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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Pattle

How Jon Jones made Tom Aspinall vs Ciryl Gane the highest-pressure fight in the UFC

What’s the French for “third time’s the charm”? For full transparency, this is a rhetorical question that will be answered in the final paragraph of this article, but the saying must have been uttered to Ciryl Gane at least once in the build-up to UFC 321.

The thing Gane pines for most in his sporting life will, for the third time, be within his grasp on Saturday, kept somewhere safe inside Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Arena: the undisputed heavyweight title.

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