Melissa Croden

says she's covered everywhere but size

A good attacker who presses forward, works her jab, and stays very active with her feet, though the analyst also calls her striking itself not very good. Her real strength is the clinch and cage: very good control and good knees/elbows there, good grappling mostly against the cage, dirty boxing, and a pace that is hard to match. Rated as the more versatile, more skilled brawler overall, with a stated physical/size disadvantage against this specific opponent.

Firmly repeats the pick, naming Croden as his side, with no qualifier on the win itself.

A good striker whose game centers on forward pressure, a clean one-two built off the jab, and an active lead leg letting her kick without switching stance. Her standout trait is a hybrid clinch game the analyst grades separately from both striking and cage-wrestling -- good control there with very good knees and elbows -- on top of a good grappling/cage-push game featuring good grinding, dirty boxing, and very good ground-and-pound elbows once an opponent is down. The analyst calls the striking roughly even but gives Croden the edge anywhere the fight goes to the clinch or the mat, favoring her partly as the hometown fighter in this matchup.

says outright this fight 'could go either way' even after naming the pick

Her striking is graded good, though explicitly relative to a division the analyst rates as weak on the feet; she presses forward behind a decent jab, a basic combination and an active lead leg. Her real strength is the clinch and cage-pushing grind: good knees and elbows in tight, good dirty boxing, and she is credited with finishing her last fight via ground-and-pound elbows. Her pace is rated well specifically because she wears opponents down -- she may get outworked early but is expected to outwork them late.

Gives an explicit deciding mechanism -- the cage push -- as the decider, with no hedge on the win itself.

A good striker with a distinct, more distance-oriented style than Lisboa, working a strong jab and clean 1-2. Good in the clinch with knees, elbows and control. Her cage push is singled out by the analyst as what separates her grappling from Lisboa's -- she grinds opponents against the fence and follows with heavy ground-and-pound elbows once there.