MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is scheduled to collide with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
However, Ngannou has not forgotten about a potential rematch with WBC world champion Tyson Fury.
Last October, Ngannou made his professional boxing debut against Fury.
Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, dropped Fury in the third round and made it a very competitive fight for the entire ten rounds.
After the smoke had cleared, Fury came away with a razor-close split decision victory.
Ngannou believes he did enough to win the fight and called out for an immediate rematch.
On the other hand, Fury is set to collide with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk in a high-stakes undisputed fight on February 17 in Riyadh.
Regardless of who wins, there is a rematch clause where a second fight is likely to happen near the end of the year.
Ngannou wants a second fight with Fury regardless of the outcome of the upcoming fight with Usyk.
“It’s going to happen,” Ngannou said on The MMA Hour. “I mean there’s Fury and [Oleksandr] Usyk, even then we spoke about it. There’s Fury and Usyk going on, so [the Joshua fight] was like an opportunity. I was waiting for Fury, but this was the opportunity that I was happy to take, I [asked] for. And at the end of the day, this won’t take anything away from the Fury rematch.
“[The rematch has] never been right away. I think there’s even a slight chance that the ‘right away’ is the Usyk rematch. Because I think their term is even closer, our rematch term was in one year. Within one year. Which is still gonna be in October this year.”