Highlight on Women’s Fights

Early Prelims

Alexandra Albu vs. Emily Whitmire

This fight should be fun to watch. See the tale of the tape here: https://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-phoenix-2019#7640

Check out MMA Junkie’s article on Emily here: https://mmajunkie.com/2019/02/ufc-on-espn-1-emily-witmire-waitress-job

Prelims

Ashlee Evans Smith vs. Andrea Lee

This is a fight between number 11 and 13 and therefore I’m really looking forward to seeing this one! See the tale of the tape here: https://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-phoenix-2019#7627

Main Card

Cortney Casey vs. Cynthia Calvillo

This fight pits the number 11 vs. 12 strawweight fighters against each other. Again, really looking forward to it. Based on the weigh-in, both fighters are pumped and ready to entertain in the octagon. See the tale of the tape here: https://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-phoenix-2019#7641

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I’ll start by giving fight nights an overall grade, so to speak. The grade is on the A, B, C, D scale and it is based on : 1) Excitement, 2) Elements of Surprise, and 3) Well Matched.

This fight night was a B – in my opinion. Now: disclaimer that I missed some of the preliminary fights and started watching around Alves/Griffen, but from what I saw, the fights were fast, somewhat unsurprising, and evenly matched. So, with that in mind, I’ll go into some specifics… Continue reading “Fight Night 144: Review” →

Tonight is UFC Fight Night 144 and the inaugural blog post for Girl Talk MMA. On deck this evening, there are 6 main fights and 7 preliminary fights. Fight location is Brazil. Note that if you want to watch all of the fights, the prelims start at 5pm EST.

Highlight on Women’s Bouts

The preliminary fight is between Mara Romero Borella from Italy and Taila Santos from Brazil. This is Taila’s debut fight and thus, anything can happen! Borella, who is ranked #12, lost her last fight but she has a pretty good overall record of 12 wins, 5 losses, and 1 no contest. Taila doesn’t have a UFC record (as this is her first fight) and she will likely have the crowd on her side. So, this could go either way, in my opinion. See the full side by side stats on the UFC site. Continue reading “The Beginning: Fight Night 144 – February 2, 2019” →