Tyson Fury is so confident that he’s going to stop Francis Ngannou, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion is even calling his shot against the former UFC titleholder ahead of their pay-per-view (PPV) boxing spectacle on Oct. 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Prepare yourself for a lot of booming and banging.
“I’m going to knock him out inside six rounds,” Fury told TNT Sports Boxing. “Shall I tell you how I’m going to do it? Got on the front foot, high arms, sticking him with a punishing jab, 19, 20 stone in the face — boom, boom, boom — bust him up, swell his eyes out, and then feint, slip, bang. KO. On the front foot, not running away. On the front foot, hand [guarding my] eye, let him hit the shoulder, slip, slip, bang, slip, slip, bang — down in a heap. Listen, no one can take my power. Nobody. These heavyweights don’t have a chance. I’m going to come out, nice, stiff, snappy jab — bang. Doubling up, maybe even tripling it — bang. Bang, bang, bang. Jab, slip, slip, slip, body shot, uppercut, jab, jab, feint — bang, right hand. Game over.”
Shouldn’t be hard against a “zero-fight novice.”
“Wow, that looks like a script from a movie,” Ngannou responded. “But as you said earlier, everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. I really believe that everything is possible, and let me tell you something, from where I came from, everything that I have done, nobody believed in me. They thought I was a fool. The moment that I went to do boxing for the first time, I was 22 years old and people thought I was crazy. If I wasn’t big and scary, even my family would’ve put me in a psychiatric hospital because they thought I was losing my sense. Even my mom told me, ‘Hey son, I love you and I’ll always support you, but I hope that you come to your senses at some point in time.’ Right? Until I proved them wrong.”
We’ll see who’s right and who’s wrong this weekend in Riyadh.
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
