{"id":390176,"date":"2021-07-15T06:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=390176"},"modified":"2021-07-15T06:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:57:58","slug":"derrick-lewis-calls-ciryl-gane-a-boring-fighter-ahead-of-ufc-265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/derrick-lewis-calls-ciryl-gane-a-boring-fighter-ahead-of-ufc-265\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis calls Ciryl Gane a &#8220;boring&#8221; fighter ahead of UFC 265"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight title contender Derrick Lewis called his upcoming opponent Ciryl Gane a &#8220;boring&#8221; fighter ahead of their UFC 265 title fight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/derrick-lewis-and-ciryl-gane-react-after-being-booked-in-interim-heavyweight-title-fight-at-ufc-265\/\">Lewis and Gane meet in the main event of UFC 265<\/a>, which is scheduled to take place on August 7 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and the interim heavyweight strap will be on the line when &#8220;The Black Beast&#8221; and &#8220;Bon Gamin&#8221; throw down. While Lewis was originally set to take on UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou for the undisputed belt, things changed and he is now set to take on Gane for the interim belt instead.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters ahead of UFC 265, Lewis was asked about Gane. While Lewis believes he&#8217;s a smart fighter, the Texas native also believes that Gane is &#8220;boring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t care who it was. Ciryl Gane, he\u2019s a good opponent, he\u2019s dangerous. He\u2019s boring most of the time, but he\u2019s smart. He\u2019s a smart fighter, so it\u2019s still gonna be a fun fight with me. It doesn\u2019t matter if he\u2019s gonna try and stay away and do all these little fancy kicks and stuff like that, but I\u2019m still gonna have my moment in the fight,&#8221; Lewis said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/07\/ufc-news-derrick-lewis-ok-fighting-ciryl-gane-instead-francis-ngannou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As far as switching opponents and going from Ngannou to Gane, Lewis &#8212; who holds a previous win over &#8220;The Predator&#8221; &#8212; implied that the money was similar for either fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t care. They told me what I\u2019m getting paid if I\u2019m fighting Francis, and they told me what I\u2019m going to be paid if I fight Ciryl, so it doesn\u2019t matter to me, so I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m still getting paid the same like I was getting paid to fight Francis,&#8221; Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Derrick Lewis that Ciryl Gane is a &#8220;boring&#8221; fighter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight title contender Derrick Lewis called his upcoming opponent Ciryl Gane a &#8220;boring&#8221; fighter ahead of their UFC 265 title fight. Lewis and Gane meet in the main event of UFC 265, which is scheduled to take place on August 7 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and the interim heavyweight strap will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":275555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[58122,10239,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derrick Lewis calls Ciryl Gane a &quot;boring&quot; fighter ahead of UFC 265 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC heavyweight title contender Derrick Lewis called his upcoming opponent Ciryl Gane a &quot;boring&quot; fighter ahead of their UFC 265 title fight.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/derrick-lewis-calls-ciryl-gane-a-boring-fighter-ahead-of-ufc-265\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Derrick Lewis calls Ciryl Gane a &quot;boring&quot; 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