Tye Ruotolo Defends ONE Welterweight Grappling Title Friday at Lumpinee Stadium
The matchup pits Ruotolo’s scramble-heavy arsenal against Pawel Jaworski’s heel-hook specialization.
Overview
- The co-main event of ONE Fight Night 41 streams live on Prime Video on March 13 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, free to Amazon Prime members in the U.S. and Canada.
- Ruotolo enters unbeaten in ONE competition after two recent MMA finishes, returning to submission grappling to put his welterweight crown on the line.
- Jaworski, a 21-year-old Polish black belt from Academia Gorila, swept the 2025 IBJJF No-Gi Pans, Europeans, and Worlds with a lower-body attack focus.
- Previews highlight Ruotolo’s engineered scrambles and broad submission repertoire as potential counters to a specialist targeting the legs.
- Ruotolo has praised Jaworski’s heel hooks as a real danger while asserting superior overall jiu-jitsu and claiming his own leg-lock defense is the best in the world.