Jon Jones is considered by many to be the greatest MMA fighter of all time. His victory over Ciryl Gane to become the heavyweight champion has only lent further credence to this claim. There is an old saying in sports that there is no shame in losing to a better man, and Jones was clearly the better man that night, especially in the wrestling department.

Gane is preparing to take on Moldovan UFC heavyweight Sergey Spivak at UFC Fight Night Paris tomorrow. And his coach has made a surprising revelation about the former interim champion’s training in an interview. He also revealed the aftermath of the Jones loss and what they learned from it.

Coach reveals how much Cyril Gane is wrestling in camp ahead of UFC Fight Night Paris

Speaking to ‘MMA Junkie’, Fernand Lopez stated that they had little to no wrestling for Gane in his camp for the Sivak fight. He felt they had already worked on the Frenchman’s wrestling before.

“The truth is that, we, I’m not even sure that we have had more wrestling training in this Camp cuz we are already we have done that already very long time training on wrestling. What they [people] don’t know is that the people tend to judge someone in a fight,” he said.

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He also explained why he thinks criticism of ‘Bon Gamin’s wrestling abilities (or lack thereof) is unwarranted. He said that Gane has just not had a good wrestling performance so far, but that does not take away from his ability to wrestle well.

“Like if you take two good wrestler, guy coming from a freestyle wrestling and they meet in the gold medal in Olympics and then one of comes, shoot the take down, good timing, put him on the back, win in  30 second, will you say that the other guys sucks in wrestling. No, it’s just about timing about momentum, about the day and so far we didn’t have a good day on the wrestling Department,” Lopez told the interviewer.

Cyril Gane’s coach talks about loss against Jon Jones

Lopez also revealed that Gane had taken the Jon Jones loss hard. He also expressed that he did not actually know what went wrong in the fight against Jones, and was still trying to understand it.

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“That [loss to Jon Jones] was painful for Cyril… because that was the first real loss that he had. He was blaming himself too much. The mindset was good, he was nervous. I don’t really know what happened and uh so we trying to figure it out,” he said.

Gane may have had a disappointing performance against Jones in the fight. But, it is important he and his team figure out what went wrong and rectify it pretty soon. Because in a sparse heavyweight division after Francis Ngannou‘s departure, it might not be long before Gane gets another shot at the heavyweight crown.

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