{"id":4665,"date":"2024-10-21T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:56:13","slug":"jon-jones-reacts-to-francis-ngannous-knockout-victory-he-put-on-an-incredible-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/jon-jones-reacts-to-francis-ngannous-knockout-victory-he-put-on-an-incredible-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones reacts to Francis Ngannou\u2019s knockout victory: &#8220;He put on an incredible performance!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Francis Ngannou once again lit up the combat arena with an impressive knockout victory over Renan Ferreira at the Professional Fighters League (PFL). After more than two and a half years out of the MMA cage, &#8220;The Predator&#8221; regained his power with a devastating first-round punch that ended the fight while Ferreira was in a dominant ground position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cameroonian giant, former UFC heavyweight champion, added another belt to his collection with the PFL, improving his MMA record to 18-3, having not lost since 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ngannou\u2019s victory this Saturday drew plenty of reactions, including from Jon Jones, the current UFC heavyweight champion. &#8220;Bones&#8221; didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to congratulate Ngannou on his stellar performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jon Jones: &#8220;What an incredible performance!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet on his X account, Jon Jones expressed his admiration for Ngannou&#8217;s performance. He wrote: &#8220;What an incredible performance by Francis tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What an amazing job Francis did tonight, displayed a complete MMA game. Great kicks, great takedowns. It feels good to see him shine. Wow congratulations Champ, I see you.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1847810622832226340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 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;\">He showed a complete MMA game \u2013 great kicks, great takedowns. It\u2019s great to see him shine. Wow, congratulations champ, I see you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sure, everyone beats me up until they\u2019re in there with me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g3dlMUe2wt\">https:\/\/t.co\/g3dlMUe2wt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1847810932237373459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 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;\">After this big win, Ngannou publicly expressed his desire to face Jon Jones. In his post-fight remarks, the Cameroonian confirmed that a fight with Jones is one he\u2019s always wanted. He said: &#8220;A fight against Jon Jones? That\u2019s the fight I\u2019ve always asked for! If I had to choose my final fight, it would definitely be against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As fans eagerly await a potential showdown between the two, Jon Jones is preparing to face Stipe Miocic at UFC 309, where he will attempt to defend his heavyweight title in what could be the final fight of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ngannou once again lit up the combat arena with an impressive knockout victory over Renan Ferreira at the Professional Fighters League (PFL). After more than two and a half years out of the MMA cage, &#8220;The Predator&#8221; regained his power with a devastating first-round punch that ended the fight while Ferreira was in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-pfl-mma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665"}],"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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}