Ciryl Gane doesn’t feel bad for his former teammate Francis Ngannou now that he’s booked himself a pay-per-view main event with a title belt on the line.
On Monday, MMA Fighting confirmed that Gane and Derrick Lewis will meet in the headliner of UFC 265 for an interim heavyweight championship. The event takes place Aug. 7 at the Toyota Center in Houston. The announcement comes a little over three months removed from Ngannou knocking out Stipe Miocic to become the undisputed champion.
While the news of Gane, who defeated Alexander Volkov this past Saturday in the main event of UFC Vegas 30, and Lewis vying for interim gold came as a shock to everyone involved, it wasn’t to Gane or his head coach as he revealed to MMA Fighting on Thursday that plans were in place for the bout earlier than originally thought.