Cortavious Romious

A direct, unhedged commitment to Lee built on one specific weakness he identifies in Romious (passivity once taken down) with nothing voiced against the win itself.

A shorter fighter with a reach disadvantage who is still a fair striker, moving forward with a quick one-two punch combo and real pop, including a heavy kick to the leg -- though he throws it without protecting himself, which has gotten him dropped before. His grappling includes well-linked takedown entries, solid scrambling, and a choke-into-armbar sequence off the back the analyst likes. His flaw, as described, is that he doesn't fight back much from underneath, which the analyst thinks gets him smothered here.

Names Bolanos as the pick, explicitly addressing and downplaying Romious's takedown path (saying it 'isn't a worry' since Bolanos isn't shooting takedowns on him) rather than leaving it unrebutted; expects Bolanos to land big shots and finish via decision or TKO.

A UFC-debuting forward-pressure striker who throws a fast one-two and a heavy leg kick, but the leg kick is thrown without setup and leaves him open to counters; his power striking is otherwise good. On the ground he is the far better grappler of the two, with good scrambles, the ability to chain takedowns, and a skillful rear-naked-to-armbar sequence. His one real hole is a willingness to stay passive off his back once there, though the analyst does not expect that to be tested in this fight.

No winner is named anywhere in this chapter. It opens and ends mid-sentence and cuts off mid-reasoning on this fighter's own leg-kick risk, so there is no stated conviction to grade -- the floor rung reflects an absent pick, not a hedge on one actually made.

Cortavious Romious (7-1, 4-1 in his last five) is read as the shorter, shorter-armed man in this pairing (5'4", 67" reach), which the analyst frames as a real disadvantage he has to work around. His own current assessment calls him a decent striker, crediting forward pressure and a quick combination plus a leg kick described as heavy, but flags that those kicks are left poorly set up and sometimes thrown with no disguise at all, calling it a genuine problem in this particular matchup. The board separately credits a varied grappling game -- blending wrestling and jiu-jitsu, chaining takedowns, scrambling well, and one sequence finishing from a rear-naked-choke into an armbar -- with a noted weakness of being less active off his back. The chapter cuts off mid-sentence just as the analyst begins explaining why the leg-kick habit is dangerous here, so that reasoning is incomplete.