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Hesitation, footwork, and annoying jabs are the best recipe to frustrate Ronda. Test her aerobic conditioning and her patience. She doesn't seem like a patient woman, and I don't know whether or not she can chase for periods of time - its a different cardio. Does she shoot for takedowns, or just from the clinch - that's a big difference, too. Jones had a hard time with Gusto, and it was based on not clinching while eating jabs - he got desparate and started shooting, and his shot is not that practiced compared to his clinchwork.
I think this is a good matchup. There is literally no good matchup, but this is a style makes fights '?'
How exactly will hesitation help in that scenario? If Holm had amazing footwork, a fast and sharp jab that she could shoot out at every opening, that's another story.
But you add hesitation in the mix and shes mostly a deer in headlights providing ronda a perfect set up.
Not to mention holm hasn't demonstrated great footwork or even a great jab in UFC so far. She's looked pretty bad at creating and maintaining distance with her so called boxing skills.
I feel like people have this image of a highly skilled striker that they are projecting on holm. While in reality she hasn't displayed those skills in MMA.