Within the first of three world title fights on Friday night time, Kade Ruotolo grew to become the inaugural ONE light-weight submission grappling champion. After catching a heel hook, Ruotolo submitted his opponent, Uali Kurzhev, in simply over 4 minutes to win the world championship.
Kurzhev, a four-time sambo world champion, was restricted to protection for almost all of the competition after touchdown an early foot sweep that caught Kade Ruotolo off guard.
In his post-fight interview, Kade Ruotolo gave props to his opponent for the way lengthy he was capable of keep within the heel hook place with out tapping:
“Man, props to him. He’s so robust. He let it pop a number of instances. It was type of nasty. I made positive to investigate cross-check him, and made positive he was good. However man, he’s a stud. He’s an absolute monster, for positive. That foot sweep at first caught me without warning, I wasn’t prepared for that. Legend.”
He added:
“From there, I simply entered right into a leglock scenario — the within heel hook. From there, it’s so laborious to defend as soon as I get that grip. I’m placing my hips in, all of the stress is on the within of his knee, after which proper there you see it’s twerking — nasty. I get as a lot leverage as I can. And like I mentioned, it popped possibly three, 4, 5 instances, and I used to be like ‘How is that this man… he’s obtained rubber legs.’ He wasn’t even human, however I lastly obtained the end and I’m stoked.”
Kade Ruotolo says a lifetime of laborious work has led him to this second
While it might have taken him simply over 4 minutes to win the ONE light-weight submission grappling world title, Kade Ruotolo’s journey to the highest hasn’t occurred in a single day.
Ruotolo grew to become the inaugural ONE light-weight submission grappling world champion at ONE on Prime Video 3 by submitting Uali Kurzhev within the Axiata Enviornment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The 19-year previous stepped into the highlight along with his record-breaking ADCC 2022 world championship win only a month prior. He has saved his unbelievable momentum going by profitable the world title on Friday night time.
In his post-fight interview at ONE on Prime Video 3, Ruotolo reminded everybody that he didn’t develop into a jiu-jitsu prodigy in a single day:
“I feel it’s simply 16 years of preparation man, my whole life. I’ve been doing this since I may bear in mind. I used to be born on these mats, so it was only a matter of time earlier than the outcomes began paying off.”
