Tyson Fury remains to be sporting a nasty black eye a number of days after his battle with Francis Ngannou. The WBC heavyweight champion gained a controversial cut up resolution over the Cameroonian-French MMA star in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night time.

Many pundits felt Ngannou had finished sufficient to get his hand raised, nonetheless, two out of the three judges awarded the victory to the Gypsy King. Shortly after arriving again within the UK following his crossover conflict, Fury was snapped leaving his home in Morecambe Bay alongside his spouse Paris in a surprising Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II price over £300,000.

They have been additionally snapped for the primary time along with their new child and seventh baby, Prince Rico Paris Fury. Ngannou opened up as a 7/1 underdog with the bookies heading into his battle with Fury however exceeded all expectations by giving the undefeated skilled boxer one of many hardest fights of his profession.

The Mancunian was down within the third and badly damage within the eighth as he limped over the end line within the Middle East. Despite the huge gulf in expertise Fury visibly struggled to cope with Ngannou's marauding bodily presence.

The punch stats reveal Ngannou outlanded Fury 37 to 32 in energy photographs whereas the Brit acquired the higher of his foe by way of complete punches landed with 71 to the previous UFC heavyweight champion's 59. Spectators, just like the judges, have been cut up on who they felt ought to have been awarded the victory however most sided with the boxing novice.

"He's [Fury] been very lucky there. Let's put it into perspective, very lucky indeed. I don't agree with that, I think we all feel Ngannou won it," mentioned Richie Woodhall on commentary. 

In an identical vein, Carl Frampton mentioned: "I thought Ngannou won that fight. At times I could not believe what I was watching. Francis came into his first boxing match and was fighting the heavyweight champion of the world, how was he supposed to win? But in my eyes, he won. He boxed beautifully at times."

Meanwhile, Paulie Malignaggi sided with Fury when dissecting the battle on his YouTube channel. “At the end of the day, Ngannou wasn’t going to be a guy that was going to be able to stay consistent over the course of ten rounds," he said.

"By the end of the fight, Fury won the fight, it was a split decision, was it more competitive than we thought? Yeah, absolutely. Does Ngannou deserve a lot of credit and does Tyson Fury deserve the criticism? Absolutely. This was a class performance by Francis Ngannou regardless, but I don’t think that he won enough rounds and at the end of the day I had it about 96-93.

"I don’t think he won more than three rounds, maybe four rounds if you are a little bit generous, but he won the bigger rounds and Fury won all the quiet rounds, but you still have to score the quiet rounds.”