Joshua knocks out Ngannou in heavyweight bout
It took Anthony Joshua two rounds to beat Francis Ngannou in what was supposed to be a 10-round heavyweight bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The much anticipated fight ended a one-sided show as Joshua knocked down Ngannou twice, cruising to victory unhindered.
Though Ngannou had a good entrance into boxing, he was no match for Joshua. His defeat came easier and faster for Joshua, who took five rounds to batter and defeat Sweden’s Otto Wallin at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last December.
Coming from three morale-boosting victories last year, it was Joshua’s fourth consecutive victory after he lost two consecutive fights to Ukraine boxer Oleksandr Usyk, losing his belts.
For Ngannou, a mixed martial artist, whose professional boxing debuted last year in a 10-round bout against Tyson Fury, it was a second defeat in his newly-found career.
The fight against Joshua was his second as a boxer, a test of his impressive performance in his first outing in which he dropped Fury to the canvas with a fierce left hook in the third round.
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