{"id":440948,"date":"2026-08-23T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:48:11","slug":"ufc-sacramento-video-reinier-de-ridder-thrashes-roman-dolidze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440948\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Sacramento video: Reinier de Ridder thrashes Roman Dolidze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated Aug. 22, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Reinier de Ridder\u00a0made an emphatic statement in his UFC debut at light heavyweight and did to Roman Dolidze what no one’s ever done.<\/p>\n

De Ridder (22-4 MMA, 5-2 UFC) got the stoppage with 59 seconds left in the opening round when referee Frank Trigg shut things down after Dolidze (15-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) took dozens and dozens of unanswered punches in the 205-pound featured fight at UFC Fight Night 285 at Golden1 Center in Sacramento, Calif.<\/p>\n

“I knew he was going to go for the legs \u2013 he does that every time,” de Ridder said in his post-fight interview. “We prepared for this. I wanted to show some knees and kicks, but we’ll save that for next time.”<\/p>\n

Both de Ridder and Dolidze made their promotional debuts at 205. De Ridder was a 205-pound champion for ONE Championship prior to his move to the UFC, where he debuted at middleweight. A two-fight skid at 185 had him return to light heavyweight, though, and he made things look easy against Dolidze \u2013\u00a0who never had been finished by knockout, and had been stopped just once previously<\/p>\n

de Ridder needed just 20 seconds to take Dolidze down, and once on the canvas he went to work looking for submissions, then trading back to some light ground-and-pound. After two minutes, they scrambled and de Ridder landed punch after punch while referee Frank Trigg warned Dolidze to get out of there. He did nothing but cover up for a full 45 seconds, but Trigg let him survive, perhaps thanks to Dolidze blocking or partially blocking many of the punches.<\/p>\n

But de Ridder worked his way to side control after he gave up on the punches, then got to full mount and went back to work with punches and elbows with 75 seconds left. Dolidze had virtually nothing to offer, and de Ridder had a stellar win in his UFC debut at light heavyweight.<\/p>\n

Up-to-the-minute\u00a0UFC\u00a0Sacramento results:Reinier de Ridder def. Roman Dolidze\u00a0via TKO (punches) \u2013\u00a0Round 1, 4:01MarQuel Mederos\u00a0def. Mason Jones via TKO (strikes) \u2013 Round 2, 2:07<\/a>Carli Judice def. Jeisla Chaves via TKO (kick, punches) \u2013 Round 1, 1:39<\/a>Anthony Wint\u00a0def. Terrance Chatman via technical submission (arm-triangle choke) \u2013 Round 1, 4:29<\/a>Jamall Emmers def. Lerryan Douglas via TKO (punches) \u2013\u00a0Round 1, 3:38<\/a>Shamil Gaziev def. Kennedy Nzechukwu\u00a0via knockout (punch) \u2013\u00a0Round 1, 1:20<\/a>Chris Padilla def. Nasrat Haqparast\u00a0via technical submission (arm-triangle choke) \u2013\u00a0Round 3, 4:59<\/a>Marcio Barbosa def. Ryan Kuse\u00a0via TKO (punches) \u2013 Round 1, 2:47<\/a>Stan Dorsainvil def. Gauge Young\u00a0via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)<\/a>Jackson McVey def. Wes Schultz\u00a0via TKO (knee, punches) \u2013 Round 1, 4:13<\/a>Shanelle Dyer def. Elise Reed via TKO (punches) \u2013 Round 3, 1:42<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>\"\"\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Aug. 22, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET Reinier de Ridder\u00a0made an emphatic statement in his UFC debut at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,121,123,122,138614,152808,152809,7852,121738,174746,7851,508,377,246],"class_list":["post-440948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-accessfree","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagone-championship","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}