The UFC 265 event will take place on August 7 at Toyota Center in Houston. The announcement came after more than three months since the nunnou defeated Stipe Miocic to become the defending champion of the weight class.
While the news of Gane and Lewis will compete for the Interim belt as a shock to everyone, Gane and the coach of this fist know in advance this information and not surprised.
“We have known this before the match took place. UFC sent information to my Fernand Lopez coach and I was also known soon after.” – Gane told MMA Fighting.
Gane has achieved 9 wins in his professional career, including 6 consecutive wins at UFC to date. Gane has won the names like Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Junior Dos Santos and Tanner Boser. Ciryl Gane recently defeated Alexander Volkov very convincingly at UFC Vegas 30, showing comprehensive technical style, technical style and adaptability to all opponents.
When the official news about UFC will take place a temporary championship match, Gane was very excited about this opportunity.
“It was wonderful, I was really happy, this has a great significance for me. I am still young, I have just participated in MMA for 3 years and had the opportunity to compete for belt. I was a bit surprised because I thought that Francis would fight Derrick Lewis but Francis said he was not ready to protect the belt in August so they chose me.” – Gane said.
For his opponent Lewis, Gane devotes all respect to the ability and power of Lewis.
“This Lewis guy is very dangerous, we all know that. Just eat a blow from Lewis and you will absorb immediately, very dangerous, I think keeping the distance with him.” – Gane said.
“I will put pressure on Lewis the same way I did with Volkov. I will drown Lewis into the deep water, put a lot of pressure with this punch.”
As for the Derrick Lewis, this fighter also has 4 consecutive wins in the Heavyweight weight class. In the last upper station, Lewis had a different talent of the weight class, Curtis Blaydes in the second half.