Danielle Kelly backs Kade Ruotolo to beat Mikey Musumeci: “I feel like the bigger person always wins”
Danielle Kelly provided her breakdown of the upcoming submission grappling super-fight between Kade Ruotolo and Mikey Musumeci.
On September 6, ONE Championship will return to North America for the highly-anticipated ONE 168: Denver.
In the co-main event, a must-see submission grappling match is scheduled, as ONE lightweight world champion Ruotolo will defend his throne against ONE flyweight world champion Mikey Musumeci.
Ruotolo and Musumeci have both maintained an undefeated promotional record and have subsequently become the faces of the promotion's expansion into submission grappling. Therefore, many fans have predicted this matchup at ONE 168 could go down as one of the greatest of all time in the sport.
During an interview with Sportskeeda, ONE women's atomweight submission grappling world champion Danielle Kelly weighed in on Ruotolo vs Musumeci:
"I'm a big fan of the Ruotolos, I love their style. I’m not saying that Mikey’s bad or anything, I think it’s up at Kade’s weight class right? So as a smaller person, I feel like the bigger person always wins. But I feel like they're both technical. But I think Kade's just overall like a good grappler. So I'm might have to give it to Kade."
ONE 168: Denver goes down inside the Ball Arena. Tickets for the action-packed event on September 6 can be found on Ticketmaster.
Watch Kelly's entire interview with Sportskeeda below:
Danielle Kelly looks to maintain undefeated promotional record at ONE Fight Night 24
On Friday, August 2, Danielle Kelly will defend her ONE women's atomweight submission grappling world title for the first time. Kelly's latest challenge goes down in the ONE Fight Night 24 co-main event against Mayssa Bastos.
Bastos is a nine-time BJJ world champion who made her promotional debut in March, defeating Kanae Yamada by unanimous decision.
Meanwhile, Kelly's last appearance was a unanimous decision win against Jessa Khan, which earned her a world title and extended her ONE record to 3-0-1.
ONE Fight Night 24 will take place inside the legendary Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Friday's event can be seen live and for free by North American and Canadian viewers with an active Amazon Prime Video subscription.