It was finished with a borderline call on a potentially illegal strike, but there’s no denying Ciryl Gane earned the biggest victory of his career Saturday night with a second-round finish of former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos. . Gane (7-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) dominated the bout with the down trending Dos Santos (21-9 MMA, 15-8 UFC) from the outset before earning the victory by TKO at 2:34 of the second round in a main card bout at UFC 256 . The final blow, during a sequence in which Dos Santos appeared a shot or two away from being finished, was an elbow that struck Dos Santos near the back of the head as he was turning away. Gane implemented a game plan early of throwing leg kicks, landing over and over to Dos Santos’ lead leg at varying velocities and angles
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