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<\/p>\nMauricio Ruffy had a letdown on the UFC Paris card, and one analyst has some criticism.<\/p>\n
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Ruffy shared the Octagon with Benoit Saint Denis inside Accor Arena this past Saturday. While Ruffy had success with his striking, it was a disaster class for him on the ground. Saint Denis was able to weather the storm and scored a second-round submission finish<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ruffy has taken a lot of flak following the defeat<\/a>. During the UFC Paris post-fight show on ESPN+, Din Thomas shared his belief that Ruffy\u2019s will to keep fighting was depleted the moment things didn\u2019t go his way (via MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been high on Ruffy since he hit the stage,\u201d Thomas said on the UFC Paris Post Show. \u201cWe\u2019ve been making comparisons between him and Conor McGregor, and I expected that from Ruffy. I said this guy, especially fighting a guy that gets wild like Benoit Saint Denis, I thought he would be able to pick him apart. I thought he was going to do something fascinating tonight, and the first body kick shook Ruffy up. Then the head kick shook him up. And I think that took Ruffy so far out of his game, he did not want to fight anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Thomas went on to say that Saint Denis made him a believe that he\u2019s still relevant in the lightweight division.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to be out there anymore, and it surprised me,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cHe made me eat my words. And I\u2019m always happy when these guys can make me eat my words, because that means there\u2019s something that I don\u2019t know. I own up to it. Benoit Saint Denis made me eat my words tonight. I was uncomfortable talking to Benoit Saint Denis about the fight, because I thought he was going to get beat up. Tonight, he made me eat my words.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether or not Ruffy can bounce back remains to be seen. He had been riding a seven-fight winning streak prior to the loss against Saint Denis. \u201cOne Shot\u201d will need to make adjustments to his grappling over at the Fighting Nerds. Ruffy figures to have some time on his side at the age of 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Ruffy had a letdown on the UFC Paris card, and one analyst has some criticism. Ruffy shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-126323","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\/126323","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=126323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}