Rose Namajunas Boxing Skills

[RAFI BOMB]

First of all Rose deserves a ton of respect for her growth as a fighter. She has improved her overall skill exponentially from when she first fought in the octagon and she seems to be making major improvements each fight. Also Trevor Wittman deserves a ton of respect for his quality of coaching and game planning.

I was really impressed with Rose's boxing skills in her last fight. She had very fluid movement, she was attacking at angles, she feinted well. She was slipping and parrying the majority of Joanna's punches and looked really smooth doing it. As someone who watches, trains and studies boxing I found her impressive from a pure boxing perspective. This fight also demonstrated to me that many boxing techniques can in fact carryover into mma.

It will be interesting to see if more mma fighters start using pure boxing techniques and start incorporating them into their training and fighting. Also I would be interested to know some of the subtle adjustments that Trevor Wittman utilizes to help facilitate the success of boxing techniques in mma.

Overall Rose looks very skilled and it will be interesting to watch her grow as a fighter.

 

[ortizgnp]

Once ever.

 

[DrunkMonkMeth]

First of all Rose deserves a ton of respect for her growth as a fighter. She has improved her overall skill exponentially from when she first fought in the octagon and she seems to be making major improvements each fight. Also Trevor Wittman deserves a ton of respect for his quality of coaching and game planning.

I was really impressed with Rose's boxing skills in her last fight. She had very fluid movement, she was attacking at angles, she feinted well. She was slipping and parrying the majority of Joanna's punches and looked really smooth doing it. As someone who watches, trains and studies boxing I found her impressive from a pure boxing perspective. This fight also demonstrated to me that many boxing techniques can in fact carryover into mma.

It will be interesting to see if more mma fighters start using pure boxing techniques and start incorporating them into their training and fighting. Also I would be interested to know some of the subtle adjustments that Trevor Wittman utilizes to help facilitate the success of boxing techniques in mma.

Overall Rose looks very skilled and it will be interesting to watch her grow as a fighter.

Honestly is rare to see that much improvement for mma fighters.. especially the women.. so yah im impressed by her.

 

[Thunderchild]

Honestly is rare to see that much improvement for mma fighters.. especially the women.. so yah im impressed by her.

She's only 25 years old. Young fighters improve, but I am impressed by her too.

 

[SugarKrok]

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[reddhelium]

First of all Rose deserves a ton of respect for her growth as a fighter. She has improved her overall skill exponentially from when she first fought in the octagon and she seems to be making major improvements each fight. Also Trevor Wittman deserves a ton of respect for his quality of coaching and game planning.

I was really impressed with Rose's boxing skills in her last fight. She had very fluid movement, she was attacking at angles, she feinted well. She was slipping and parrying the majority of Joanna's punches and looked really smooth doing it. As someone who watches, trains and studies boxing I found her impressive from a pure boxing perspective. This fight also demonstrated to me that many boxing techniques can in fact carryover into mma.

It will be interesting to see if more mma fighters start using pure boxing techniques and start incorporating them into their training and fighting. Also I would be interested to know some of the subtle adjustments that Trevor Wittman utilizes to help facilitate the success of boxing techniques in mma.

Overall Rose looks very skilled and it will be interesting to watch her grow as a fighter.

well said. while i dont consider her win in the first fight a fluke ko, i did not expect her to dominate in the striking dept for a full 25 minutes in the rematch. more importantly, she never really made much of an effort to get the fight to the ground- her clear area of expertise.

i suspect her age/length of time training mma has a lot to do with it. get em young enough and they can master several skills.

 

[DrunkMonkMeth]

She's only 25 years old. Young fighters improve, but I am impressed by her too.

Mm i find alot of mma guys do improve.. but they dont improve there overall game and skillsets..

 

[Frozen Sea]

Training with Valentina will do that to ya




"remember this picture next time you see us with our belts!"

One down, one more to go.

 

[Psychojoe86]

Now she will move on and be tested in the grappling departments against Andrade and others, where we already know she has dangerous subs. But can she keep up the pace in that area in championship fights as well? The division returns to the wild Wild West

 

[RAFI BOMB]

Mm i find alot of mma guys do improve.. but they dont improve there overall game and skillsets..

I wonder if that is due to the way they train. I could see some fighters getting complacent and not learning new skills. Do they find better coaches and sparring partners? If they are trying to improve their striking do they look for reputable boxing and muay thai coaches as well as spar with professional boxing and muay thai fighters. Also do they train year round or do they just train when they have a fight signed? It may be an actual limitation that causes fighters to not improve their skills or it could be poor choices.

 

[shertardinho]

well put TS
no discussion

 

[maxi diablo]

She's almost the perfect boxer in wmma.

 

[Char Jawz]

I love Rose, but I think when she fights Karolina again, we'll really see how much she has improved since their first meeting. I think Rose takes a UD in a 5 rounder, based on what I witnessed Saturday night.

 

[RAFI BOMB]

Now she will move on and be tested in the grappling departments against Andrade and others, where we already know she has dangerous subs. But can she keep up the pace in that area in championship fights as well? The division returns to the wild Wild West

I thought Gadelha was moving was moving to flyweight. That basically leaves Andrade as the real threat. Andrade is very powerful but she isn't overly technical on the feet. I wonder how that fight would play out. Could Rose stick and move and frustrate Andrade as she tries to catch her? If Andrade gets her down can Rose pull off a submission? How would Rose deal with the slams and ground and pound of Andrade?

 

[det_regnar_på_vår_kärlek]

Eleven looks great striking in open space, it's the clinch that seems to be her main problem.

 

[RAFI BOMB]

Training with Valentina will do that to ya




"remember this picture next time you see us with our belts!"

One down, one more to go.

I forgot about that. That was huge for Rose. Shevchenko is very talented and technical. That probably helped Rose a lot with her boxing because in sparring with Shevchenko she would have been lit up for leaving openings. That likely plays a huge role in adapting boxing for mma. By sparring with elite kickboxers it can help to understand and read opponents and to learn the hard way where you are leaving openings.

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

She's only 25 years old. Young fighters improve, but I am impressed by her too.

Up to 24 seems to be the age when you make quantum leaps in your advancement. Obviously, guys like wrestlers make improvements once they learn stand up even at a later age, but when you look at guys like Jones or Max, they pretty much peak at 25.

 

[RAFI BOMB]

Eleven looks great striking in open space, it's the clinch that seems to be her main problem.

Good point. That is definitely an area where she could still improve. That is an interesting area to train. Pure boxing does actually have a lot of techniques for dealing with the clinch and creating openings to land punches. But a fighter in mma should also learn a combination of muay thai, greco roman and maybe sambo techniques as well to master the clinch.

 

[egk]

I thought Rose's boxing looked way better even since Karolina and that's not that long ago. The only thing i'm wondering is if she looked so good simply because she's JJ's kroptonite. This could be a classic example of styles making fights. She made JJ look one-dimensional and Rose was better in that single dimension. JJ was better standing than everyone else she fought before but was also great at getting back to her feet or stopping takedowns. Rose hasn't had to show that yet.

 

[Prince Nephilim]

She's perhaps the most improved women fighter ever

Never thought she could beat JJ, let alone twice...let alone in damn near pure striking matches at that!