{"id":716968,"date":"2026-06-05T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:59:08","slug":"will-gane-wrestle-pereira-at-ufc-white-house-fight-wont-be-100-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716968\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Gane wrestle Pereira at UFC White House? Fight won\u2019t be \u2018100% striking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who are hoping for a pure striking match between kickboxers Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane at the UFC White House<\/a> event better temper their expectations.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Gane, who\u2019s ground game has always been his biggest weakness,<\/a> is suddenly talking about utilizing a much-improved wrestling game when facing Pereira on Sunday, June 14th.<\/p>\n

\u201cBon Gamin\u201d discussed the upcoming interim heavyweight title fight on the White House South Lawn with Megan Olivi on Paramount+\u2018s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited,\u201d Gane said. \u201cFirst, because it\u2019s gonna be really historic. This is the first time we\u2019re gonna see an event in a specific space like the White House. And I\u2019m really excited also about the matchup against Pereira. Pereira is a beautiful champion, and he\u2019s a beautiful striker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps too beautiful to strike head to head with? When asked how their kickboxing matched up, Gane suggested this would be no kickboxing match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s gonna be 100% a striking matchup,\u201d he said. \u201cLike, this is MMA, and everybody knows I can do also some wrestling, some takedown, some stuff like that. I can finish the fight also on the ground. So I\u2019m not gonna say 100% this is gonna be a striking matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may not be the best plan to go to the ground with Alex Pereira, who may not be known for his wrestling and jiu jitsu prowess but is a BJJ black belt under Glover Teixeira.<\/a> As for Gane, we saw what Jon Jones did to him<\/a> when they fought in 2023: that bout ended in just over two minutes after Jones dumped Gane onto the canvas and locked in an effortless guillotine choke.<\/p>\n

If Gane does stand and fight, it won\u2019t be stationary right in front of Pereira.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody know already [my style],\u201d he said. \u201cI love to manage my distance. I love to move very well. I love to touch and never get touch. This is my style, the \u2018Bon Gamin\u2019 style, like the people say \u2026 My strategy when I started MMA, because I started very late, I was already, 24 years old. To escape the people who like to wrestle, I started to move very well. This is a type to defend the take down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s why we started to move very well, and step by step, we\u2019re learning the ground game and the wrestling game. But, yeah, at first, it was for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has Ciryl Gane\u2019s ground game progressed<\/a> to a point where he could be a threat to \u201cPoatan\u201d on the ground? We\u2019ll find out Sunday June 14th at the UFC White House event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who are hoping for a pure striking match between kickboxers Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396,125620],"class_list":["post-716968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}