Win culminated party with knockout over Spivac
The UFC lived a party on its second visit to the capital of France.
With a dominating performance from former interim heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane in the main event, the local fighters won four of the five fights on the main card at the Accor Arena in Paris.
It took Cyryl Gane just two rounds to knock out the dangerous Serghei Spivac after overwhelming him with punches throughout the fight.
The Frenchman seized the initiative and never gave the ‘Polar Bear’ a chance to get comfortable inside the Octagon, outscoring him in total punches 110 to 11, including 109 significant strikes.
With this victory, Ciryl Gane improved his record to 12-2 and returned to normal after losing a first-round submission to Jon Jones in his second attempt to claim the outright heavyweight title.
For his part, Serghei Spivac stalled at 16-4 and saw the end of a three-fight win streak, all by completion over Greg Hardy, Augusto Sakai and Lewis.
In the co-main event, her compatriot Manon Florot defeated former strawweight champion Rose Namajunas, making her flyweight debut, by unanimous decision.
Florot overcame a nasty cut to the head to dominate Namajunas en route to being scored 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28.
On the remainder of the UFC Paris main card, Benoit Saint-Denis defeated Thiago Moisés via second-round knockout in a lightweight bout; Volkan Oezdemir submitted a first-round choke from behind to light heavyweight Bogdan Guskov; In a local fight, William Gomis controversially defeated Yanis Ghemmouri by technical knockout in the third round after Ghemmouri was left with a kick below the belt, however, the referee asked him to continue and before his refusal, the fight was arrested. featherweight to beat Gomis; and in the first fight Morgan Charrier knocked out Italian Manolo Zecchini also at featherweight.
On the undercard, Taylor Lapiluos defeated Caolan Loughran via unanimous decision; Ange Loosa outpointed Rhys McKee also by unanimous decision; Nora Cornolle defeated the Panamanian Joselyne Edwards in the same way; Farid Basharat submitted Kleydson Rodrigues in a round; and Jacqueline Cavalcanti defeated Zarah Fairn.