{"id":1207,"date":"2023-05-22T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2023-05-22T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:27:05","slug":"jt-torres-and-tye-ruotolo-to-challenge-tainan-dalpra-for-middleweight-crown-at-2023-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/jt-torres-and-tye-ruotolo-to-challenge-tainan-dalpra-for-middleweight-crown-at-2023-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"JT Torres and Tye Ruotolo to Challenge Tainan Dalpra for Middleweight Crown at 2023 Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tye-ruotolo\">Tye Ruotolo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jt-torres\">JT Torres<\/a>\u00a0have entered the middleweight division at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ibjjf-world-championship\">IBJJF World Championship<\/a>\u00a02023, ready to challenge the reigning champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tainan-dalpra\">Tainan Dalpra<\/a>\u00a0for the title. Ruotolo isn\u2019t alone in representing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/atos\">ATOS<\/a>\u00a0in the division either, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/andy-murasaki\">Andy Murasaki<\/a>\u00a0will also be competing at the event and he\u2019ll no doubt be eager to dethrone Dalpra as well. The division is actually incredibly difficult wherever you look with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aj-agazarm\">AJ Agazarm<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tarik-hopstock\">Tarik Hopstock<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexandre-de-jesus\">Alexandre De Jesus<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bradley-hill\">Bradley Hill<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pedro-maia\">Pedro Maia<\/a> all competing at that weight as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How the gameplay of these two lightweight aces will translate against bigger opponents should be interesting to observe. Tye Ruotolo, in particular, has seen quite a bit of recent high-profile success at heavier weight classes in other major competition venues, including a unanimous decision victory in a\u00a0submission grappling superfight\u00a0over ONE Championship\u2019s MMA light heavyweight veteran Reinier de Ridder, and a bronze medal finish in ADCC 2022\u2019s stacked absolute division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full event will be streaming from FloGrappling from June 1 through June 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsZkwZyycrs\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fjiujitsutimes.com&amp;rp=%2Fjt-torres-and-tye-ruotolo-to-challenge-tainan-dalpra-for-middleweight-crown-at-2023-worlds%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0UL9isNSjw7kIiNHRj7J82HibrVz5ga-i8uFIZBhH1LcHdUKNcXsyFkVU#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A9007.89999999106%2C%22ls%22%3A3680%2C%22le%22%3A5423.899999991059%7D\" height=\"1042\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both\u00a0Tye Ruotolo\u00a0and\u00a0JT Torres\u00a0have entered the middleweight division at the\u00a0IBJJF World Championship\u00a02023, ready to challenge the reigning champion\u00a0Tainan Dalpra\u00a0for the title. Ruotolo isn\u2019t alone in representing\u00a0ATOS\u00a0in the division either, as\u00a0Andy Murasaki\u00a0will also be competing at the event and he\u2019ll no doubt be eager to dethrone Dalpra as well. 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