Who will stop Cyril Gane?
Just three years after starting MMA, the Frenchman (30) triumphed over a UFC heavyweight benchmark on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Surinamese Jairzinho Rozenstruik, world n ° 4, logically lost on a unanimous decision of the judges (three times 50-45) at the end of the five rounds of five minutes.
Still undefeated in eight MMA fights (including three victories by KO), the member of the MMA Factory, in Paris, has a fifth success in the UFC, the queen division of this sport.
🔥🇫🇷 HE DID IT !!
💥 What a perf 'of @ciryl_gane who defeats Rozenstruik and wins by unanimous decision of the judges ... The Frenchman, who will have mastered his fight from A to Z, continues his meteoric rise to the queen of categories!
💪 Well done kid! #RMCUFC pic.twitter.com/88gOLg47i2
- RMC Sport Combat (@RMCSportCombat) February 28, 2021
It is quite simply the best series underway among the heavyweights, ahead of other figures in the discipline: Derrick Lewis, Francis Ngannou and Marcin Tybura (all four wins in a row).
"I want people to take me seriously"
Yet dominating thanks to his versatility, both on the ground and in his game of fists and feet, the former Muay Thai champion (1.98 m, 112 kg) did not appear satisfied.
"From the moment when I do not finish my fights before the end
(Editor's note: a KO offers 50,000 dollars, or 41,500 euros more to the winner)
, I have a little bitter taste in my mouth. he admits.
MMA purists will say I won 5 rounds to 0, but still am a little frustrated.
"
😍 Friends what a night!
🇫🇷 We will have had a good time before the match and we will have vibrated until the end of the night with the victory of @ciryl_gane ...
What more could you ask for?
👏 @ThomasDesson @mehdibenlakhdar @SamyrHamoudi #RMCUFC pic.twitter.com/9I7ImdPRJr
- RMC Sport Combat (@RMCSportCombat) February 28, 2021
Cyril Gane was also expecting stronger opposition.
“I was surprised by his wait-and-see attitude.
Normally, he touches you once or twice and it's over, you fall.
”An ease in a major fight which places the native of La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) in a new dimension.
"I'm getting into the little papers now, I want people to take me seriously, to know I'm ready," he says.
If you want me to fight for the title, let's go.
I proved that I could do a 5 x 5 minutes without any problem, I could have started again for 5 rounds.
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Live on American television, the Frenchie even launched a message to all the spectators: “If you want to bet on me, I'm here.
Granted, I don't have a lot of experience.
But if you need a guy for a fight, I'm your man!
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