Perhaps it’s fitting that the three-time NCAA collegiate wrestling champion Ed Ruth will make his mixed martial arts debut on the same night that Phil Davis fights for a title.
The former Penn State wrestlers are linked to University Park, Pennsylvania, where both attended college and excelled as wrestlers. The 26-year old Ruth is from the same town as Davis — Harrisburg, PA — and, it seems, everything Davis does first, Ruth does better in the end.
Now Ruth is debuting at Bellator 163 on Nov. 4 at the Mohegan Sun, and Davis is left to wonder just how long it’ll be before the MMA prospect begins to trump his own feats.