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de Ridder has changed camps ahead of his permanent move up to
light heavyweight in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship .
The Dutchman is scheduled to take on Roman
Dolidze at 205 pounds next, on Aug. 22 at Golden 1 Center in
Sacramento, California. He recently revealed that he has parted
ways with
Kill Cliff FC and joined another Florida gym,
American Top Team , ahead of his UFC light heavyweight
debut. Reinier de Ridder explains why he left Kill Cliff FC for
American Top Team
The former One
Championship two-division titleholder explains that while he
really enjoyed the atmosphere at Kill Cliff FC, the level of
training has allegedly not been up to mark in the last couple of
months. One of de Ridder’s favorite coaches, Aung La N
Sang , recently opened his own gym, which limited his time at
Kill Cliff FC.
He also claims that head coach Henri Hooft has not been around much
over the last couple of months due to personal reasons and that
many top fighters allegedly left Kill Cliff FC as the level of
training declined.
“I did switch up my camp,” de Ridder told Full Mount MMA. “So, I’ve
been at ATT this camp, which is a big change. I’ve been able to
work with a lot of high-level guys, which is cool - coaches and
training partners… Some stuff was just not good at Kill Cliff the
last six months. Henri had some personal stuff. He had been out of
the gym for a couple of months. And Aung La, my guy I like to work
with a lot, he opened his own gym. So, he hadn’t been at Kill Cliff
much. And a lot of big guys left because just the content of the
classes was not that good. So, it was time to make a change,
unfortunately. Cause I really liked them, really liked the
atmosphere, liked everything there.”
After getting off to a sensational start in the UFC, going 4-0 with
wins over Bo Nickal and
Robert
Whittaker , de Ridder (21-4) suffered consecutive losses to
Brendan
Allen and Caio
Borralho , prompting the move up to light heavyweight. He’s
looking to return to winning ways at
UFC Sacramento . 🚨🤔 Reinier De Ridder says he no
longer trains at KillCliff and moved to rival gym ATT: "Some stuff just was not good at Killcliff in the last 6 months.
Henry and some personal stuff. He'd been out of the gym for pretty
long time."
via @MMAFullMount pic.twitter.com/ikmFEqyIFi —
Full Mount MMA (@MMAFullMount)
August 8, 2026
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