Six months after a crushing defeat against Jon Jones, the French fighter of mixed martial arts (MMA) Ciryl Gane, revived on Saturday, September 2, easily overcoming the Moldovan Serghei Spivac, at the Accor Arena in Paris , on the occasion of the second coming to France of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most prestigious organization in MMA.

Favorite of the match, Gane, aka “Bon Gamin”, had to win to stay in the race for the UFC heavyweight belt. Livelier and more powerful than his opponent, ranked 7th in the category, Gane, pushed by the hot public of the Accor Arena, won by KO during the second round.

“I’m happy with my performance,” launched the Vendéen. It is his twelfth victory in fourteen fights, but he remained on an expeditious defeat against the American Jon Jones last March for the heavyweight belt.

“[My goal is to] send a message and the message is: ‘I’m still here, I want to fight for the belt again,'” warned the French MMA standard bearer earlier this week. ranked third in the heavyweight category.

Fiorot ready for the world title

Spectators at the Accor Arena set the bar very high last year by producing an electric atmosphere when the UFC first came to France. But Bercy, once again full to bursting three years after the legalization of the discipline in France, ignited again.

The decibel level hit record highs from the first fight on the preliminary card, knocking at 6:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, the other spearhead of French MMA, Manon Fiorot, alias “The beast” (the beast) hit hard by winning against the American Rose Namajunas. Thanks to this victory, Fiorot should open the doors of a fight for the flyweight belt, currently held by the Mexican Alexa Grasso.

The Frenchwoman, bloodied in the scalp after hitting her opponent’s shoulder, won by unanimous decision against Namajunas, a former double champion of the strawweights and who was fighting her first fight in the upper category. The American, who unsuccessfully tried to take the Frenchwoman to the ground, probably suffered a power deficit against Fiorot, who now has six victories in as many fights in the UFC.

“I beat a former champion, now give me a new champion!” It’s my turn ! “said Manon Fiorot. For her next fight, the 33-year-old Niçoise could therefore challenge the winner of the fight between Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko, who face each other in two weeks for the title.