Former interim UFC heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane delivered a major statement at UFC Paris a few weeks back when he dispatched Serghei Spivac with a thunderous second-round knockout on home soil.
The Frenchman’s celebrations were short-lived, however, as he quickly found out that his home in Paris had been invaded and six figures’ worth of valuables stolen.
UFC Heavyweight Ciryl Gane’s House Was Robbed… While He Was In the Octagon
Gane recounted the incident on The MMA Hour. “It’s not only my country, I suppose you have this everywhere the world, but yeah, in my country, unfortunately, when you are a little bit famous now — you see MMA in France, everybody talks about that, and everybody can see how much I can win. So yeah, he did a great job because he waited [until my] fight, the last fight..
He waited the night and he went out [to my] home and he did some bulls***.” When Ariel Helwani asked how much was stolen, Gane simply replied:
“Too much, my man. I was not focused [on how much]. Too much.” Gane also discussed the traumatizing effects of the break-in on his family.
“My wife saw that at first, because he did it around 8 p.m. [right before the fight], and so she went to the babysitter, she dropped the girls [off] and she came back, and when she came back she found all of the [chaos] at the home.
But she keep that [to herself], and after, when we went to bed after the fight, she told me unfortunately. But she did really good because I saw nothing, I saw nothing about [it before the fight].”
This can be really traumatizing for the girls if they [saw it happening],” he added. “You get hurt sometimes, [there are] some stories about that. It’s not fun. It’s really not fun.
So, yes, my wife has some traumatizing [aftereffects from the break-in], but she’s OK, and we’re going to fix that.” While Gane’s main priority is to keep his family safe, he also knows that some risks come with the territory of being France’s most famous prizefighter.
“It’s good, that’s great, the people are really kind, but now you see with all of this, I’m done with it, I’m finished with it.
At the beginning, it’s really cool. At the really beginning, it’s so cool. But now I’m done with this, man. If I can cross [the street anonymously], that’s better, that’s way better now. … Now it’s different, now I just want to be in a quiet place, calm, can chill with my family.
But now it’s difficult. Unfortunately it’s difficult to go to the school with my daughters, because you have all of this s*** that can happen after, like the people [that robbed my house] during my fight at home.”
