Wilder when he was clearly knocked out.
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