“I couldn’t have asked for a better return. On September 3, French MMA fighter Taylor Lapilus will take part in the big UFC Paris party at the Accor Arena. He will thus mark his return to the UFC, the largest MMA league in the world. Not kept in 2016, the native of Ile-de-France signed up again with the American organization this Friday.
Lapilus first signed with the UFC in 2014 but, unexpectedly, his contract was not renewed after the four scheduled bouts. The UFC will be in France for the first time, and Taylor Lapilus will fight: “If someone had told me that when I started MMA, not sure I would have believed it. I am participating in a moment in history. It’s the first big UFC event in France, and I’m on the map in a legendary venue. MMA is an extreme combat sport and France was one of the last major countries to ban the discipline before officially recognizing it in 2020.
“I didn’t give up. I knew that the recipe for coming back was to get results and the rest would come later,” explained the French fighter. Now back in the big leagues, Taylor Lapilus hopes to come back “for a long time to the UFC, win and climb the rankings and do all the rest of my career in the UFC. »
At the September 3 event, Lapilus will face Germany’s Khalid Taha. The Habs are rather confident: “I see myself as better than him. The main fight will oppose Ciryl Gane, standard bearer of MMA in France, to Australian Tai Tuivasa in the heavyweight category.