Despite suffering a KO loss to Anthony Joshua in his second-ever boxing match it seems that Francis Ngannou might not be ready to return to MMA just yet.
“The way that this fight (Joshua fight) happened it’s not the way that it was supposed to or should’ve so I think now I need to do boxing to claim something, to claim my respect, to claim my dignity, to claim everything,” Ngannou said on The MMA Hour show.
“It depends on the time frame of what’s happened. Maybe it could be MMA first but I don’t know.”
And as for his intended opponent, the 37-year-old Ngannou is hoping for a rematch with Tyson Fury, who he narrowly lost to by split-decision in October of last year.
“I think Tyson Fury is still there, even on fight week he was always around teasing me, he was in places that I didn’t know what he was doing there, teasing me, there is a question mark there,” Ngannou said.
As for an eventual return to MMA, where he’s currently contracted to the PFL organization, the former UFC heavyweight champion says it’s something he looks forward to.
“I still get excited about the idea of fighting in MMA. MMA now is like, not the easier one but it’s the one I’m used to. I know in any fight you can lose but at least in MMA there are a lot of things I understand and things I can control, unlike boxing which is the wild-west. It’s a little more comfortable, to be honest.”
