{"id":4408,"date":"2024-09-21T10:09:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T15:10:45","slug":"francis-ngannou-talks-about-losing-his-child-i-fought-this-battle-to-honor-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/francis-ngannou-talks-about-losing-his-child-i-fought-this-battle-to-honor-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou talks about losing his child: &#8220;I fought this battle to honor my son&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Francis Ngannou, who will soon fight against Renan Ferreira, spoke about the tragic loss of his son that occurred last March. After two boxing matches against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, Francis Ngannou has finally returned to mixed martial arts. He will face Renan Ferreira on October 18 for the heavyweight title in the Professional Fighters League. The two fighters have already had an impressive face-off. For his debut in the PFL, &#8220;The Predator&#8221; is expected to receive a massive salary. Currently, the former UFC champion is promoting his fight in the media. He appeared on Friday on the <strong>Clique<\/strong> show on <strong>Canal+<\/strong>. He spoke about his upcoming fight, but also about the tragic loss of his son in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_95916\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7mCWZR2jKI?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;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Francis Ngannou&#8217;s emotional speech:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Francis Ngannou lost his son in March 2024. The Cameroonian had already spoken about his tragedy for the first time with Joe Rogan last July. But &#8220;The Predator&#8221; wanted to once again talk about the tragic event last Friday with Mouloud Achour on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1836879826289934410\"><strong>Clique<\/strong><\/a> show.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Francis Ngannou speaks out about the heartbreaking loss of his child <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b6GqknEjGF\">pic.twitter.com\/b6GqknEjGF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1836879826289934410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Francis Ngannou expresses his helplessness in the face of his child\u2019s death. He also admits that he considered retiring after the tragedy. However, after some reflection, the former UFC champion decided to continue fighting. For him, it is the best way to honor his son.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou, who will soon fight against Renan Ferreira, spoke about the tragic loss of his son that occurred last March. After two boxing matches against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, Francis Ngannou has finally returned to mixed martial arts. He will face Renan Ferreira on October 18 for the heavyweight title in the Professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,29,45,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxe","8":"category-boxing-news","9":"category-mma","10":"category-mma-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408"}],"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=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}