Erin Blanchfield needs to change gyms

[Royce's Gi]

I'm sure she could lose some weight and gain some muscle/strength

 

[jeskola]

I think her current gym has taken her as far as they can. Her corner advice was primarily about striking. Their only wrestling advice was to get her opponent against the cage. They seem to be trying to make her a striker and she's just not. A good gym needs to recognize where her strengths lie and gameplan a way to get the fight there.

She has the intangibles to be a great fighter. She's physically strong, has natural grappling ability, chin, tenacity, cardio and heart. Those are the hardest things to improve. What she lacks is striking (particularly defense) and a way to consistently get the fight to the ground. She didn't try a double or a single until round 4 and she only tried it once half heartedly. 5 rounds and only 3 takedown attempts. That's absolutely ludicrous. Her only wrestling move is to clinch her opponent against the cage and try to wrestle the fight to the ground from there. AKA would be perfect for her.

The good thing is she's very young and has a lot of time to improve. But imo now is the time to make the change.

agreed. Shades of Jorge Gurgel wanting to strike even though he could win on the ground.

 

[BangBang]

I think her current gym has taken her as far as they can. Her corner advice was primarily about striking. Their only wrestling advice was to get her opponent against the cage. They seem to be trying to make her a striker and she's just not. A good gym needs to recognize where her strengths lie and gameplan a way to get the fight there.

She has the intangibles to be a great fighter. She's physically strong, has natural grappling ability, chin, tenacity, cardio and heart. Those are the hardest things to improve. What she lacks is striking (particularly defense) and a way to consistently get the fight to the ground. She didn't try a double or a single until round 4 and she only tried it once half heartedly. 5 rounds and only 3 takedown attempts. That's absolutely ludicrous. Her only wrestling move is to clinch her opponent against the cage and try to wrestle the fight to the ground from there. AKA would be perfect for her.

The good thing is she's very young and has a lot of time to improve. But imo now is the time to make the change.

It’s a crime for someone so gifted so early on in her life to look like she looked up how to throw a punch on YouTube the am of the fight.

 

[CPH]

I really don't see what fans expected her to do in there. This was a terrible matchup, so even the best advice (punch your way in and try to grapple) sounded like stupid advice as she kept getting tagged coming in and tossed around like a child when she managed to get into clinch range. Fiorot has man strength and dwarfs Blanchfield. To a grappler, this is an insurmountable problem ..and Blanchfield still kept trying and got close with the guillotine and head kick, simply because she never broke and called it a day.

 

[Doughie99]

Fiorot to me seems like a slightly (only slightly) down scaled Holly holm.

Man strong, which I'm sure comes as a shock to opponents, keeps at distance, mainly a striker, powerful in the clinch etc etc.

Except Fiorot is less irritating than holm in that she actually gets close enough to hot the opponent instead of being ultra conservative / timid as holm tends to be.

I'm quite keen to see Fiorot vs either Shrvchenko OR Grasso. Fiorot needs to improve in some areas for sure but she is a big strong powerful fighter and a tough night for anyone.

Would have liked some more aggression from Manin in that last fight, some more balls-out attempts at a KO..... but fair enough Blanchfield is very resilient.