Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-03-08, some good exchanges and a spectacular finish: Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou is one of the best boxing fights of the year 2024 and it gets four stars!Ngannou vs Joshua is scheduled to take place Friday, March 8th, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), in a 10-round heavyweight (over 200 lbs, 90.7 kg) bout; it is the main event of the evening. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Anthony Joshua record
The 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist and former IBF, IBO, WBO, WBA world champ Anthony Joshua entered this fight with a professional boxing record of 27-3-0 (24 KOs=89%) and he is ranked as the No.2 heavyweight in the world.
AJ lost two consecutive fights between 2021 and 2022, both against current #1 Hw Oleksandr Usyk (Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk I and Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II), but then he has won three bouts beating Robert Helenius (Anthony Joshua vs Robert Helenius) and Otto Wallin in his last two (Anthony Joshua vs Otto Wallin).
But if you want to watch Joshua’s best fights, here are two exciting matches:
- Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte, 4-stars bout of 2015
- Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko, ‘The Ring magazine’ Fight of the Year 2017
Francis Ngannou record
His opponent, the former Ufc Hw champ Francis Ngannou, has an official record of 0-1-0 (but he has a mma record of 17-3-0 with a 94% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.33 in the heavyweight division.
In his boxing debut he has lost, via split decision, to Tyson Fury (Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou).
In his mma carrer he lost two consecutive bouts in 2018, against Stipe Miocic in their first fight (Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou I) and Derrick Lewis (Francis Ngannou vs Derrick Lewis), but then he has won six fights defeating Jairzinho Rozenstruik (bout ranked in the top 10 Users’ mma Fights of the Year 2020, Francis Ngannou vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik), Stipe Miocic in their rematch (4-stars fight, Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou II) and Ciryl Gane in his last three (Francis Ngannou vs Ciryl Gane).
Pre-fight press conference
Watch for free the pre-fight press conference video, featuring Francis Ngannou and Anthony Joshua, from the official Sky Sports Boxing Youtube channel!
Weigh-in
Watch the video of Joshua vs Ngannou weigh-in from the official DAZN Boxing Youtube channel!
Full fight video / highlights
Here we are going to post a selection of the best videos about the bout Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou as soon as the match ends. If you have seen the full fight you can rate it at the bottom of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, etc. and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
Official highlights
Result
Who won Joshua vs Ngannou fight?
Anthony Joshua defeated Francis Ngannou via KO, round 2.
Post-fight press conference
Watch and listen the official post-fight press conference video, headlined by the main event Francis Ngannou and Anthony Joshua (free live stream from the Sky Sports Boxing Youtube channel).
Really feel that Joshua has already won K.O. of the Year.
This rating is terrible! Joshua vs. Ngannou gets four stars?? How does this get more stars than the 2023 FOTY? Whoever is in charge of rating these fights doesn’t know what they’re doing.