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This January 23 takes place the most anticipated MMA fight of the year. It pits Ciryl Gane against the reigning heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou. A major event for French sport, since the challenger Ciryl Gane is French and the reigning champion, Cameroonian Francis Ngannou, was trained at the same club as him, the MMA Factory in Paris.
With this confrontation, French MMA has therefore risen to the highest peak in the discipline, even though the sport has only been legal for two years in France. In the video at the top of this article, our journalist Guillaume Gendron deciphers this paradox. Between French know-how and business, this fight made in France is far from being due to chance.