ESPN were forced to issue an apology for their expletive-laden interview with Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou.
The pair did a joint interview with the broadcaster after Fury’s sixth-round KO victory over Dillian Whyte on Saturday night.
The WBC and UFC heavyweight champs were clearly excited by the prospect of fighting one another, so much so Ngannou swore before the American watershed.
He said: “We’re going to find out who the Baddest Motherf***er on the Planet is?”
A jubilant and fired-up Fury roared: “Good man, Francis!”
The interviewer quickly interjected and said: “We apologise for the language.”
Fury then bizarrely asked Ngannou about the size of his penis, saying: “Have you got a big corey?”
Ngannou was perplexed until Fury pointed between his legs, prompting the pair to laugh and briefly embrace.
Fury, 33, is looking forward to sharing the ring with The Predator, saying: “This is going to be a very special fight.
“Like never before seen in the history of our sport. We’re not talking about two light guys who are 140lbs.
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“I’m 270, he’s 270lbs. So it’s going to be an explosive fight when it happens.”
Ngannou, who is out of contract with the UFC in December, added: It’s going to be a hybrid with different type of rules.
“MMA gloves in the ring kind of mixed up. Mixed up [and] a little different.”
Ngannou, 35, is currently embroiled in a contract dispute with the UFC as he wants to box as well as compete in mixed martial arts.
And he’s confident a crossover clash with Fury will come to fruition, telling BT Sport: “Definitely sometime next year. 2023.
“That fight will happen!”
“Because by the end of the year, to know exactly [where I stand], we’re going to sort it and get settled and ready to go.”
FURY VS WILDER – ROUND BY ROUND
R1
Fury arrived draped in a St George’s cross gown, for the patron’s day, with a handful of towels wrapped around his shoulders, making his 6ft 9in, 19st frame look even more imposing.
In a huge shock it was Whyte and not switch-hitting Fury who started in the unfamiliar southpaw stance.
The Brixon Body Snatcher aimed lead right hooks at Fury’s torso and he replied with right hands into Whyte’s high guard.
R2
Whte reverted to his orthodox stance for the second and threw his first huge right haymaker, missing Fury by miles and almost demolishing the ring by crashing his shot into the ropes.
Fury threw the more accurate shots, Whyte caught most of them but couldn’t land his trademark counters.
R3
Fury scored points with a couple of lead left hooks and made the crowd whoop with a double-jab-right-cross.
Whyte was always marching forward but Fury was tagging him expertly on the backfoot. The 13lbs Fury had trained off since the final magnificent Deontay Wilder win was helping him dance around the outskirts of the ring once again, like the 2015 glory days when he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko.
R4
There was a crunching clash of heads at the very start of the fiurth and respoected ref Mark Lyson had to warn them both.
Whyte landed his first clubbing left hook but then had a heavyweight wrestle and the little official was brave to get in between almost 40st of raging bull.
R5
Fury’s trainer Sugar Hill Steward told his man to dance and jab in the fifth and avoid the roughhousing.
Whyte seemed to wobble from a left hook but he looked at the canvas like he was searching for divot and laughed it off.
Fury then cracked in a one-two that almost definitely hurt the former kickboxer and he started to use the better body blows.
R6
Fury was bouncing and moving between clever attacks, his love handles rippling with his flow.
Then there was a ten second warning for the end of tehe round and Fury detonated a magnificent uppercut for the ages.
The Brixton man collapsed and bravely tried to beat the count but he was sprawling and crawing against the tide and the referee rightly waved it off to save him.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
