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Events · UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane · Francis Ngannou vs Ciryl Gane
From the tape · 22 Jan 2022

Francis Ngannou vs Ciryl Gane

UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Francis Ngannou beat Ciryl Gane

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

FN
Red corner FrancisNgannou“The Predator”Xtreme Couture · Paris
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CirylGane“Bon Gamin”MMA Factory · Paris
Heavyweight Title5 rounds22 Jan 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Ngannou’s 11 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
17-3
Record
14-2
35
Age
−4 yr31
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
+2″83″
Reach
81″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+613
UFC bouts
7
+43%11/11100% of wins
Finishes
4/757% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
MMA Factory
Paris
From
Paris
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Francis Ngannou12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 18BODY67%8 of 11LEGS8%1 of 2
Ciryl Gane15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 7BODY60%9 of 11LEGS13%2 of 2
12 of 31
Sig.
strikes
15 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:40
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ngannou firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Francis Ngannou10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 11BODY40%4 of 10LEGS50%5 of 6
Ciryl Gane19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 11BODY21%4 of 10LEGS58%11 of 12
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
19 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ngannou firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attempt
Francis Ngannou9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 13BODY56%5 of 6LEGS11%1 of 1
Ciryl Gane6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 4BODY17%1 of 2LEGS50%3 of 3
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
6 of 9
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
1:07
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ngannou firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Francis Ngannou7 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY57%4 of 4LEGS43%3 of 3
Ciryl Gane16 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 3BODY19%3 of 3LEGS69%11 of 11
7 of 13
Sig.
strikes
16 of 17
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:57
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ngannou firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 55:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Francis Ngannou5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 8BODY0%0 of 2LEGS60%3 of 3
Ciryl Gane7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 7BODY43%3 of 3LEGS14%1 of 2
5 of 13
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:44
Control
0:39
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ngannou firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Francis NgannouCiryl Gane
Official totals — Francis Ngannou first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide48–47

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 23 scored, Francis Ngannou first · unofficial

Dan Urban Couchside Judges49–46
Phil Murphy ESPN49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Combat Press.com49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47
Robert Sargent MMARising.com48–47
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com48–47
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Jillian DeCoursey48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily48–47
Scott Fontana New York Post47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Ngannou · 47%48-47 Gane · 37%49-46 Ngannou · 10%49-46 Gane · 2%

1,401 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Francis Ngannou

0.76takedowns / 15 min
0.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.68 / 15m
1.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.72 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
25%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Ciryl Gane

0.68takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Francis Ngannou↓ −20.5pp
open 63.5%close 42.9%
Ciryl Gane↑ +20.5pp
open 36.5%close 57.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Francis Ngannou opened at 63.5% and closed at 42.9% (−20.5pp), with Ciryl Gane moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Francis Ngannou-19012463.5%42.9%−20.5pp
Ciryl Gane165-14636.5%57.1%+20.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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