Updated On: 30 October, 2023 08:11 AM IST | Riyadh | AFP
The final rounds dragged as both men tired, neither able to land a decisive blow. “I don’t know how close it was, but I got the win and that’s how it was,” Fury said

Tyson Fury after his win over Francis Ngannou in Riyadh yesterday. Pic/AFP
World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury beat mixed martial arts fighter Francis Ngannou in a split decision after their boxing bout went the distance in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
Ngannou knocked Fury down in round three but the 35-year-old British fighter, though shaken, was able to continue. The undefeated Fury, who earlier this week laughed off his opponent as a “big fat sausage”, afterwards acknowledged that the 37-year-old Cameroonian had effectively kept him off-balance.
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