Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
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Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
Key occasions
Here’s the place issues stand with at this time’s order of play. So far we’ve breezed by means of the all-heavyweight pay-per-view undercard:
-
Martin Bakole TKO 4 Carlos Takam
-
Moses Itauma TKO 1 István Bernáth
-
Arslanbek Makhmudov TKO 1 Junior Anthony Wright Jr
-
Joseph Parker KO 3 Simon Kean
The last preliminary bout has simply gotten below method and it’s the finest of the crop: a scheduled 12-round scrap between unbeaten British prospects Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs) and David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs).

Prelude
Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for tonight’s crossover match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. It’s been billed as the Battle of the Baddest: a scheduled 10-round boxing match between the most interesting heavyweight boxer of his technology, unbeaten in 34 paying fights, towards a former UFC champion with no skilled boxing expertise who hasn’t fought in almost two years. It doesn’t take an skilled to know the way this one will play out.
But we groundlings love a sideshow and at all times have, making us inclined to promotional stunts like these for as so long as anybody can keep in mind. There was Ali’s risible struggle with the Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, extensively considered the most embarrassing second of the Greatest’s profession. There had been Jesse Owens’ lamentable match races towards thoroughbred horses, a humiliating comedown for the Olympic hero who had stared down Hitler in Berlin. There was the much-ballyhooed 150m race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson at Toronto’s SkyDome to find out the title of world’s quickest man. And, of course, Floyd Maywether v Conor McGregor, maybe the closest analogue to the mundanity afoot.
Contrary to early stories, tonight’s struggle isn’t an exhibition and can rely as an official bout. However, Fury’s WBC heavyweight title is not going to be on the line.
“I need to be on my ‘A’ game because there’s more on the line now than a boxing fight,” Fury mentioned. “If I lost to an MMA guy, I’m never going to be able to show my face in public again. There’s going to be ridicule and people are going to chuck it in my face forever. There’s more riding on this than there ever has been before.”
We’re round an hour from the foremost occasion ringwalks. Plenty to come back between from time to time.
Bryan can be right here shortly. Here’s our Donald McRae’s lookahead to at this time’s foremost occasion.
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