WMMA Discussion #28

[Furious77]

What does this mean? Megan is training to become the face of the UFC's upcoming atomweight division?

Its just a cool little interview/backstory of Tatiana Suarez. I listened to it at work.

 

[Leek]

Invicta has been doing too much talking about past events. It’s going on three months since their last event, and no announcement of the next.

At this point I wouldn't be too distraught if Invicta quietly folded, it's 2012/2013

 

[leto1776]

Anelya Toktogonova is staying active early in her career. Just fought to a draw 10ndays against

 

[Askafan]

Ditcheva v Serrano anyone?

 

[PurpleStorm]

Friday August 4, 2023

[MMA] PFL 7: 2023 Playoffs
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Main Card – ESPN / ESPN+ – 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT
Preliminary Card – ESPN+ – 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT
Desiree Yanez vs. Lisa Mauldin
Chelsea Hackett vs. Ky Bennett

[VARIOUS] ONE Fight Night 13: Allazov vs. Grigorian
Bangkok, Thailand
Main Card – Prime Video – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
Anna Jaroonsak vs. Cristina Morales – Kickboxing

[MMA] LFA 164: Mazo vs. Lavado
El Paso, Texas, USA
Main Card – UFC Fight Pass – 11:00pm ET / 8:00pm PT
Sabina Mazo vs. Sandra Lavado
Preliminary Card – YouTube – 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT
Mihaela Keller vs. Nejra Repp

Saturday August 5

[MMA] CLOUT MMA 1
Warsaw, Poland
Main Card – iPPV – 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Ewa Wyszatycka vs. Paulina Hornik
Nikola Alokin vs. Monika Laskowska

[MMA] UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Font
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Main Card – ESPN / ESPN+ – 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT
Jéssica Andrade vs. Tatiana Suarez
Preliminary Card – ESPN / ESPN+ – 6:00pm ET / 3:00pm PT

[BOXING] Paul vs. Diaz
Dallas, Texas, USA
Main Card – iPPV (DAZN/ESPN+) – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT
Amanda Serrano vs. Heather Hardy
Shadasia Green vs. Olivia Curry
Preliminary Card – ESPN+ – 6:00pm ET / 3:00pm PT

Sunday August 6

[MMA] Combate Global: Mexico vs Spain
Miami, Florida, USA
Main Card – Paramount+ – 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT
Lucero Acosta vs. Silvia Juaneda

https://grabakahitman.com/

 

[Leek]

 

[thatdude21601]

I'm into both of these fighters. Probably favor Kim, but Grandjean is a tank.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

I totally forgot Andrade v Suarez was this weekend. I'm excited to see Suarez become a contender but I also feel bad if Jessica takes a third one sided beating in a row.

 

[PurpleStorm]

I've always liked both fighters. I'm picking Suarez by submission. She has looked healthy this week. Appears focused and on a mission. Her game plan is straightforward. Avoid haymakers, get Andrade to the ground and submit her.

 

[werepig]

this week: head says Suarez, heart says Andrade.

 

[PurpleStorm]

At this point I wouldn't be too distraught if Invicta quietly folded, it's 2012/2013

I love Invicta. Watch nearly every fight on every card. I want it to stay around and succeed. So many great fighters have started in Invicta. May it continue.

 

[Eater of Souls]

Suarez via TKO (GNP)

 

[teddy078]

Suarez's performace:

Bad:
She still has little to none striking skills, only throw some body kicks. With 4 inches reach advantage, she should have jabbed Andrade's face at will.
Bad takedown entries due to no striking skills.

Good:
She can stick to a gameplan. Circling out when Andrade got close and pulling down Andrade's head when Andrade rushed forward.
Her elite wrestling skills earned her takedowns despite bad takedown entries.

 

[werepig]

BE suggested suarez fight dern next, i like that
feel bad for jessica - hope she takes some time off and finds herself again.

 

[Askafan]

I'd be tempted to give Suarez an immediate title shot, but given her injury record you can see her picking up the belt then disappearing with an injury for a couple of years. Strawweight doesn't need more of that.

 

[Mittens]

Suarez needs to keep her body together until we get the china-fight done.

 

[Furious77]

BE suggested suarez fight dern next, i like that
feel bad for jessica - hope she takes some time off and finds herself again.

No way, it should be either Yan or a title shot.

 

[Xuh]

So is the moderation policy for this thread now 'softer than the softest corners of Reddit'? You'll be pleased to hear then that the best thing for me to do is not waste anyone's time posting in it any more - at all. Not even sure what was wrong with the last one.

See you around in the heavies,

 

[aerius]

I don't know who Tatiana's coaches are, but they're doing a hell of a job at developing her skills & overall style. One thing that stood out is how much she hits the body, besides the good solid round kicks she also used the front kick a lot to keep Jessica stuck on the outside. When Andrade tried to rush in she mixed things up and didn't react the same way every time, sometimes she backed her off with front kicks to the body, sometimes she circled away, and near the end of the round she stepped in with knees and went for clinches. Also, punching & framing off right after a kick to keep Jessica from rushing her while she's resetting, that's straight out of the Joanna & Valentina playbook.

The other key thing to me was that she keeps things simple and how everything fits together into her overall game. She fights the way a southpaw should; left kicks into the body all day with a good mix of round kicks and front kicks to keep the opponent guessing, and some left crosses to the face when she had a clean opening. All those strikes work off of each other since trying to defend one leaves openings for the others and Suarez was able to exploit that.

As for her wrestling & grappling, it's just too good for the other girls to deal with. She doesn't have the fastest shots but they're well timed and all she has to do is make contact to get the relentless wrestling chain started. Whether it's from a shot or the clinch she just has too many ways to tie up opponents & drag them to the ground, and once they're down it's just a nightmare. Very heavy top control game, smooth transitions from one position to the next, and she always seems a step or 2 ahead when setting up the subs. And if that wasn't bad enough, she's also gigantic and strong as fuck.

Hopefully she can stay healthy, if she does it's gonna be trouble for everyone at 115 and 125.

 

[Jackonfire]

So is the moderation policy for this thread now 'softer than the softest corners of Reddit'? You'll be pleased to hear then that the best thing for me to do is not waste anyone's time posting in it any more - at all. Not even sure what was wrong with the last one.

See you around in the heavies,

Certainly softer in the sense that when you made yet another unsubstantiated PED accusation against a fighter, you didn't receive an infraction. Definitely soft on my part, thats true. Its about the 1500th time you've done it over the past 20 years and you still pretend like you don't know what was wrong with your post.