{"id":9138,"date":"2023-01-19T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/dillian-white-calls-out-francis-ngannou-in-crossover-boxing-match\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T22:14:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:14:51","slug":"dillian-white-calls-out-francis-ngannou-in-crossover-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/dillian-white-calls-out-francis-ngannou-in-crossover-boxing-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillian White calls out Francis Ngannou in crossover boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dillian White has revealed that he &#8220;loves to fight&#8221; Francis Ngannou in a boxing match after being released by the UFC earlier this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White, 35, explained that he wanted to give Ngannou, known as &#8220;The Predator,&#8221; enough time to prepare for the fight.  <\/p>\n<p>And White, known by the nickname &#8220;The Body Snatcher,&#8221; plans to lure Ngannou into the ring. <\/p>\n<p>He even suggested a date for a potential clash between the pair, which he suggested should take place as early as spring. <\/p>\n<h2>What did Dillian White say about Francis Ngannou?<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports, White said:<em>.<\/em> Obviously he&#8217;s a champion and a dangerous guy, but I&#8217;m going to beat him up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a very interesting fight because we both have martial arts backgrounds and he&#8217;s ready to fight someone like me and dive into the deep end.&#8221; It will attract interest and attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a former UFC champion and he&#8217;ll be up against a top heavyweight like me, so fans around the world want to see it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Late March, early April or something. That would give him enough time for a full camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a fair fight. He will have time to train, I will have time to train and we will have a very good boxing fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Francis Ngannou says boxing &#8216;not very good&#8217; after leaving UFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"Dillian White wants to fight Francis Ngannou\" class=\"wp-image-88106957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.givemesport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dillian-whyte-wants-to-fight-francis-ngannou-2048x1343.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dillian White wants to fight Francis Ngannou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Will Dillian White fight Francis Ngannou in MMA?<\/h2>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s not only confident in beating him in the ring, but also fantasizes about his chances in the cage. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They know boxing makes more money than MMA,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to be champions in two sports, that&#8217;s what I wanted to do, so I can understand his great desire to do something like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these boxers make fun of MMA and martial arts fighters and beat them in the boxing ring, but they don&#8217;t have the courage to enter the cage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s much easier to knock people out with 4-ounce gloves with very little padding. Can he do the same with 10-ounce boxing gloves? I know I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Francis Ngannou wants to fight Tyson Fury or Anthony Joshua in his boxing debut<\/strong><\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"snack-quiz\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-quiz\/dist\/front-end\/css\/snack-quiz.min.css?230119-85910\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Get all the latest information <strong>boxing news<\/strong> Here at GIVEME SPORT.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"gms-circulation\">next story previous story<br \/>\n    <\/nav>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>News Now &#8211; Sports News<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiWWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmdpdmVtZXNwb3J0LmNvbS84ODEwNjg5OS1kaWxsaWFuLXdoeXRlLWZyYW5jaXMtbmdhbm5vdS1jcm9zc292ZXItYm94aW5nLW1hdGNo0gFdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2l2ZW1lc3BvcnQuY29tLzg4MTA2ODk5LWRpbGxpYW4td2h5dGUtZnJhbmNpcy1uZ2Fubm91LWNyb3Nzb3Zlci1ib3hpbmctbWF0Y2gvYW1w?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dillian White has revealed that he &#8220;loves to fight&#8221; Francis Ngannou in a boxing match after being released by the UFC earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-mma-combat-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-dillian-whyte-francis-ngannou.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}