Doubt it. Gane is not only bad on the ground he performed horribly that fight. Assuming Tuivasa doesn't get stage fright and shit his pants he does better than Gane. Gane was starstruck or something that fight. That was the only 1st round finish Jones has had in the last 13 years and only his 2nd finish overall in the same span of time outside of the corpse of Stipe.
Gane isn't bad on the ground. He only had 3 years of MMA experience prior to fighting Jon Jones and 7 years of combat martial arts total. He started Muay thai in 2014 and then MMA in 2018 and fought jones in 2021. With only 7 years of combat experience, he was able to draw Tom in the first round despite Tom training BJJ since he was a little kid. Gane is arguably one of the biggest talents in MMA alongside with Joshua Van.
With less martial arts experience than Alex Pereira, he knocked him out and mixed the martial arts better than Pereira did.
Ngannou was on one knee and still handed Gane an L idk why people keep tryna use that fight as a flex for Gane. And itās not like he was fr whooping Toms ass either. He only really whooped Alex
Up by actually three strikes on paper but half of toms strikes hit air or landed on ganes guard. Many breakdowns of this fight. Gane was whooping that ass
Gane has evolved a LOT since those days, and especially since the Jones fight. This is a different fighter altogether, and probably what everyone thought Ngannou was going to face. This Gane is extremely dangerous, and can cheat at will
Watch how he responds to the follow up shots then. He's clearly not as hurt as people think because he's able to effectively block and evade every shot get the clinch and get to his feet. That is not what would happen if he was rocked
Gane is top 3 strikers in ufc history. Argue with a wall. He turned Francis āI robbed Ciryl Ganeā Ngannou into a wrestler, outstruck and put Alex ā2 division glory championā Pereira to sleep, and outstruck Tom āFans used to think I was the greatest fighter in historyā aspinall.
Only lost to motivated jon Jones. For those that don't know there is a huge difference between motivated Jon Jones and normal Jon Jones. Motivated Jon Jones was rarely seen in most of his ufc career. Jon knew he had to lock in to beat gane.
Volkov is a decent fighter who may never get a single title shot. The Greatest Striker Of All Time doesn't put up that performance against that guy.
Gane would probably win the trilogy, but that's not the point. Gane is an inconsistent choke artist who has put up bad performances and made stupid mistakes in fights he should have dominated given his talent.
gane destroys dc is objectively false, he simply doesnāt have the grappling to nullify dcās wrestling. francis took him down and held him dc would sub him.
Your hyperbole will annoy people but it is true that Cormier had overrated finishing ability on the ground. I think he can impose his grappling better than Gane can keep the fight standing so I would have to choose Cormier to win a fight but if Gane had spent more of his career working with Riner and a few other grapplers I would honestly favour him in a fight.
Francis had 1 knee and still beat him lol. Aspinall fight was close and we were robbed of seeing its conclusion by notorious cheater Gane knucklefucking his eye sockets.
Gane is maybe in the top 3 heavyweight strikers oat but saying in "UFC history" is fucking nuts. He isnt even a top 3 CURRENT striker in the promotion.
I think you could make a case for anyone you just named being above Gane, I would also add Prates to that list, Ruffy is also excellent and seems to still be improving
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u/Fun_Mortgage_4033 3h ago
If he won that fight he woulda been fighting Jones for the title btw
We coulda had the craziest timeline