The UFC has signed former ONE Championship two-division champ, Reinier de Ridder.
“The Dutch Knight” generally referred to by his initials RDR amongst followers is coming off of a win at United Arab Emirates: Warriors 51. He defeated Magomedmurad Khasaev there to shake off his two losses to the present ONE twin champion, Anatoly Malykhin. The 34-year-old martial artist brings loads of expertise to the UFC and now’s the time to take notice.
What are these abilities?
Nicely, listed below are some you may want to pay attention to:
Held middleweight titles in a number of different promotions together with ONE Championship.
De Ridder received middleweight titles at Hit Combating Championship and 360 Combating promotions earlier than arriving at ONE. He has examined himself each at middleweight and light-weight heavyweight, however middleweight appears to be the place he’s strongest.
Double Champion at ONE Championship
He made his debut with ONE Champion as a middleweight the place he picked up a first-round submission. Then when he moved as much as light-heavyweight, he picked up one other end by knockout out solidifying his recreation is something however one-dimensional. When he received the light-heavyweight title, he went again to middleweight and defended it twice.
Black belts in Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
He holds black belts in each Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu making him harmful within the clinch and on the bottom. Most of his wins come by means of submission and 4 by knockout as a consequence of his attain of 79 inches.
Earlier than dealing with the drive that’s Anatoly Malykhin in ONE Championship, de Ridder was seeking to declare the throne in each divisions he received titles in and put each of them to the check, alongside together with his undefeated report. In a time the place champions appear to vanish after they lose, de Ridder appears to be like to erase his losses by selecting up extra wins.
No debut date has been introduced by the UFC but, however when wanting on the present UFC middleweight rankings, there are some enjoyable fights to make there.
