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Blanchfield couldn't take Taila Santos down, Valentina did.

Psychojoe86 said:
Valentina failed every takedown attempt in that fight. And got taken down and out grappled each time.

Val finely got a takedown in rd 5 on a fatigued santos, who was injured from clash of heads.

bad example dude
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Yep. It was pretty clear that if blanchfield had 5 rounds, she probably not only would have gotten santos down, but she was probably going to melt santos until she got a finish.
 
It depends. Taila might not trained any wrestling for Valentina. The fight did show us that Blanchfield's wrestling isn't at the highest level but she can turn into Maycee Barber with the wall wrestling. It was actually a decent test for Blanchfield. She overcame adversity and found a way to grind out a win.
 
NoSmilez said:
It depends. Taila might not trained any wrestling for Valentina. The fight did show us that Blanchfield's wrestling isn't at the highest level but she can turn into Maycee Barber with the wall wrestling. It was actually a decent test for Blanchfield. She overcame adversity and found a way to grind out a win.
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I wrestled most of my youth and Erin"s wrestling is great actually, she does everything right and more. She was just outgunned strength wise.
 
xhaydenx said:
She's only really fought 1 decent grappler and that was Cortez, and she lost. If she was some great grappler she wouldn't have been going to decisions with girls like Alpar and Brogan.
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Terrible example. Blanchfield had Cortez defending submissions the whole fight. That was bad judging
 
leto1776 said:
Terrible example. Blanchfield had Cortez defending submissions the whole fight. That was bad judging
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How is it a terrible example? Cortez was/is still the best wrestler she's faced, and she couldn't dominate with her grappling like she's been able to against lesser girls.

Don't really know who I think won. I seem to score it different every time I rewatch it. It was really close.
 
xhaydenx said:
How is it a terrible example? Cortez was/is still the best wrestler she's faced, and she couldn't dominate with her grappling like she's been able to against lesser girls.

Don't really know who I think won. I seem to score it different every time I rewatch it. It was really close.
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It’s a terrible example because the only people that think Cortez won that are her team and her family.
 
Poirierfan said:
I wrestled most of my youth and Erin"s wrestling is great actually, she does everything right and more. She was just outgunned strength wise.
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She is a bit fat for her division. She does train wrestling out of a spot in her area. I am not saying she is bad but she isn’t elite at it.
 
Welterskelter said:
Santos did great but Blanchfield outlasted her. Blanchfield pulled away in the 3rd with the relentless wrestling pressure thanks to her unwavering stamina. She took a lot of punches to the face but she's obviously durable.

If Grasso has more snap on her punches than Santos, and I suspect she does, she could stop Blanchfield in the stand up or club and sub. Just my fanboy gut feeling.
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Santos was comfortably winning the fight until she attempted a takedown, Erin rebounded against the fence and was fortunate to land on top. It was sheer luck on Erin's side what changed the outcome of the fight. Santos, who was returning from injury and hadn't fought in 14 months, gassed out getting back up. It was a different fight after that. If Santos hadn't attempted that takedown, she would have probably won with ease. Outclassed, my ass. Erin didn't do much to win the fight and won by wall and stall against a gassed opponent. Erin's striking looked like crap and she couldn't score a single takedown. She's only 24 and has a lot of room to improve, but didn't earn herself a title shot with that completely unimpressive performance.
 
Prologue said:
I think Val probably still has the best technique, but she might be falling out of her physical prime. In her fights with Santos and Grasso, she looked like she was getting outmuscled. At least to me anyways. I'm sure someone will tell me I'm stupid for saying that.

I can definitely see Erin making it tough for either winner of Grasso/Val.
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It looked to me like Val out muscled Grasso, but was outmuscled by Santos (before the head butt). Val has great technique for sure, but she's always additionally relied on her physical strength as well. That just doesn't always work out.
 
Blanchfield vs Santos was easily the worst fight on the card. Boring wall 'n' stall with amateur level striking. Neither of them deserve to be on a main card ever again.
 
Blanchfield couldnt get Aldrich down either. Went 0/4. Shes good but seriously overrated by some.
 
Geniusss said:
Blanchfield had like 14 attemps and didn't get 1 single takedown

Valentina did get to take Taila Santos down

And Blanchfield is supposed to be the best grappler and that's supposed to be the path to beat Valentina
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Let’s just be honest - Thalia beat Val.

Even if you want to go full GSP/Hendricks mode, that headbutt just asterisk’s the whole fight.

Grasso got the dub, but putting that to one side, how did Thalia not earn a rematch?
 
NoSmilez said:
She overcame adversity and found a way to grind out a win.
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And at the end of the day, that's what matters. Getting the wins. :)

It's easy to try to besservisser out of ones comofrtable chair, while writing notes with a fountain pen into a latte-stained Moleskine, but Winning is Winning and at the end of the day that's what there is to it a sport, if you win. :) No matter how hard one tries to build a CV of "holes spotted" in the prospects to be able to grandstand later on if they fail to become dominant champions, even when they at some point lose - you spent a significant amount of your time to a completely meaningless futile effort instead of enjoying the violence and carnage. And for what? Some momentarily posing as a "hype train delrailer" on a karate forum.

Not that we should even give the OP that much thought. He's the buffoon behind the insanity that was the "baby" post about Grasso. He's way beyond the limits of being even a Sausage Carius.
 
Val got beat by Santos. So Erin will have an easier time vs a bum like Val.
 
sfer1 said:
Santos was comfortably winning the fight until she attempted a takedown, Erin rebounded against the fence and was fortunate to land on top. It was sheer luck on Erin's side what changed the outcome of the fight. Santos, who was returning from injury and hadn't fought in 14 months, gassed out getting back up. It was a different fight after that. If Santos hadn't attempted that takedown, she would have probably won with ease. Outclassed, my ass. Erin didn't do much to win the fight and won by wall and stall against a gassed opponent. Erin's striking looked like crap and she couldn't score a single takedown. She's only 24 and has a lot of room to improve, but didn't earn herself a title shot with that completely unimpressive performance.
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Even if Taila didn't attempt a takedown she still would've been bullied in the clinch to the brink of exhaustion. Taila should've been strongest in that position due to her physicality and kickboxing skills but she did get outworked and outclassed by the grappler who had on paper worse striking, wrestling, and power. I agree Erin looks funny when she strikes, but she was snapping Taila's head with jabs in R3 and teeing off on her face with funny looking 1-2s before darting back out of range like a ninja. It was a fun fight.
 
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