Ciryl Gane quickly rose through the ranks in the heavyweight division upon his professional debut. Even before he was signed to the UFC in the summer of 2019, he already had a championship belt on his mantle at home.
In only his second professional MMA appearance, Gane secured the TKO Heavyweight Championship. Ciryl Gane’s meteoric rise only continued from there. By August of 2019, he’d find himself on the UFC’s active roster and the ascent kept going.
Due to a rash of cancellations to planned fights caused by both the COVID-19 crisis, opponent withdrawals and, in the case of Ante Delija, contractual issues with the Professional Fighters League, it took Gane until December of 2020 to even so much as compete again, but on Dec.