FURY PLANS GO DOWN THE PAN

This savage knockdown and a hugely contested decision leaves the Gypsy King's hopes in the balance

- MARTIN DOMIN

FOR the four seconds Tyson Fury lay prone on the canvas, his senses scrambled, gone was his undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

Gone too a £75million pay day - and the same again for a rematch courtesy of his new friends in Saudi Arabia. And in its place an embarrassing moral defeat by a man making his pro boxing debut at the age of 37.

Francis Ngannou celebrated the third-round knockdown as if he had already won - and he is not short of collaborators.

The former UFC heavyweight champion boxed brilliantly to take advantage of Fury's worst display since he scraped past John McDermott 14 years ago.

Thanks to a narrow win on points the giant Brit was as lucky to escape with his unbeaten record intact in oil-rich Riyadh as he was that night in Essex.