{"id":208,"date":"2021-08-08T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T05:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=134386"},"modified":"2021-08-08T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T05:59:44","slug":"ufc-265-ciryl-gane-wins-the-interim-ufc-heavyweight-championship-defeating-derrick-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/ufc-265-ciryl-gane-wins-the-interim-ufc-heavyweight-championship-defeating-derrick-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 265: Ciryl Gane wins the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship defeating Derrick Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The main event was set up in Houston for the hometown hero Derrick Lewis who took on the undefeated Ciryl Gane of France in the title fight for the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship in a 5 round bout. The French fighter fought effectively against Lewis in the first round with a flurry of kicks. Lewis was unable to respond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frustration built in quickly for the hometown hero as midway through the second round he was seen more aggressive to land shots. Gane was as cool as ever and controlled the action while landing knee shots until they were separated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gane started the third round with precise offensive attacks with kicks to the leg and huge right hands to the head of Lewis. Lewis had no response to the attack having 2 more minutes to survive the round. Gane wasn\u2019t having any of it and unloaded punches on the top mount. The referee stepped in to end the fight in the third round by TKO.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ANDNEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ANDNEW<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France's <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciryl_gane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ciryl_Gane<\/a> is your new interim HW champ!<\/p>\n<p> [ B2YB <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptocom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CryptoCom<\/a> ] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PWqZVO3fot\">pic.twitter.com\/PWqZVO3fot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1424234303622418433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The co-main event was contested between the Brazilian icon Jose Aldo against world number 9 Pedro Munhoz in the men\u2019s bantamweight division. Munhoz was the earlier attacker in the opening round but Aldo had an answer with a solid show in defence and sharp counters. Moving into the second round both the competitors were on the attack giving each other no chance of a breather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Brazilian opened the third round going quickly back to where he left off in round 2. Aldo managed to tag Munhoz with hard shots straight down the stretch. The match ended and moved to the judge\u2019s scorecard giving Jose Aldo the win by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE KING OF RIO \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josealdojunior?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoseAldoJunior<\/a> locks in his 30th professional win inside the Octagon tonight! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC265?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC265<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ryd3rzdnHe\">pic.twitter.com\/Ryd3rzdnHe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1424222174827712516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alonzo Menifield faced Ed Herman in the preliminary round. A consistent series of leg kicks and jabs by Menifield kept Herman rooted to his blocks all through the entire first round by not permitting his rival to draw himself near enough to grapple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herman saw an opportunity to flip the fight score in his favour as the start of the second round saw Menifield slip down to the canvas. He quickly back to his feet and recovered by unloading power shots against the cage. Herman didn\u2019t show any signs of slowing down the end of the fight in the third round and being declared the winner by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ciryl Gane has defeated Derrick Lewis to win the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship as he keeps his undefeated streak of ten wins and zero losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2246,776],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}