Eddie Hearn: Ngannou would be “absolutely colossal” for Joshua

Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou. Photo via Instagram (@anthonyjoshua) and (@francisngannou)

ormer two-time world boxing champion Anthony Joshua and former UFC champion Francis Ngannou could be facing each other in 2024.

Matchroom Boxing boss Eddie Hearn recently claimed that they are right now are in discussions for three fights for Joshua. One of the fight is a massive boxing bout against the former UFC heavyweight champion.

“Our aim, and we’ve expressed this, is to fight the winner of Fury-Usyk. That’s all we want to do. Obviously, there’s the [Filip] Hrgovic fight out there for the world heavyweight title. There’s a Francis Ngannou fight out there, which would be absolutely colossal. There’s other heavyweights as well. The [Zhilei] Zhang fight possibly as well with Queensbury,” Hearn told iFL TV.

The promoter and Joshua are excited for 2024 and intend to make it a big year.

“When you look at fighting March, fighting in September, maybe two fights against the Fury-Usyk winner, you’re talking four or five fights down the line, that may be it. He looked amazing last week, but five fights is another year and a half, maybe two years, so how much longer are you going to go?”

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Anthony Joshua no longer interested in Wilder

Anthony Joshua was expected to face former WBC world champion Deontay Wilder in a massive fight in March. However, since Wilder lost his fight against Joseph Parker the bout is off the table.

“You never know what’s going to happen in the future, but we both signed contracts to announce the fight that night, obviously subject to everybody winning,” Hearn said. “So when Wilder lost, it was like, what the fuck?”

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