Francis Ngannou (16-3 MMA, 11-2 UFC) is currently a heavy champion while Ciryl Gane (10-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) is holding the Interim belt. The match between Francis Ngannou and Ciryl Gane agreed on heavy belts that will take place at the UFC 270 event on January 22, 2022 at Honda Center Stadium in Anaheim, California.
Practicing with world -class talents before the match seems to be the key to the success of the number one punchers. To confront Ciryl Gane, the nunnou's team invited one of the best Kickboxing boxers on the planet to practice with the nunnou.
Just a few days ago, the head coach Eric Nicksick of the MMA Xtreme Couture organization revealed on his Instagram page that the world heavy champion of the Glory Kickboxing Rico VerhoEven was practicing with the nunnou to help this puncher beat Ciryl Gane.
Earlier, Puncher Rico Verhoeven was scheduled to protect the belt against UFC Alistair Overeem on the Kickboxing floor last month at Glory Collision 3, but due to the feet Overeem encountered, the match had to cancel. Instead, Verhoeven met an opponent to replace Jamal Ben Saddik and won TKO in the fourth half and successfully defended the title of heavy championship.
Ciryl Gane is a former Muay Thai champion with unbeaten achievements. In his 10 MMA matches, Gane showed the style of competition, kicks, punches, pillows, elbows bearing Muay Thai.
For many viewers, Muay Thai and Kickboxing have quite similar attacks that confuse this subject, besides many techniques and teaching methods in Muay Thai and Kickboxing also have many things in common. Technically and the style of competition, despite the similarities between both subjects, but the way and goals in each martial arts are completely different.
In order to confront the opponent with a slightly way of playing Muay Thai, practicing with a Kickboxing champion seems to be a wise strategic country of Francis Ngannou.