ONE Fight Night 10, Waiting for a Surprise from Reinier de Ridder

The ONE Fight Night 10 event on May 6 will see the showdown super-fight between Tye Ruotolo and Reinier de Ridder.

Reportedly, to prepare for this duel, Reinier de Ridder honed himself with the “gods” of BJJ in the US. This has made his opponent, Tye Ruotolo, impatient to wait for his opponent’s training results.

The two BJJ champions will meet in a grappling super-fight at ONE Fight Night 10 on 6 May. In the match against the protégé of his former opponent Andre Galvao, De Ridder took advantage of the time by training with the best.

“The Dutch Knight” nicknamed De Ridder, honed himself with renowned BJJ coach John Danaher to GOAT BJJ Gordon Ryan. Apart from that, he also shares the mat with Giancarlo Bodoni and Nicholas Meregali who are regular champions in international BJJ events.

His opponent, Tye, is no stranger to the names of the BJJ champions above who trained with De Ridder. Instead of being afraid, Tye even admitted that he was very excited.

“I know he (De Ridder) is honing his BJJ skills with Gordon Ryan and the likes of New Wave (John) Danaher,” Tye said on The MMA Superfan’s YouTube channel.

For information, Tye, who trains at the BJJ Atos gym, often intersects with New Wave stars on the BJJ stage. He couldn’t wait to see the results of De Ridder’s training with his opponents.

“It looks like they’re going to show De Ridder some tricks to beat me and I can’t wait to see what he’s doing.”
ONE Fight Night 10 marked ONE Championship’s inaugural event in the Land of Uncle Sam. In the final, a trilogy bout between Demetrious Johnson and Adriano Moraes will take place for the ONE Flyweight World Title.

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