WBC Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury and former UFC 265-pound titleholder Francis Ngannou will collide in a special 10-round, non-title exhibition boxing match this Sat. night (Oct. 28, 2023) inside Boulevard Hall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a blockbuster ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV) card that also features the British heavyweight title fight between Fabio Wardley (c) and David Adeleye.
The entire Fury vs. Ngannou fight card streams LIVE at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV (order here) as well as traditional cable and satellite PPV providers. Fury vs. Ngannou costs $79.99 to purchase, the same as a standard UFC PPV event. UK boxing fans can order through TNT Sports Box Office while the rest of the world (excluding US, UK, Canada, and Ireland) can stream on DAZN PPV.
Here’s the complete Fury vs. Ngannou ESPN+ PPV fight card:
Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou, 10 rounds, heavyweight
Fabio Wardley vs. David Adeleye, 12 rounds, heavyweight
Joseph Parker vs. Simon Kean, 10 rounds, heavyweight
Arslanbek Makhmudov vs. Junior Anthony Wright, 10 rounds, heavyweight
Moses Itauma vs. Istvan Bernath, 6 rounds, heavyweight
Main event ring walks are tentatively scheduled for 5:40 p.m. ET.
“I can stand and trade with anybody. I stood and traded with Wilder. I traded with Wladimir {Klitschko}, and I’ll stand and trade with this little b*tch,” Fury said during Tuesday’s grand arrivals. “I might give him a slick, master boxing performance, not let the ugly man touch me once. That would be unbelievable, wouldn’t it? I might start dancing, tripling the jab like Apollo Creed, move around, just stick and move.”
“I didn’t try to replicate what Fury would do. I’m not going in there to play Fury’s game. I’m going there to play my own game,” Ngannou said. “So, my training was based on me, how I can fight, and that’s what me and my coaches worked on. It went well. Tough, but it went well. I’m aware of my lack of experience in boxing, but I am a man of challenges, and I’ve overcome a lot of challenges.”
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This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
