Bringing Valentina to every Joanna's thread is pointless and waste of time. This what I don't like about Valentina's hype. As long she is great fighter, it looks like her biggest achievement is to win vs Joanna in amataur muay thai competition (at least for her "fans"). First she have to win belt and defend it few times and then we can make comparisions. Valentina is literally nowhere close to title shot at 125 lbs and basicly out of picture at 135 lbs.
Superfight is fight able to handle to be main event of ppv card. First Joanna has to defend belt at least 2 more times and it won't be easy as many could think. Superfight will happen only if Joanna will become draw (unlikely) or her 125 lbs oponnent will be draw. So basicly we need PvZ as 125 lbs champion. If Jessica Andrade will keep improving and demolish 1-2 more girls and Joanna will be able to defend belt 1-2 more times there is your ppv main event.
It's not pointless as a lot of Joanna threads end up talking about her moving up to 125lbs. Something which I doubt she'll ever do.
How is it hype when Valentina has only ever lost to Amanda Nunes, with the first loss having her dominating the third round and finishing much stronger (this is the fight which lead everyone to believe that in a five round fight that she would take over in the later rounds). As for the second fight, the media score cards were 10 for Nunes, 10 for Valentina and 2 draws. 1/3 judges gave Valentina the fight, all it would have took is one of the other judges to give Valentina the nod in one of the close rounds (of which there were many) and we'd be looking at Valentina as the champion. Not to mention many MMA fans scored the fight in favor of Valentina, from what I've seen and on online polls the majority of the fans give her the nod with a lot of the people voting for Nunes running their mouth about Valentina (aka, they're haters).
This super fight is a pipe dream, Joanna won't step up. Very few fighters do in such scenarios.
If she does, she's getting mollywhipped. It's a different ball game, Valentina has been the smaller fighter in most of her bouts, this time she will be the bigger girl (she's naturally more thickset than Joanna). Joanna is not a heavy hitter anything like Amanda, she has no knockout power for Valentina to be cautious about. She also has no offensive grappling to fear, she's purely defensive with her grappling. Valentina has nothing to worry about when clinching up and coming forward, if anything she'll be the one sweeping and taking down Joanna (she offers a different take down threat compared to anything Joanna has faced in her career). Valentina has 6 career submissions, she has took down the likes of Nunes, Holm (both of whom Ronda couldn't get down) and Pena.
Then we can talk about a mental block which could feature with Joanna having fought and lost to Valentina on multiple occasions in Muay Thai. Along with the fact she'd be moving up in weight with Valentina moving down, knowing that she'll be the smaller girl.
So what we're left with is a technical striking bout. Valentina wins comfortably, she's more powerful, she's more technical, if anyone is gonna' do anything with grappling in this fight it'll be Valentina (aka she has more tools in her arsenal). Joanna has pretty much no chance to win this fight, it's a horrible match up for her and a very comfortable one for Valentina.
Valentina has been striking with the likes of Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes whilst who exactly are the great strikers Joanna has beat ? Karolina, Claudia ? Not comparable to the competition Valentina has fought. Jessica ? She's a little wrecking ball but technically her striking is very poor, she's wild...she's aggressive and wind mills haymaking hooks. The truth is Joanna has never fought a great striker in MMA, her entire career has been her using her outstanding TDD and out striking her competition who are poor-okay strikers.
The only people talking like it will be close, or more hilariously that Joanna will win, are the Joanna fan boys who think that because she's undefeated and the long time reigning and defending champion that she is somehow 'better' than Valentina who is yet to win the title. But the truth is, if this fight should happen it'll be awesome but a very comfortable victory for Valentina.
