{"id":13391,"date":"2023-07-13T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=13391"},"modified":"2023-07-13T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:06:02","slug":"will-real-boxing-fans-buy-the-ppv-for-tyson-fury-vs-francis-ngannou-on-october-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/will-real-boxing-fans-buy-the-ppv-for-tyson-fury-vs-francis-ngannou-on-october-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Real Boxing Fans Buy The PPV For Fury vs. Ngannou On October 28?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tyson-fury-and-francis-ngannou.jpg\" alt=\"Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou\" width=\"300\" title=\"Will Real Boxing Fans Buy The PPV For Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou On October 28?\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12175\" \/><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tyson Fury will fight Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia on Oct 28<\/li>\n<li>Ngannou is a former UFC heavyweight champ but has no boxing experience<\/li>\n<li>Will hardcore boxing fans be willing to pay money for this PPV?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WBC heavyweight champ <strong>Tyson \u201c<em>the Gypsy King<\/em>\u2019 Fury<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/tyson-fury-struggling-to-find-next-bout-after-oleksandr-usyk-talks-collapsed\/\">was looking to fight WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight champ <strong>Oleksandr Usyk<\/strong><\/a> in the UK or Saudi Arabia before the end of the year but those talks fell through.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury\u2019s camp has now confirmed that Fury will fight former UFC heavyweight boxing champ Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia on Oct 28. The two fighters had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/tyson-fury-asks-ufc-heavyweight-champ-francis-ngannou-to-box-him-and-make-real-money\/\">earlier spoken about a potential boxing match on social media<\/a>, so this fight announcement did not come as a major surprise. <\/p>\n<h2>Will Hardcore Boxing Fans Pay Money For PPV?<\/h2>\n<p>The big question is whether hardcore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/boxing\">boxing<\/a> fans will spend their money to buy this pay per view as Francis Ngannou is not a professional boxer whereas <strong>Tyson Fury is considered by many to be the best heavyweight boxer in the world right now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that this fight between the Gypsy King and the Predator Ngannou will take place as a normal professional boxing match which is completely in favour of Tyson Fury. While Ngannou has shown in his MMA career that he has devastating knockout power, it is clear that <strong>Ngannou is not a professional boxer<\/strong> and does not have high level boxing skills to beat someone like Fury!<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L4yzoenmn1o?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ngannou\u2019s best and only chance to beat Fury is going to be to land a big haymaker and see if he can put the Gypsy King to sleep! Ngannou who is all muscle has shown in the past that he gets gassed pretty quickly and this is another reason why this could be a very one-sided fight!<\/p>\n<p>There will be questions raised as to whether Fury will look to carry this fight by going easy on Ngannou during the first few rounds just to make the fight competitive and to give fight fans their money\u2019s worth!<\/p>\n<h2>Ngannou Will Make Boxing Debut Against Fury<\/h2>\n<p>To show you how one sided this fight is, Francis Ngannou is set to make his boxing debut against Fury! Ngannou\u2019s rep <strong>Marquel Martin<\/strong> said they plan to talk with the WBC to see if they can get Fury to put his WBC belt on the line and put Fury\u2019s boxing record on the line! All boxing fans had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/frank-warren-says-tyson-furys-next-fight-will-be-a-game-changer\/\">expecting &#8216;a game changer&#8217; opponent<\/a> after promoter Frank Warren hinted at something special, many will feel its been huge let down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Tyson Fury will fight Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia on Oct 28 Ngannou is a former UFC heavyweight champ but has no boxing experience Will hardcore boxing fans be willing to pay money for this PPV? WBC heavyweight champ Tyson \u201cthe Gypsy King\u2019 Fury was looking to fight WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight champ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-uk","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Real Boxing Fans Buy The PPV For Fury vs. Ngannou On October 28?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tyson Fury\u2019s camp has now confirmed that Fury will fight former UFC heavyweight boxing champ Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia on Oct 28.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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