December 1, 2024 5:30 pm ET
Ciryl Gane admits he wasn’t himself when he fought Jon Jones final March for the vacant UFC heavyweight title.
The one time Gane (12-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) has been completed in his professional profession was in opposition to Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC). Gane tapped from a guillotine choke simply over two minutes into the battle.
“After I look again at it, it was apparent that I used to be not there,” Gane stated in French on “UFC 310 Countdown.” “It represented precisely how I felt on the day of the battle. It was a complete misunderstanding of what was occurring.
“I don’t acknowledge myself there. It’s one thing I’ve by no means completed in my life. I’ve by no means fought that approach earlier than. My distance administration, my motion, the alertness that I like to indicate – I had none of that.”
It’s not a knock on one’s resume to misplaced to the consensus GOAT of the game. Jones has hung losses on many nice fighters through the years and has typically made it look simple. However for Gane, he feels upset that he didn’t put forth his finest effort within the greatest second of his profession. Gane rebounded nicely in his subsequent look six months later, the place he stopped Serghei Spivac within the second spherical to get again on monitor.
The French heavyweight returns to motion at UFC 310 to tackle Alexander Volkov. Gane is aware of it’s one other alternative to show he belongs within the title dialog. With the teachings discovered from his battle in opposition to Jones, Gane believes he’s a renewed fighter targeted on the objective of turning into champion.
“Trying again, I feel that this expertise might have been useful,” Gane stated. “For me personally, it helped me to refocus on myself. It gave me a spirit of revenge, a aggressive spirit.”
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