Voted finish by Kayla (shocked people think Amanda sitting on a couch for years will be the same)
Voted decision by Hernandez (and with it the onset of "he was never that good" talk relative to Sean). Sean is coming out of his prime / likely headed for gatekeeper status within the next two years.
Can we add the option that should be available for all wmma polls?
"Nobody really cares for this at all. It isn't valid entertainment for grown adults. Please cut the women asap and fill those slots with the young crushers we're never having a chance to see. Nothing fucks up a card more than a wmma 5 round co-main."
Only time I thought Nunes would lose was against Cyborg and she ended that quickly
Kayla is just a different beast with her grappling and control. And if she can take Nunes best shots as well, this fight will be over very soon for the Lioness
Win or lose, this is a dangerous fight for a retired champion and Nunes will have my respect regardless
If Kayla wins, let her fight Val. I don’t want to see a Val/Nunes trilogy because if it’s another close fight, Amanda will win by being the aggressor. Then we gotta hear Val crying about Amanda’s nose being red again. LOL
I like kayla but i just dont buy into the amanda is past it opinion, i think the time off while still training will reinvigorate her.
Skill wise once she stuffs a few tds kayla cant stand with her so rd 3 or 4 tko/ko and still WGOAT.
If the time off hasn't affected Amanda and Kayla's weight cut goes fine, I think she'll win most of the rounds. If Amanda hasn't lost a step, then she will be back on top.
Totally missed that you mentioned Fluffy/Strickland in the OP.
Strickland's defensive grappling is chronically underrated* and it's difficult to outwork and out-volume him. He has never struggled with cardio. Anthony would certainly have his hands full with him.
That being said, Sean has seemed a bit mentally checked out ever since the DDP saga so I'm not sure if he's in the right headspace to win a wrestle-heavy war against a dog like Fluffy who's incredibly difficult to look good against. I could see Sean getting a bit lackadaisical and coasting to a narrow Decision loss while Nicksick is in the corner screaming at him about "Optics!" and trying to match Fluffy's level of activity. It also doesn't help that Sean doesn't really have the finishing potential to keep a guy like Anthony honest. Fluffy has shown the ability to eat clean shots to the head and still pressure while Strickland himself is a bit pillow-fisted. Sean also doesn't tend to invest heavily in body punches, which would pay dividends against Hernandez (who shown a tendency to get hurt by body shots, especially early in fights). Sean's front kick does target the body and might be of some use... but he employs it more as a push/teep for distance management and idle point-scoring and has never really shown the willingness or ability to throw a snappy front kick that digs into the body and hurts the other guy a la Alexander Volkov. I think you need the latter to really make Fluffy take notice. It's also worth noting that body kicks grant Fluffy another potential takedown entry if he catches one (though front kicks are harder to counter than round kicks in this regard).
While I don't think Fluffy is an elite striker, he's no fish out of water, either. He's a very confident and capable pressure-boxer who builds as a fight goes on. He doesn't have a lot of pop in his hands, but he is nasty inside the pocket or the clinch and I liked the recent addition of low kicks against Dolidze.
I'm favoring Hernandez, but I don't think he dominates or stops Sean unless it's through something wonky like a doctor's stoppage or whatever. Probably a tough, closely-contested fight that goes to the cards and narrowly favors Fluffy while Sean and his team rages.
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Sean has never really been convincingly wrestlefucked. You could name Kamaru Usman back in 2017 at best. But even then, Strickland made Kamaru go 2 for 8 on his TD attempts -- his problem was that he had no get-up game and got controlled for long periods upon getting taken down and also left himself wide open for Kamaru's big shots upstairs. And this was a Welterweight Strickland who by his own admission had previously never dedicated any amount of time to MMA wrestling during his training camp; he always believed his BJJ Black Belt and stand-up were all he needed and basically attempted to do a "crash course" of wrestling while preparing for Kamaru. After that Usman fight, he fought 13 opponents who attempted to take him down a combined 24 times. Care to guess how many times he got taken down in that stretch? Just once, by Abus Magomedov -- who didn't accrue so much as thirty seconds of control time before Strickland popped back up to his feet. People mention Dricus taking him down multiple times, but Dricus is also the same dude who outgrappled Robert Whittaker despite his reputation for elite TDD and was also the first to take down Khamzat. It's worth noting that despite all his TDs, Dricus managed absolutely zero sustained top control against Sean and didn't really accomplish anything with those TDs. Sean trains at Xtreme Couture which is one of the most wrestling-heavy camps in the game right now.
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Amanda lost to this complete boob xx Kayla is going to knock her out DEAD 
