I had been arguing online with random guys and with my friends about the girl fight on the card. Everybody is confidently picking winners and even worse - betting on this fight. I say avoid this mess! Here me out why:
Cynthia is not good standing up. Too much empty movement and hitting the air. But in women's divisions (and not only) this is often rewarded by the judges. The fights look different live and often judges can not see which hits are connecting and which are not, and often they give the fight to the one fighter who is at least visibly more active. Also, Poliana is chucking those kicks without a care in the world. Calvillo's TD game is almost excluisively catching kicks and single legs. Or if you take her down she scramble and take your back or takes mount. Shitty women fight IQ is a consern for me. Poliana is going to throw a naked kick, like she always do, Calvillo catches it and it is a mess from then on. Even if Calvillo could not take her one time down, who is to say she does not win a sloppy kickboxing fight? Poliana is a mess on the defence, I dare to say a thrash. And she is too easily pinned to the fence. This fight could go either way, this is a fight to stay away for beting! And what if Calvillo looked like she was about to die on the scale? Come one, didn't we learn the lesson with the scale thing. This is not mean anything. All fighters look bad when dehydrated. Some worse than others. When they put back the liquids in their body they are fine. She could lose this fight of course but I won't solely because of the cutting weight issue. I can give you a lot of examples of fighters look bad on the scales and win. Jimmy Rivera comes to mind. He was in very rough shape vs Almeida on the scales and won.