{"id":125169,"date":"2025-09-06T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:58:09","slug":"ruffy-has-zero-grappling-islam-makhachev-other-pros-react-to-benoit-saint-denis-finish-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125169\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ruffy has zero grappling\u2019: Islam Makhachev, other pros react to Benoit Saint Denis\u2019 finish at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Islam Makhachev was not impressed with Mauricio Ruffy\u2019s grappling ability \u2014 which is something Benoit Saint Denis took advantage of during an incredible performance on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Saint Denis faced the surging Ruffy in the co-main event at UFC Paris, and in front of a loud hometown crowd, Saint Denis cooked Ruffy immediately, and showed the relentless style fans were treated to when Saint Denis started making his run in the UFC lightweight division. In the second round, \u201cGod of War\u201d got control on the ground once again and got the rear-naked choke submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After getting stopped in two straight bouts by Dustin Poirier and Renato Moicano, Saint Denis now has back-to-back second-round submission victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Ruffy, his seven-fight win streak comes to an end. The Contender Series standout picked up three straight wins to start his UFC run, including a Knockout of the Year contender against King Green at UFC 313 in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC pros reacted to the performance from Saint Denis, including former lightweight champ Islam Makhachev. Check out some of their reactions below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev was not impressed with Mauricio Ruffy\u2019s grappling ability \u2014 which is something Benoit Saint Denis took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-125169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}