On March 8, in the main event of Boxing Night in Riyadh, Joshua knocked out Ngannou in the second round.
"I'm not impressed as I knew it was going to end like this. Francis has only had one fight and here he comes out against a two-time world champion. So it was supposed to go like this. I expected this outcome. I'm not impressed. Joshua did what he had to do.
I think Ngannou could have been finished like that by a lot of top heavyweights. It was a brilliant knockout, but Francis had little chance at this level," Boixng News 24/7 quoted the Croatian as saying.