{"id":394373,"date":"2022-06-27T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394373"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:08:40","slug":"francis-ngannou-shares-major-update-on-knee-injury-reveals-hes-still-doing-physical-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/francis-ngannou-shares-major-update-on-knee-injury-reveals-hes-still-doing-physical-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ngannou Shares Major Update on Knee Injury; Reveals He&#8217;s Still Doing Physical Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou spoke to TMZ and shared a massive update with fans about his recovery. Following his first title defense at UFC 270 against Ciryl Gane in January, Francis Ngannou revealed that he needed to undergo surgery for a torn MCL and a damaged ACL in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Predator\u2019 went under the knife back in March and he\u2019s finally spoken out about how things have been progressing ever since then. Ngannou revealed that he\u2019s been consistent with his physical therapy and is targeting a return to the cage towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w63Vm9J--yw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chiefly, this timeline is not over the top since knee surgeries usually take just under a year to heal organically and Ngannou will want to make a comeback in the best possible manner.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s getting better,\u201d Ngannou said. \u201cIt\u2019s been pretty good. It wasn\u2019t easy, but we\u2019re getting there. It\u2019s been only 3 months, so yeah, I\u2019m still doing physical therapy. If everything goes well I\u2019ll be ready by the end of the year because it\u2019s going to be nine months. So let\u2019s say late December or early next year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/stop-being-on-tmz-get-his-life-together-israel-adesanya-has-some-advice-for-arch-rival-jon-jones\/\">\u2018Stop Being on TMZ. Get His Life Together\u2019- Israel Adesanya Has Some Advice for Arch Rival Jon Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Ngannou was also asked about his ongoing battle with the UFC, which has seen him demand an opportunity to box Tyson Fury in order to continue on as the champion. \u2018The Predator\u2019 has made it clear that he wants to settle all the finer details before he makes a definitive comeback inside the octagon.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/francis_ngannou\/status\/1532048102454087682?s=20&#038;t=w9NsjeSGC6EWNWYdXJIEMg<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou know, as for now let\u2019s fight for the situation and get everything squared up, and then when I will be close to the return, we will see where the landscape is at because a lot of things can happen.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/27\/23184546\/morning-report-francis-ngannou-gives-update-on-recovery-says-a-december-return-is-possible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of compelling match-ups for Francis Ngannou upon his UFC return with the standout name being Jon Jones. Everyone in the MMA community is keen to see both men face off as it has the making of an all-time classic blockbuster fight written all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou spoke to TMZ and shared a massive update with fans about his recovery. Following his first title defense at UFC 270 against Ciryl Gane in January, Francis Ngannou revealed that he needed to undergo surgery for a torn MCL and a damaged ACL in his right knee. \u2018The Predator\u2019 went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}