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Tye Ruotolo has provided an update on a potential super-fight against his twin brother Kade.
The Ruotolo brothers have begun taking over the submission grappling landscape at only 19 years old. At ONE on Prime Video 5, Tye advanced his promotional record to 2-0 with a submission win against Marat Gafurov. During his post-event interview, he was asked about competing against Kade and had this to say:
"My brother has the 170 belt and I can still make it down to 170 with some time but I want to be fighting for a belt and my brother and I can have a match at some point, for sure. We can market that and it'd be a crazy absolutely barnburner of a match.”
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Kade also competed at ONE on Prime Video 5. The ONE lightweight submission grappling champion defended his belt for the first time against Matheus Gabriel. He was later asked in his post-event interview about competing against his brother and had this to say:
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"I'm technically 0-3 against him in competition so I think I want that more than he does.”
Tye’s first bout with ONE was at lightweight, but his second appearance was at a catchweight of 180 pounds. This weight change could have been made because Gafurov accepted the bout on short notice, or the 19-year-old could be holding off on competing against Kade.
Tye Ruotolo opens up on why he doesn’t like competing against his brother Kade
According to Kade Ruotolo, Tye has beaten the ONE lightweight submission grappling champion three times. It seemed inevitable they would compete for the lightweight title, but Tye doesn’t seem overly interested in going up against his brother. He had this to say during his ONE on Prime Video 5 post-event interview:
“Yeah, absolutely. I started fighting bigger people a little while ago. And the reason for that being is, my brother and I were always really the same size growing up. In the last couple of years, I've had maybe a five-pound weight advantage on him. So I've just been fighting and going up in the division so we can kind of stay away from each other because, at the end of the day, I don't like to fight him that much. He's super tough and he's my brother at the end of the day.”
The Ruotolo brothers seem to have an unbreakable bond. They are in the process of building their own training gym in Costa Rica. That said, a buildup between the twin brothers competing for the ONE lightweight submission grappling title would be a must-see for diehard combat sports fans.
