{"id":543408,"date":"2026-03-18T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:23:11","slug":"tye-ruotolo-eyes-ruotolos-vs-lees-after-hard-fought-title-defense-at-one-fight-night-41-this-is-gonna-fire-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543408\/","title":{"rendered":"Tye Ruotolo eyes Ruotolos vs. Lees after hard-fought title defense at ONE Fight Night 41: “This is gonna fire me up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tye Ruotolo<\/a> left Bangkok with his ONE Welterweight Submission Grappling World Title intact after a grinding third defense at ONE Fight Night 41: Sinsamut vs. Jarvis on Prime Video<\/a> on Friday, March 13, inside Lumpinee Stadium. It was the toughest test of his title reign.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Californian opened the bout with a moment months in the making \u2014 a pro wrestling-style spear off the ropes that sent challenger Pawel Jaworski crashing to the mat. He had rehearsed the move with twin brother Kade before ever deploying it in competition.<\/p>\n

Polish IBJJF No-Gi World Champion Jaworski recovered and made life difficult for the rest of the 10 minutes. His leg locks, flexible guard, and inversion-heavy game presented a puzzle the champion found harder to crack than expected. Jaworski scored a catch with under two minutes left before Ruotolo countered with a deep mounted choke to level the count. A late triangle choke sealed the judges\u2019 decision in the champion\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just sent it on the ropes, and that\u2019s a hard move to defend. My opponent did not even try to defend. He looked like a deer in the headlights. It worked out pretty well,\u201d Ruotolo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was stoked. It felt good. At one point, it felt like I was pretty horizontal in the air. So I felt like there was definitely some good momentum, some good inertia. It felt fun for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tye heading back to the lab with eyes on the Lees<\/p>\n

Tye Ruotolo won, but he wasn\u2019t satisfied. Splitting his preparation between MMA \u2014 where he went 2-0 in late 2025 against Adrian Lee and Shozo Isojima \u2014 and submission grappling left visible rust on his game. His submission grappling record moved to 37-12 and the belt stayed, but the standard he holds himself to demands more.<\/p>\n

The post-fight call-out turned heads. Rather than chase another rematch with Adrian Lee, Ruotolo wants something bigger \u2014 the Ruotolos against Christian and Adrian Lee on a single card in MMA. He envisions the kind of family-versus-family collision that would light up the global stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt a little rusty in there, to say the least. I\u2019m normally three or four steps ahead of my opponents. This time, I just felt a little slower than normal. A little rusty, and I think it\u2019s just a lack of training in jiu-jitsu and too much focus on MMA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not towards the top, I\u2019d say it\u2019s a little bit on the lower side. But yeah, it\u2019s all good. It\u2019s part of the process. And I know that this is gonna fire me up for the next time. I\u2019m gonna get back to the lab with my brother, work on all this stuff that we\u2019ve been lagging on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019d be open to that, but I was meaning it for MMA \u2014 the Lees. I think Adrian called me out after his last fight, which I saw somewhere. So I just thought, man, instead of fighting Adrian again, it\u2019d be sick if we had the Ruotolos versus the Lees on one card. That would be super interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tye Ruotolo left Bangkok with his ONE Welterweight Submission Grappling World Title intact after a grinding third defense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,1865,165903,82,55551],"class_list":["post-543408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fight-night-41","tag-sports","tag-tye-ruotolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543408","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=543408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}