Benoit Saint Denis placed on a present in his residence nation.
“God of Battle” scored his second straight win with a smothering face crank submission of Mauricio Ruffy to have his hand raised in Saturday’s UFC Paris predominant occasion. The Frenchman used a wrestling-heavy assault to neutralize Ruffy’s harmful placing and paid off with a second-round end.
Watch Saint Denis’ successful submission under.
From the opening bell, Saint Denis imposed his will on the struggle, needing lower than 30 seconds to take Ruffy down and check the Brazilian’s grappling protection. Ruffy was in a position to survive full mount and even introduced the struggle again to the ft, however it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Saint Denis tackled him to the mat once more. A low blow to Ruffy introduced a quick pause to the motion, however had little impact on the struggle general as Saint Denis ended the spherical up on the scorecards.
In Spherical 2, Ruffy had some success on the ft, touchdown a leaping knee and scoring with punches when he may hold his distance. Nonetheless, Saint Denis regularly pushed Ruffy again to the fence the place Ruffy was unable to cease Saint Denis from dragging the struggle again to the canvas. Saint Denis wore Ruffy down, finally taking his again and locking within the face crank that pressured Ruffy to faucet on the 2:56 mark of Spherical 2.
Afterwards, Saint Denis mentioned he was open to stepping again into the cage on brief discover within the coming months if a high 10 light-weight is in want of an opponent.
Saint Denis (15-3, 1 NC) has received two straight fights following the primary consecutive losses of his profession. His UFC document stands at 7-3 with all of his wins coming by the use of knockout or submission.
Ruffy (12-2) suffers his first UFC loss after successful three straight fights within the promotion.
