{"id":124463,"date":"2025-09-07T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124463\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:44:07","slug":"fight-fans-blast-mauricio-ruffy-for-embarrassing-defeat-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124463\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight fans blast Mauricio Ruffy for &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; defeat at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Ruffy had his Instagram page flooded with negative comments following his second-round submission loss to Benoit Saint Denis at UFC Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Benoit-Saint-Denis-UFC-Paris-Mauricio-Ruffy-UFC-1024x698.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Benoit Saint Denis, UFC Paris, Mauricio Ruffy, UFC\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ruffy (12-2 MMA) collided with Saint Denis (15-3 MMA) in the co-headliner of this afternoon\u2019s UFC fight card in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One Shot\u2019 was returning to action for the first time since scoring a highlight reel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/mauricio-ruffy\/ufc-313-results-mauricio-ruffy-kos-king-green-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spinning wheel kick<\/a> knockout victory over King Green at UFC 313 this past March and entered the contest on a seven-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>As for Benoit Saint Denis, the \u2018God of War\u2019 had most previously competed in May of this year, where he scored a second-round submission victory over Kyle Prepolec. That win had snapped a two-fight losing skid for \u2018BSD\u2019, who had previously suffered defeats at the hands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-reveals-his-next-big-focus-following-mma-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Poirier<\/a> and Renato Moicano.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Mauricio Ruffy, things did not go his way at all in today\u2019s contest with Benoit Saint Denis. The \u2018God of War\u2019 was able to get the fight to the floor early and proceeded to smother and abuse \u2018One Shot\u2019 on route to a lopsided second-round submission victory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-541403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Benoit-Saint-Denis-UFC-Paris-Results-Pros-react-UFC.jpg\" alt=\"Benoit Saint Denis, UFC Paris, Results, Pros react, UFC\" width=\"1267\" height=\"807\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Official UFC Paris Results: Benoit Saint Denis def. Mauricio Ruffy via submission (face crank) at 2:56 of Round 2<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the bouts outcome, several fight fans felt compelled to go to Ruffy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ruffy_mma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram page<\/a> and barrage his most recent post with negative messages.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly some fans were happy to see Ruffy suffer his first career Octagon loss and eat some humble pie in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the comments below:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZero effort. As soon as you see adversity you quit. Embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you the new clown who wants to stop Makhachev and Ilia\ud83d\ude02\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTF were you doing tonight \ud83d\ude02\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude was calling out islam makhachev \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 and got mauled by the walmart version of him \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo grappling defense \u2705\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou fight in MMA and you say sambo is not important. Tonight, you tap because you take something for granted.\ud83d\udc4f\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who would you like to see Mauricio Ruffy fight next following his submission loss to Benoit Saint Denis at today\u2019s UFC Paris event?<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Ruffy had his Instagram page flooded with negative comments following his second-round submission loss to Benoit Saint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-124463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}