Blanchfield's striking has improved significantly

[blaseblase]

I thought she lost the first two rounds to Rose but she absolutely held her ground in the standup and looked nothing like the fighter Manon styled on. Those were competitive rounds that were entirely on the feet, Rose should have whooped her there but she didn't. She clearly worked a lot on that aspect of her game. Erin is still super young too, she's only going to get better from here. I don't know if she beats Manon in a rematch but I think she's the future of the division and will hold the title at some point.

 

[oski]

Blanchfield's striking has improved significantly​

 

[fortheo]

She looks slow as molasses and has next to zero explosiveness or pop behind her shots, but she has a great chin, volume, variety of strikes, determination and good grappling.

She still has a ways to go with her striking and wrestling set ups, though. I hope she keeps improving

 

[aerius]

The style matchup made her look better than she actually is. Rose has always sucked at defending low kicks and body strikes and Erin just happened to throw a bunch of kicks at her at all levels. Rose defended the head kicks just fine but she got hit clean with almost every low and body kick Erin threw at her. Also, Rose has always had trouble with pressure fighters as well so once Erin started going at her she started having a lot more success. Who knew that exploiting known weaknesses works?

 

[markys00]

The style matchup made her look better than she actually is. Rose has always sucked at defending low kicks and body strikes and Erin just happened to throw a bunch of kicks at her at all levels. Rose defended the head kicks just fine but she got hit clean with almost every low and body kick Erin threw at her. Also, Rose has always had trouble with pressure fighters as well so once Erin started going at her she started having a lot more success. Who knew that exploiting known weaknesses works?

Clearly not anyone else in the ufc..

 

[NoSmilez]

Nah it's the same thing. She fought the same way when she did amateur MT. She might have more volume back then. She is just not very athletic but she is tough and will throw back.

 

[bjjwar]

She looks slow as molasses and has next to zero explosiveness or pop behind her shots, but she has a great chin, volume, variety of strikes, determination and good grappling.

She still has a ways to go with her striking and wrestling set ups, though. I hope she keeps improving

Slow as molasses is an understatement. She’ll never be a good striker, she’ll always be this boring point fighter who couldnt hurt a fly…

 

[MEAN357]

People actually watch WMMA?

 

[RockyLockridge]

She looks slow as molasses and has next to zero explosiveness or pop behind her shots, but she has a great chin, volume, variety of strikes, determination and good grappling.

She still has a ways to go with her striking and wrestling set ups, though. I hope she keeps improving

TBH she kinda reminds me of Pena. slow, sloppy striking, takes shots till she brute forces a take down and smothers for a while.

she's 25, she has a lot of time. a lot of upside.

 

[CatchtheseHands]

She didn't really do anything different here than with Manon tbh. It's just what she normally does worked better against Rose than Manon cause Rose doesn't have the strength or stopping power of Manon, Erin was able to just walk through her strikes once she figured out she could.

 

[joy2day]

She has improved her striking over her last 3-4 fights. She will need to continue to improve and also improve her TDs to be a champ. Even old Valentina might be too much for her right now; Val has quality striking and would be hard to TD. Erin could get there though.

 

[laleggenda27]

Nah.

Blanchfiled is painfully slow, her footwork is terrible, and her technique is non-existent. She moves like someone who's been training for a couple months max.

She survives on the feet because: (1) she's tough as nails; and (2) people are worried about her takedowns.

 

[xhaydenx]

Her striking was as shit as ever. It just worked better after 2.5 rounds when Rose slowed down because then she could bully her.

 

[Elegant]

Erin Blanchfield is arguably the #2 Flyweight in the world rn

She had an off night vs her worst stylistic matchup vs Fiorot but I think she wins the rematch every time. She literally gets better every fight

Her being champ is inevitable

 

[MigitAs]

What she lacks in technical ability/skill and power in her striking, she makes up for with her grit/tenacity/toughness. She beat Rose almost by just being the badder bitch; not being afraid to own the centre, or put her opponent on the back foot (even when disadvantaged!). I’ve been really impressed with Erin and look forward to her next fight. Only a matter of time until she is undisputed imo.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

Her striking looked better, but it’s because Fiorot is a different kind of animal than Namajunas…

Don’t forget Blanchfield’s striking looked good against Andrade as well, but Andrade is also a smaller fighter who does her best work on her front foot…

Fiorot, on the other hand, has a more apparent size advantage over Blanchfield than both Andrade and Namajunas, and fights very well while moving backwards. She also seemed to be the stronger fighter in the clinch. I think Blanchfield wasn’t able to take Fiorot down, and the only time the fight went to the floor was because Fiorot took it there.

A rematch with Fiorot would probably look exactly like their first fight. She’s just a bad matchup, stylistically, for Blanchfield.

 

[Mammothman]

I want to see her vs Alexa while Val and Fiorot fight for the belt.

 

[Tapatio]

That pluggy little woman couldn't punch her way out of a wet paper bag

 

[DanDragon Machi]

She reminds me a worse version of Felicia Spencer. Felicia delivered great fights at least, Enrin is just boring

 

[MigitAs]

The style matchup made her look better than she actually is. Rose has always sucked at defending low kicks and body strikes and Erin just happened to throw a bunch of kicks at her at all levels. Rose defended the head kicks just fine but she got hit clean with almost every low and body kick Erin threw at her. Also, Rose has always had trouble with pressure fighters as well so once Erin started going at her she started having a lot more success. Who knew that exploiting known weaknesses works?

You’re basically describing Rose as Cowboy Cerrone here lol