Official Women's Division Discussion #27

[Eater of Souls]

@Eater of Souls do you have a take on the fight yet? Have you seen much of both fighters?

I have but not enough to yammer about it. Going to watch some videos later today.

 

[leto1776]

 

[leto1776]

 

[Xuh]

https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/10/9/21509569/carla-esparza-out-ufc-256-fight-amanda-ribas

...title shot incoming maybe?

some relief anyway, Ribas looked like a bad matchup to me.

As for Ribas.. perhaps she can fight someone with a number by their name to finally prove she should be ranked - Angela Hill perhaps, that would clearly be her toughest fight yet since she is ranked #13.

 

[PurpleStorm]

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 2020

[MMA] AFL: Valkyries - Barcelona, Spain
Main Card – iPPV (Fite.tv) – 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Audrey Kerouche vs. Micol di Segni
Emily Motta vs. Rita Marrero
Aitana Alvarez vs. Yamila Sanchez
Alice Michalkiewicz vs. Mireia García
Sabrina Bouttine vs. Andrea Meneses
Afra Lladó vs. Mariona Om
Alicia Lasheras vs. Marina Sanchez
Carmen López vs. Adriana Conde
Stefany Gonçalves vs. Sandra Ramiro

UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen
Abu Dhabi, Dubai, UAE
Main Card – ESPN+ – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
Preliminary Card – ESPN+ – 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT
Tracy Cortez vs. Stephanie Egger

https://grabakahitman.wordpress.com

 

[thatdude21601]

New favorite fight name; Vivi Muayded789 (replacing Jitti Muaythaiplaza2004). My username here is also based off of the default username that Yahoo gave me back in 2002.

 

[leto1776]

Interesting

 

[leto1776]

 

[Eater of Souls]

Not liking the "expected future inactivity" part. Of course, I am sure she dislikes it far more.

 

[Eater of Souls]

@Eater of Souls do you have a take on the fight yet? Have you seen much of both fighters?

Okay, I think Eggers has better "pure" grappling but from what I have seen so far she has not made the transition to MMA quite as well as some other grapplers. Cortez appears to apply her skill set a bit better but is probably at a distinct size disadvantage.
Probably turns into a shitty striking match so it may just be a toss-up.

 

[Eater of Souls]

Okay, I think Eggers has better "pure" grappling but from what I have seen so far she has not made the transition to MMA quite as well as some other grapplers. Cortez appears to apply her skill set a bit better but is probably at a distinct size disadvantage.
Probably turns into a shitty striking match so it may just be a toss-up.

Or not.

 

[Eater of Souls]

 

[Sakubaba]

Daiana Torquato x Sarah Frota (timestamped)

 

[leto1776]

 

[PurpleStorm]

Anyone who has trained or coached athletes: it blows my mind that fighters are often completely in the dark about the talents of their opponents going into a fight. Few other sports operate that way.

When I played soccer we wanted to know how good our opponents were - all their strengths and weaknesses - before a game. We weren't happy if we were blindsided during the match. Like 'Why didn't anyone tell us they have that left-footed phenom who scored the goal on us?'

 

[fifthletter]

I'm a believer in Tracy Cortez. In both of her fights in the ufc, her wrestling just looked so crisp, and she did it both times being the much smaller fighter. She doesn't look like she has bad hands either, meaning she's not slow or totally lost standing. It will be interesting to see her at flyweight. It makes that division pretty exciting and kind of underrated. I feel like she's like Brianna Van Buren, good athlete, good wrestling, decent hands, but just lacking size.

 

[Askafan]

Anyone who has trained or coached athletes: it blows my mind that fighters are often completely in the dark about the talents of their opponents going into a fight. Few other sports operate that way.

I think Cortez was saying that she knew Egger was a black belt in judo but was not aware of her black belt in bjj. So is Egger a bjj black belt? When I was looking her up before the fight I saw bjj sites saying Stephanie was a blue belt going into the Gabi contestant.

So I'm not surprised at Tracy's surprise, there's a lot of half truths about belts and the status of titles in mma.

 

[Eater of Souls]

I think Cortez was saying that she knew Egger was a black belt in judo but was not aware of her black belt in bjj. So is Egger a bjj black belt? When I was looking her up before the fight I saw bjj sites saying Stephanie was a blue belt going into the Gabi contestant.

So I'm not surprised at Tracy's surprise, there's a lot of half truths about belts and the status of titles in mma.

If she is it was not exactly obvious going off of last night's performance.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

Interesting to note, wish the ufc would do the same for nina. Give us a more accurate representative of the current top 10.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

It's the matchup I was hoping for should be good.