chuckjerky
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Warning: It's fucking long, so yeah...
First, its no secret Holly striking is light years ahead of her division. It's proven that it's dangerous to rush towards her on the feet, but she wasn't that dangerous when being the aggressor as seen in her first 2 ufc fights.
So just let her be the aggressor! Keep backing up the whole fight carlos condit style and be the countering one. Keep circling out and not let her corner you. Minimise as much damage as possible on the feet with her.
Once she starts rushing in and yelling(as she has done in her fights before), time for the perfect double and take her down. Even if she stuffs it it will make her aware and not strike as freely as she would. Take down threat can help closer the striking gap between the wrestler and the striker. Sometimes wrestlers even outstrike a better striker because of take down threats!
Once you get the takedown i don't know if holly's easy to hold down consider how big and strong she is. But i think you can always hit her when she scrambles up then shoot a double and charge her towards the cage. Then grinds her at the cage. Once she gets out reset to the original step and repeats everything again.
The key is:
-The narrower your striking gap is with her, the higher chance you can win(So there's no short cut)
-Have a very good double like gsp or mendes
-Have good top control
-Holly's mentality---we haven't seen her in any losing/being dominated situations so far and her mental toughtness is a question mark. Will she breaks after being constantly taken down and domimated on the ground?
-How good is her ground game?
Ronda isn't a wrestler and doesn't have good doubles or singles so holly can stuff her clinch throws doesn't nessasary mean she can stuff a wrestler's double as good, so don't blindly use the "she can stuff ronda's takedowns so she can stuff everyone's takedowns" argument
Holly hasn't show any holes in her game yet. And after the ronda fight everyone seems to think that she is an "unstoppable KO machine". But i believe she performed that well at the ronda fight was because ronda's agressive style worked right into holly's attacks and gave all the opportunites for holly to nail her hard.
That's my breakdown and yeah, props for reading it all
First, its no secret Holly striking is light years ahead of her division. It's proven that it's dangerous to rush towards her on the feet, but she wasn't that dangerous when being the aggressor as seen in her first 2 ufc fights.
So just let her be the aggressor! Keep backing up the whole fight carlos condit style and be the countering one. Keep circling out and not let her corner you. Minimise as much damage as possible on the feet with her.
Once she starts rushing in and yelling(as she has done in her fights before), time for the perfect double and take her down. Even if she stuffs it it will make her aware and not strike as freely as she would. Take down threat can help closer the striking gap between the wrestler and the striker. Sometimes wrestlers even outstrike a better striker because of take down threats!
Once you get the takedown i don't know if holly's easy to hold down consider how big and strong she is. But i think you can always hit her when she scrambles up then shoot a double and charge her towards the cage. Then grinds her at the cage. Once she gets out reset to the original step and repeats everything again.
The key is:
-The narrower your striking gap is with her, the higher chance you can win(So there's no short cut)
-Have a very good double like gsp or mendes
-Have good top control
-Holly's mentality---we haven't seen her in any losing/being dominated situations so far and her mental toughtness is a question mark. Will she breaks after being constantly taken down and domimated on the ground?
-How good is her ground game?
Ronda isn't a wrestler and doesn't have good doubles or singles so holly can stuff her clinch throws doesn't nessasary mean she can stuff a wrestler's double as good, so don't blindly use the "she can stuff ronda's takedowns so she can stuff everyone's takedowns" argument
Holly hasn't show any holes in her game yet. And after the ronda fight everyone seems to think that she is an "unstoppable KO machine". But i believe she performed that well at the ronda fight was because ronda's agressive style worked right into holly's attacks and gave all the opportunites for holly to nail her hard.
That's my breakdown and yeah, props for reading it all
