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Don't know how anyone could have thought dobson she's litterally on the roster to take Ls.
Real easy to write this after the fact, isn't it?
For the record, I bet a modest amount on Mazo as an underdog, which partially made up for the small fortune I lost on Mazo against Moroz, but a number of excellent analysts and long-time, successful bettors I spoke with had money on Dobson, and their reasoning wasn't altogether wrong.
Mazo looked physically weak, slow, unable to defend takedowns, and unable to box with anyone close to her height against Moroz.
There were a lot of question marks around her. Deservedly so.
Dobson, for all her flaws, threw a far more competent, powerful right, whether a straight right, overhand right, or right hook, than anyone at 125 outside of Valentina Shevchenko and maybe Andrea Lee.
Nevermind that Dobson was close to beating Lauren Mueller, and a few members of the media even had her winning the fight.
It was also reasonable to believe that Dobson, with only 5 pro fights and 1.5 years since the last one, could have improved substantially. Or been able to implement a wrestling heavy gameplan.
I bet Mazo because I thought Dobson was very susceptible to kicks, refuses to pressure opponents which she would need to do, and because Mazo's jab is better and longer than Dobson's.
However, there was nothing supremely confident in my play, nor did I (and I daresay anyone) predicted Mazo to take Dobson down at will and beat the hell out of her with GNP, which was the main reason she dominated her so badly.
There was literally nothing to indicate Mazo would do so based on her last fights, where she avoids grappling and wrestling like the plague.
Everyone is a predicting savant AFTER the results are known. It's all so perfectly easy and obvious once you know what happened, and of course anyone who believed otherwise was an idiot!