France’s Ciryl Gane pulled off a jolting knockout win over Australian Tai Tuivasa before a home group at the Accor Arena on the banks of the River Seine in the advancement’s most memorable significant occasion in the country since the game was sanctioned there in 2020.
Prodded on by a robust first-round version of “La Marseillaise”, the French public hymn, the two heavyweights put on an outbuilding burner of a battle in the headliner that made the huge delay for the game’s guideline worth the effort for the French fans.
Australian Tuivasa sent Gane colliding with the material with a demolition hammer right hand in the subsequent round, however Gane thundered back with a progression of fierce hits to the body that nearly finished the fight.
Two minutes into the third Gane paralyzed Tuivasa with a kick to the head, and however the teak-extreme Aussie at first would not go down, Gane heaped on the pressure.
A right uppercut denoted the start of the end, and Gane followed his man down, landing deafening blows with two hands to protect the KO with 37 seconds left in the edge.
“On the off chance that anybody felt a little uncertain about how great the French group are, there are no more questions any longer,” Gane said prior to saying thanks to them over and over and requiring a title shot.
In the co-headliner, previous middleweight champion Robert Whittaker put on a smooth striking show to out-point Marvin Vettori that might place him in dispute for one more shot at the belt, notwithstanding losing a title battle to current hero Israel Adesanya back in February.
With the red, white and blue of the French banner projected on the octagon floor between sessions, the six-battle primary card got having a hard time for the lively home fans as English warrior Nathaniel Wood crushed Frenchman Charles Jourdain by consistent choice.
Parisian William Gomis before long gave them something to cheer, as he got away from a perilous late accommodation endeavor from Jarno Errens under the steady gaze of winning on the adjudicators’ scorecards.
“I heard the group and I thought no, I can’t surrender now — I’d prefer kick the bucket in here than surrender. I will bite the dust as opposed to surrender,” an euphoric Gomis said in a post-battle interview as the fans thundered their endorsement.