Two former UFC titleholders are coming to the protection of Ciryl Gane amid a cheater label.
Some consider that Gane has bent the principles in his favor in previous fights, significantly with eye pokes and unlawful strikes. “Bon Gamin” got here beneath hearth for his double eye poke foul towards Tom Aspinall, who nonetheless hasn’t fought since Oct. 2025 because of his accidents. Gane was additionally scrutinized for touchdown unlawful elbows to the again of Alex Pereira’s head of their UFC Freedom 250 combat again in June.
Whereas some have known as Gane a cheater, former rivals Dominick Cruz and TJ Dillashaw disagree with that notion. Throughout a current version of the “Love & Warfare Podcast,” Cruz mentioned that in his preventing days, he’d take the blame himself if he was ever acquired poked within the eye (through MMAFighting).
“I all the time mentioned if you happen to can poke me in my f*cking eye, I’m doing one thing fallacious,” Cruz mentioned. “You’ll be able to punch me in my head. Attempting to my head is so f*cking exhausting, if you happen to can poke me within the eye, that’s my downside, so we agree on that and I feel that’s why he’s not a cheater.”
Dillashaw agreed with Cruz, saying that he thinks individuals have the fallacious concept about Gane over his unintended fouls.
“I don’t suppose he’s [a cheater],” Dillashaw mentioned. “It’s gotten blown out of the water because the Pereira combat. Clearly, everybody’s a Pereira fan and so they needed him to win and so they wish to name the unlawful blows. He wasn’t going for it on goal and Pereira’s transferring his head as he’s hitting these. I feel Herb Dean’s sadly catching plenty of flack as properly, too.”
Gane was promoted because the UFC heavyweight champion because of Aspinall remaining sidelined. He’ll put his gold at stake towards Josh Hokit within the UFC 334 essential occasion on Nov. 14 in New York Metropolis.
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