Okay so searching “Corinne Laframboise injury” because she withdrew from DWCS last year and hasn’t fought since turned up… a PREGNANCY! Lol! Kind of injury? Turns out she also had a sprained ankle and an ear injury, too, at some stage. Anyway…
That now means it’s 2.5 years since 35 year old Laframboise has fought, and since she went 4-1 in UAE Warriors. Her record in Canada was much less impressive where she was losing to mediocre opposition including current BKFC fighter Jade Masson-Wong who really isn’t very good, but her last two defeats came to current UFC fighters Jamey-Lyn Horth and Manon Fiorot – both 3rd round finishes.
Laframboise is an okay Jiu Jitsu type with okay boxing and okay takedowns. She starts hot, but that doesn’t last long. She even started hot against Fiorot and just started hammering her a bit like a that Takayama-Frye fight lol. Fiorot just used all her physical skills to stop Laframboise’s aggression and pressure. In another fight she had to escape a Malin Hermansson R1 standing RNC by slamming herself (and her opponent) back first into the mat. Fun, but not overly impressive. She seems shorter than her 5’5 she’s claiming, somehow. She has displayed good conditioning in her UAE Warriors run and that helped her a lot, especially given the pressure I just mentioned. She will chain submissions when she’s on top, where she’s definitely better. She’s nothing special from her back but will at least be active. The time out and pregnancy is presumed to impact her somewhat. [This is WAY too much about this fighter, sorry]
Caliari fought in Invicta once, losing to Kay Hansen before Kay’s UFC run – that was back in 2019. She’s only fought 3 times in MMA since then. Caliari has fought in Muay Thai, too, and you can see that in her striking stance. Expect kicks that don’t seem particularly effective. Kay Hansen swamped Caliari pretty easily in R1 of their fight, and I don’t like how that looked. She did show toughness and fought through some tough situations like face cranks and whatever before eventually getting up and still looking pretty fresh. She then, for some reason, took Hansen down, I guess just to show she could. Ultimately, Caliari was just not as good as Hansen on the ground, and Hansen eventually finished.
I think that’s kinda how this will look. Caliari is game, but her kicking game won’t be much use if Laframboise is still closing the distance like she used to. Laframboise will shortly look for a takedown, probably get it, maybe lose control of Caliari a couple of times, before finishing with a submission in R2 or R3. Seems a fairly straightforward call. NOTE: they both tapped Carolina Jimenez, but Laframboise did it in R1, Caliari did it in R2. Kinda use that as the Tale of the Tape, Caliari plays a lot of ground game when people aren’t enjoying getting kicked, she doesn’t seem capable of stopping it, and she even engages in it – despite not being particularly good at it. Wildcards, obviously, are Corinne’s age and time on the shelf, if she’s a lot slower, she could get lit up on the feet, but absolutely nothing suggests Caliari has really done anything too impressive to close the initial gap in quality.
