{"id":2628,"date":"2023-11-28T20:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:57:14","slug":"a-pfl-champion-targets-francis-ngannou-im-going-to-put-him-out-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/a-pfl-champion-targets-francis-ngannou-im-going-to-put-him-out-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A PFL champion targets Francis Ngannou: \u201cI\u2019m going to put him out of action!\u201d \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reigning PFL champion and former UFC fighter Impa Kasanganay wants a fight with Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last Friday in the PFL World Championship 2023 final, Impa Kasanganay (15-3) earned a unanimous decision victory over Josh Silveira. Thus, the American obtained a fifth victory in the PFL SmartCage, and became the light heavyweight champion, and pocketed the $1 million promised to the winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the rest of his career, Kasanganay has several options. With the purchase of Bellator by the PFL, the man nicknamed &#8216;Tshilobo&#8217; could face the promotion&#8217;s light heavyweight titleholder, Vadim Nemkov, in a champion versus champion fight. On \u201cThe MMA Hour,\u201d Impa Kasanganay made another suggestion: a clash against former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou (17-3).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_99022\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_TZMeBzYog?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFrancis Ngannou, it\u2019s possible, that\u2019s for sure. Ngannou is a warrior. I met him once at the UFC Performance Institute. He is an extraordinary man, he inspires me a lot, he wants to be the best (\u2026) I am not here to measure myself against Ngannou, nor to test myself, nor to try to win. I&#8217;m going to go get this victory. I have never been as heavy as 111 kg. He may be bigger, but my heart and my mind, I tell you, I mean it from the bottom of my heart, I will put him out of harm&#8217;s way, with all the respect I owe him. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He continued: \u201c(\u2026) I will happily go anywhere in the world to fight the best of the best. People might think I&#8217;m just talking, but that&#8217;s not the case. I would do it for free. If Ngannou beats me, let him take my entire purse, I don&#8217;t care. I would eliminate it. I&#8217;m here to be the best. If I beat him, he will pay me $15 million. I must deserve it. Maybe if I face Nemkov, some heavyweights, Ngannou will say to me: &#8216;Let&#8217;s go!&#8217; I&#8217;m going to be the best of the best and that&#8217;s it. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Francis Ngannou is expected to make his PFL debut in 2024. The Cameroonian has just put in a gigantic performance against WBC champion Tyson Fury, and also plans to return to the ring. Elsewhere, Dan Hardy declared what he thinks was the best boxing match for the \u2018Predator\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning PFL champion and former UFC fighter Impa Kasanganay wants a fight with Francis Ngannou. Last Friday in the PFL World Championship 2023 final, Impa Kasanganay (15-3) earned a unanimous decision victory over Josh Silveira. Thus, the American obtained a fifth victory in the PFL SmartCage, and became the light heavyweight champion, and pocketed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-billator","8":"category-pfl-mma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}