But will Jones be rooting for Gane?
“Maybe, because I think Tom disrespected him a little bit,” Gane told Full Send MMA. “So maybe he’s going to be on my side. Maybe, but yes, he retired, now it’s our turn, and we will see this Saturday. Every time when you have a new challenge, you have a new experience, I got some big losses. We’re talking about Jon Jones. I learned a lot from this fight, really. I fixed a lot of things from this fight. I grew up, my mindset is really different since this fight, and I was already detached from it.”
“For the people who know me, I’m really not focused on the outside, what the people think, the bettors,” Gane continued. “I only focus on myself and on my strengths. If you want to do a real statistic, you must understand all of my career, all of his career, the opponent, how he finished, and day after day I can see the opinion of the people changing a little bit because when you think a little bit more, you see, okay, it’s not going to be an easy fight.”
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