That dedication<\/a> showed every time they stepped on the mats.<\/p>\n\u201cTheir energy is impressive. They\u2019re fast learners. They\u2019re all in, they\u2019re all about it,\u201d Paez said. \u201cThey are progressing at a very fast rate. You can tell when someone\u2019s fully committed to something, and these kids are there to learn and to be the best. So, they hold up with everyone in the room. They learn quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Diego Paez sees championship-level striking from Ruotolo brothers in MMA debuts<\/p>\n
Diego Paez doesn\u2019t just train with the Ruotolo brothers. He watches their fights like everyone else when ONE Championship puts them on display.<\/p>\n
The results speak for themselves. Kade Ruotolo debuted in MMA during June 2024 and subsequently ran through three opponents in the first round. All three victories came by submission. But that powerful overhand right he nearly flattened Ahmed Mujtaba with? That came from hours drilling at Classic Fight Team.<\/p>\n
Tye Ruotolo followed the same blueprint. The ONE Welterweight Submission Grappling World Champion choked out Adrian Lee in September 2025, then repeated the performance against Shozo Isojima two months later. His standup looked sharper each time. The varied striking repertoire he displayed didn\u2019t appear overnight.<\/p>\n
Paez has nearly two decades of Muay Thai experience. He\u2019s studied the world\u2019s elite strikers. Recognition comes naturally when real talent emerges. The Ruotolo brothers carry that spark.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always tune in. They\u2019re killin\u2019 it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think their striking is getting better every single time that they step in there, and of course, they\u2019re going to stick to their roots, but I feel like they can hang with the best on the feet. They got good striking, and they\u2019re fully committed to everything they throw. I think that\u2019s one of their best attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Training partners become champions under the same roof. Diego Paez witnessed that evolution firsthand at Classic Fight Team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,185260,641,638,1865,153579,82],"class_list":["post-449922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diego-paez","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fight-night-40","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449922","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=449922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}