Cyril Gane won't last 2 minutes in the rematch

[Portland8242]

Nah man, no way in hell will anything be different. Every rematch is the same.

More often than not rematches look way different. Especially in recent memory.

Even stylistic nightmares like Adesanya vs Whittaker a rematch can turn into a close fight with the 1st fight being a blatant outclassing.

 

[Captain Herb]

didn’t he make tom stubble with a shot like a second before the eye poke?

It's a fight dude. I'm sure Tom is perfectly willing to take one to give his own. Was Tom hurt? No, Tom was not hurt by any of that.

 

[mkess101]

I actually agree for the most part that Tom is not in the wrong for not wantin to continue. But the optics are just so horrible for combat sports.

compare it to Vitali Klitschko with his eye falling off freaking out when the doc stopped it in the corner when he fought Lennox, it's just not good.

There's such a massive difference in fighting through adversity from your opponent legally busting you up though.

Gane was warned twice prior to gouging his eyes. Expecting a guy to continue when his opponent just ignores the ref's warnings and keeps going for the eyes...it's just a completely different scenario than legal damage.

 

[prime_lobov]

Gane will open the rematch with a massive nut shot, causing Tom to quit instantly. For a week after the fight Tom will post daily hour-long videos of his swollen ballsack, become rich off Onlyfans, and retire.

 

[Alpha_T83]

My prediction for the rematch is that Cyril Gane loses 2 points for another eye poke and then gets finished.

His strategy was pretty clear: shove the hand in Tom's face to manage distance and prevent takedown entries, and if an eye poke happens it's a bonus.

In the rematch, I think he will be immediately warned not to extend his fingers like that. But it's how he fights, so he will do it on instinct. Eventually he will poke Tom again, and he will lose a point. Then he will continue sticking his open palm out, and the ref will take another point before the 2nd eye poke (refusing to follow the refs instructions and stop extending his fingers towards Tom).

At that point Gane's defense will be down, and Tom will swarm him.

 

[FriskyRandy]

I have a weird feeling that the first fight will be a wake up call for Tom.
I think he steam rolls Gane in the second.
Hope we dont have to wait too long to see the rematch.

 

[RockyLockridge]

"Mouth open gasping for air".
"Face covered in strawberries."

You clowns might actually believe this shit is what's really funny.

A bloody nose and something other than Aspinall winning inside 2 minutes and you dorks fall all over yourselves to invent this stupidity. Pretty funny.

its kinda just a fact anyone who watched the fight saw it.

his mouth was open and he was breathing very heavy. His face was also bloodied.

which part of that can even reasonably be denied?

 

[flektarn]

I have a weird feeling that the first fight will be a wake up call for Tom.
I think he steam rolls Gane in the second.
Hope we dont have to wait too long to see the rematch.

he has a bit of footage to work with. And if everyone thinks Gane was handedly winning a couple minutes of one round, then we could say Tom has more to gain from it than Cyril.

 

[RockyLockridge]

I have a weird feeling that the first fight will be a wake up call for Tom.
I think he steam rolls Gane in the second.
Hope we dont have to wait too long to see the rematch.

In order for tom to win a rematch, he needs time.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Nah man, no way in hell will anything be different. Every rematch is the same.

the only rematch i can recall that was exactly the same was aldo vs max

 

[mkess101]

its kinda just a fact anyone who watched the fight saw it.

his mouth was open and he was breathing very heavy. His face was also bloodied.

which part of that can even reasonably be denied?

If you watch his other fights--even ones he won quickly--his mouth and breathing looks the same. It's an invented narrative that he was gassed. You're free to believe what you want but I'm not your guy to be gaslit into buying it too.

He definitely had a bloody nose. If that wins a fight after 4 minutes in your eyes, then absolutely you should believe it was practically over. I've seen enough bloody noses in sparring and in fights to know they don't matter much unless the nose is broken. But that's me. You should believe what you want of course.

 

[FriskyRandy]

the only rematch i can recall that was exactly the same was aldo vs max

Tito and Ken was decently similar 3 times. Last two more than the first.

 

[Alpha_T83]

its kinda just a fact anyone who watched the fight saw it.

his mouth was open and he was breathing very heavy. His face was also bloodied.

which part of that can even reasonably be denied?

I can understand why people that wanted Tom to lose are frustrated. It certainly wasn't a good visual for Tom.

While I think the fight was far from over, it definitely looked like Tom's gas tank was going to be tested for the first time. Now Tom's team gets a long time to study what went wrong and make adjustments, and he will probably do much better in the rematch.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Listen, Tom was hailed as the messiah that was going to finish Gane and then go on this metoric rise to the top of the HW division. Instead he plodded around and got pieced up and bloodied and then received the worst eye poke ever and could not continue. He is not the great fighter than everyone makes him out to be.

Hes already been at the top of the HW division for years. There was no "rise" to be had, he was at a point of running out of challengers.

Saying he "Plodded around" and got "pieced up" is a pretty unfair assessment of things too. Even in losing he was faster and more mobile than the majority of HWs in history, he was just going up against the most technically skilled and elusive HW striker ever. Plus contrary to the narrative being pushed, in reality he only got outlanded by 3 strikes.

I totally agree that people had been getting carried away acting like hes some superhuman next generation HW GOAT contender though.

 

[Captain Herb]

He definitely had a bloody nose. If that wins a fight after 4 minutes in your eyes, then absolutely you should believe it was practically over. I've seen enough bloody noses in sparring and in fights to know they don't matter much unless the nose is broken. But that's me. You should believe what you want of course.

Cyril's one best punch gave Tom a bloody nose. That's not good for Cyril. I believe Tom can afford to be even more aggressive which likely would end up with Gane taking some big shots or a clinch where he could be tripped. I think Tom should double down on his aggressive style and do what he does best. Anything else is playing in to Cyril's game.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

In order for tom to win a rematch, he needs time.

Well obviously, he is 100% blind it was the worst eye poke of all time he needs 30 months to recover

 

[volodya]

He might eye poke him earlier. It's possible.

It is kinda funny...WTF is Aspirin gonna do to Bones if Gane treats him like this?

 

[xhaydenx]

It will be a miracle if Tom the Pom even survives to the 2nd round without Bon Pokin' KOing him again.

 

[JBJ was here]

I think this is pretty likely. Before the first fight, I thought there was a pretty good possibility of Tom taking a round to feel things out; there's only so much you can learn watching tape and Gane was a different enough fighter from anyone Aspinall had fought before that taking a round to test things and then making adjustments with his corner before going aggressive made a lot of sense. I think that's what happened in their fight and Gane showed that his technique holds up against gear 2-or 3 Tom on the feet but didn't show anything new and Aspinall looked a bit awkward and uncomfortable executing that game plan for most of the first round, so I would be surprised to see more feeling out from him next time around. Maybe Gane has something new to offer--I doubt it, because that's pretty much the antithesis of who Gane is as a fighter, but you never know--but if so Aspinall isn't going to see it until he moves into high gear.

I'd be surprised if Tom doesn't show off a seriously aggressive attack within the first minute of the rematch. I like Gane's chances of surviving Aspinall's first couple of aggressive attacks and taking a decision better than I did for the first fight, but I think a first round finish by Tom is also more likely than it was the first time around due to a significantly lower chance of him taking his time.

 

[RockyLockridge]

If you watch his other fights--even ones he won quickly--his mouth and breathing looks the same. It's an invented narrative that he was gassed. You're free to believe what you want but I'm not your guy to be gaslit into buying it too

I never said he was gassed said his mouth was open and he was breathing heavy.

Him being gassed is an assumption.

His mouth being open and him breathing heavily are observations that anyone who watched that fight saw.