Julianna Pena

He states the pick plainly ('I'm taking Juliana Pena') but frames it as an upset she is 'supposed to lose', saying only that she 'could pull' it off.

He insists she is the sharper striker here even though public opinion favors her opponent, crediting her pressure, her output and her simple, repeatable combinations, plus genuine toughness in exchanges. Her ground game is good rather than elite: she can get takedowns and grinds hard on top, often forcing a back-take into a finishing choke, though he notes she has come undone before against serious submission specialists. Pace, not grappling, is her stated route to the win.

TITLE FIGHT, re-verified rather than taken as clean on the strength of a plain name: Pennington is named outright in cleanly-tagged segments ('I'm gonna take Pennington'), and that support (her cage wrestling, cage push, and dirty boxing) is drawn only from correctly-tagged material -- none of it leans on the earlier mistagged background segments (see review_flags). The grade sits at lean rather than clear because the analyst calls it a close fight he can't bring himself to bet, and frames his own pick as conditional on Pennington actually landing her cage-control gameplan.

Her best weapon is named directly as her pace: a fast, forward, high-volume pressure game built on basic but effective combinations, backed by durability (rarely finished by strikes). Her grappling is solid rather than top tier -- decent takedowns, heavy ground-and-pound volume, and a rear naked choke that the analyst notes, almost to his own surprise, accounts for more of her wins than any other method.