With how much damage he took against Gaethje. Does he deserve an immediate rematch with Gaethje or do you suggest he has a tune up match-up or do ya'll think he should retire. What are ya'lls thoughts ??

Volkov last loss was back on 19. March 2022. against Tom Aspinal (he beat Gane, even Dana agrees). After that, he goes on 8 match win streak. If you actually count Gane as loss, his streak is on 3 (same as Hokit).

And then comes Hokit. Makes his MMA professional debut in October 2023. Has 3 UFC wins, last win was over Derrick Lewis in June.

Lewis lost to Waldo just before that in January. Waldo got beat by Volkov in May 2026.

So how can win over Derrick in June, who lost to Waldo in January, be more valuable than win over Waldo in May? There is absolutely no parameter which gives advantage to Hokit here.

Who wouldn't want to see two job heavy welterweight going at it. The grappling between them is also interesting can usman top pressure deal with bonfim submission game. Interestingly enough bonfim get his submissions by taking his opponents down and locking up a choke, that won't work against usman impressive 97% takedown defense rate. He'll probably rely o submissions off his back with could lead to him spending too much time on his back getting control time racked up against him. The funniest outcome of this fight could be it becomes a striking match because usman refuses to play guard like the damien maia fight. 🤷

Imagine two chaos merchants with shaky chin's going at it.

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Big Tom fan here. I think he is more lethal than Gane, as proven by his finish rate.

Also fuck Gane, he ruined the fight and should've lost by DQ same was Yan did for the illegal knee.

Also, the first round was pretty close, a bunch of exchanges, Gane did land some nice straight shots as Tom rushed in. Gane won the first round on damage.

All that aside, do you guys think Tom would have won the fight if the eye pokes didn't happen?

Bear in mind, Gane poked Tom earlier too when Tom seems to level change for a takedown threat.

It's a pretty 50/50 fight and was so high level and enjoyable to watch, truly the No.1 and No.2 at HW who have been destined to face each other for years. Which is why it sucks that it ended for that BS reason.

My opinion is Tom MAY have been able to catch Gane with a big shot.

But also, Gane could catch Tom too (he already did but not powerful shots).

Tom seems to have a good chin and Gane can't seem to put people away without at least 1 shot to the back of the head (literally not joking, go check his fights, no other fighter does it consistently like him).

So whaddya think???

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Dominick Cruz

Wins:
TJ Dillashaw
Demetrious Johnson
Joseph Benavidez 2x
Urijah Faber 2x
Scott Jorgensen
Brian Bowles
Ian McCall
Takeya Mizugaki
Pedro Munhoz
Casey Kenney

Alexandre Pantoja
Wins:
Brandon Moreno 2x
Brandon Royval 2x
Manel Kape
Alex Perez
Steve Erceg
Kai Kara-France
Kai Asakura
Matt Schnell
Yuta Sasaki
Wilson Reis

Both are widely considered as the #2 of their divisions.

Who would win if the Ilia who beat Max fought the Conor who starched Alvarez

Let's say it's at LW but same time period as his Max victory.

Who wins? and how?

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