A new challenger for Benoit Saint-Denis has turned up after his UFC 315 fight has fallen through it.
UFC Lightweight Competier Benoit Saint-Denis would be on Saturday opposite Joel Alvarez on the UFC 315 head card in Montreal. But only a few days before the event, Alvarez reportedly withdrew due to an unknown injury, and Saint-Denis is not expected to have a short-notice replacement opponent.
That leaves Saint-Denis in an uncomfortable place while he looks back to bounce back from successive TKO losses in 2024. The French Vechtloper was on a role in the run-up to his current Skid, with a flurry of knockouts that he was in the lightweight top 15.
Saint-Denis may not have the opportunity to start the UFC 315 head card, but an intriguing name is in the mix to face him after a recent callout.
Benoit Saint-Denis poses on the scale at the UFC Paris Ceremonial Road-In. Credit: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC
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Despite his recent struggles, Saint-Denis remains one of the most dangerous contenders in the lightweight division and has claimed himself as a UFC star. Before his current losing skid, Saint-Denis had not lost a back-to-back fighting in his combat sport career.
While we are waiting for clarity about the status of Saint-Denis for UFC 315 of the UFC Brass, a potential replacement opponent announced his presence on social media only a few hours after the withdrawal of Alvarez.
In a recent message to X, UFC Lightweight Mauricio Ruffy sent a message to UFC CEO Dana White and the matchmakers.
“Hey, UFC! How about a main event in a fighting evening against Saint Denis?” Ruffy placed Saturday.
Ruffy recently defeated King Green with a ridiculous knockout on the head-kick on UFC 313 in March. He is unbeaten in his UFC official period, because Alum of the Contender Series of Dana White has won all three of his octagonal bookings.
At the moment, Saint-Denis did not respond to Ruffy's message. Saint-Denis recently fell for Renato Moicano in UFC Paris in September.
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Ruffy quickly rises the lightweight ranks and knocks on the door of a potential place in the top 15. A victory over an opponent of the caliber of Saint-Denis would almost certainly catapult him in the rankings.
Ruffy, whose style has been compared to Conor McGregor, McGregor recently promised that he intends to beat the Khabib's Islam Makhachev team in a future matchup. McGregor fell on Makhachev's Mentor and UFC Hall of Famer Khabib Nurmagomedov on UFC 229.
But opposite Saint-Denis, when the Ruffy fight comes to flowering, there is no easy challenge to cope. Before his recent losses for Dustin Poirier and Moicano, Saint-Denis earned a wild head-kick knockout about Matt Fre clola on UFC 295 to expand his five-fighter winstreak.