How does Natalia Silva fare against Valentina?

[Kaiokenrye24]

I think Natalia’s style is unique and is still show improving. I don’t think Valentina can keep her down for prolonged periods of time.

Manon forced Valentina to use her striking, but it’s obvious if she fought Natalia she wouldn’t want to be one the feet against such a nimble and sharp striker despite her striking accolades. She panic wrestled when Alexa dropped her in the second fight. Thoughts?

 

[fortheo]

She'll do well. Val likes to tap from range and wait for someone to come in to counter them. Natalia has far more tools at range, though. Val's grappling would likely be shut down, too, as Natalia has shown to be next to impossible to take down lately. val might be able to do well in mid range, but I think Natalia's hand speed will help her hold her own there.

I favor Natalia

 

[KungFuCow]

She'll do well. Val likes to tap from range and wait for someone to come in to counter them. Natalia has far more tools at range, though. Val's grappling would likely be shut down, too, as Natalie has shown to be next to impossible to take down lately. val might be able to do well in mid range, but I think Natalia's hand speed will help her hold her own there.

I favor Natalia

Couldnt have summed it up better.

 

[joy2day]

Valentina wouldn't win against Silva or Ditcheva, she has gotten old.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Valentina wouldn't win against Silva or Ditcheva, she has gotten old.

Entropy: 10,672,097,652 - 0

 

[XociDe]

Do you really care?

 

[DiazSlap]

Do you really care?

Exactly, what are all these WMMA threads popping up all of a sudden?

Aunt Dana be paying people on here…

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Exactly, what are all these WMMA threads popping up all of a sudden?

Aunt Dana be paying people on here…

Yes, it's pushing your and Luffy's usual 5 threads a piece off the front page

 

[aerius]

She'll do well. Val likes to tap from range and wait for someone to come in to counter them. Natalia has far more tools at range, though. Val's grappling would likely be shut down, too, as Natalia has shown to be next to impossible to take down lately. val might be able to do well in mid range, but I think Natalia's hand speed will help her hold her own there.

I favor Natalia

I'm going to disagree with part of this. What tools does Natalia have at range that Valentina doesn't? Val has all the kicks that Natalia uses plus the superman punch to kick combos along with a better jab. Also, unlike Natalia's past opponents, she knows how to defend and punish kicks, take those away and Natalia's effectiveness goes down a lot. Mid range will come down to hand speed vs. defence, they'll start out about even with Silva gaining an advantage as the fight goes on, but Silva has no head movement or blocks so she's going to be a lot easier to hit clean.

Overall, I think it's about 50/50 unless Valentina falls off drastically which is entirely possible at her age.

 

[Dr. Rose]

I'm going to disagree with part of this. What tools does Natalia have at range that Valentina doesn't? Val has all the kicks that Natalia uses plus the superman punch to kick combos along with a better jab. Also, unlike Natalia's past opponents, she knows how to defend and punish kicks, take those away and Natalia's effectiveness goes down a lot. Mid range will come down to hand speed vs. defence, they'll start out about even with Silva gaining an advantage as the fight goes on, but Silva has no head movement or blocks so she's going to be a lot easier to hit clean.

Overall, I think it's about 50/50 unless Valentina falls off drastically which is entirely possible at her age.

great post. I put it 60-40 Val. People on here really sleep on her as a technical striker with serious experience. Outside Poatan, no one has the combat experience that Val has in this sport. Imo, Val only looses if she gets sloppy, like when she did the spinning kick at Grasso when she was not in the proper range (Looks great when that works, but Grasso was way to close to risk that kick, imo).

 

[R.N.J.]

Natalia Silva is pretty cute/hot thats all I know about it.

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

I think Natalia’s style is unique and is still show improving. I don’t think Valentina can keep her down for prolonged periods of time.

Manon forced Valentina to use her striking, but it’s obvious if she fought Natalia she wouldn’t want to be one the feet against such a nimble and sharp striker despite her striking accolades. She panic wrestled when Alexa dropped her in the second fight. Thoughts?

Valentina is better everywhere including the striking.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

She outpoints Shevchenko at her own game.

Which means..

Shevchenko will probably duck her, by calling out the SW Champion.

That went so well before. She’s fought two ex-SW.

But the last time she ducked a real challenge.

She ducked the rematch with Santos. And ducked the trilogy with Amanda.

And handpicked Grasso who was ranked 6th. The queen of arrogance tapped out.

Cosmic justice.

 

[fortheo]

I'm going to disagree with part of this. What tools does Natalia have at range that Valentina doesn't? Val has all the kicks that Natalia uses plus the superman punch to kick combos along with a better jab. Also, unlike Natalia's past opponents, she knows how to defend and punish kicks, take those away and Natalia's effectiveness goes down a lot. Mid range will come down to hand speed vs. defence, they'll start out about even with Silva gaining an advantage as the fight goes on, but Silva has no head movement or blocks so she's going to be a lot easier to hit clean.

Overall, I think it's about 50/50 unless Valentina falls off drastically which is entirely possible at her age.

Natalia has all the same kicks as Val does, except Natalia throws from both stances, and keeps a higher output with her kicks than val does. I do not see Val winning the kicking range battle as she usually does, which would be a rare scenario for val to find herself in. I really do think the speed of Silva is going to give val a lot of issues here, too, especially at val's age.

To be honest though, I'm not sure if this is the fight that's next for Val. They might do Zhang vs. Val.

 

[SuperNerd]

Whaa.. Whaa.. Whhaa..

Cosmic justice.

Keep waiting. You'll eventually get it, and you'll have a great day on Sherdog.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Exactly, what are all these WMMA threads popping up all of a sudden?

Aunt Dana be paying people on here…

Why does it bother you if other people talk about it???

 

[Thesnake101]

She'll do well. Val likes to tap from range and wait for someone to come in to counter them. Natalia has far more tools at range, though. Val's grappling would likely be shut down, too, as Natalia has shown to be next to impossible to take down lately. val might be able to do well in mid range, but I think Natalia's hand speed will help her hold her own there.

I favor Natalia

Honestly I heard this same stuff about the Manon matchup, especially about the grappling. Val is just too good to simply count out like that, regardless of how great the contenders look.

I will say Natalia has impressed me far more than Fiorot.

 

[Neck&Neck]

They should have a dance off

 

[fortheo]

Honestly I heard this same stuff about the Manon matchup, especially about the grappling. Val is just too good to simply count out like that, regardless of how great the contenders look.

I will say Natalia has impressed me far more than Fiorot.

We'll see, I've never been high on Manon and am shocked she made it as far as she has. She's big and physical, that's about her best asset.

 

[tritestill]

Valentina is running on thin ice, who knows if she will continue to show her age in her fights and get by someone barely who she would have walked through six years ago. Time is undefeated forever.