France's Ciryl Gane pulled off an electrifying knockout win over Australian Tai Tuivasa in front of a home crowd at the Accor Arena on the banks of the River Seine in the promotion's first major event in the country since the sport was legalised there in 2020.
Spurred on by a lusty first-round rendition of "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, the two heavyweights put on a barn-burner of a fight in the main event that made the long wait for the sport's regulation worth it for the French fans.
Australian Tuivasa sent Gane crashing to the canvas with a sledgehammer right hand in the second round, but Gane roared back with a series of brutal blows to the body that almost ended the fight.
