Tina Black

He grades the fight phase by phase and comes out level on both -- the feet competitive, the floor competitive -- while handing the ground advantage to the other woman and the standing advantage to this one. The pick then turns entirely on where he expects the fight to spend its time rather than on who he thinks is the better fighter, and he says exactly that in the sentence he names her in.

A striker by preference who visits the mat only when it suits her. The analyst is explicit that she does not go hunting takedowns -- she has them available as a way of breaking up a rhythm, but what she wants is to stay upright and trade. Standing, he grades her a solid operator carrying genuine power: feints thrown constantly, sharp counter work, a jab she lands well, and body punching that hurts. He reads her as the physically stronger woman in the pairing and probably the better striker outright. The attribute he spends the longest on is patience, treated as a real flaw that is in the process of being corrected -- she used to wait too long, he blames some of her losses on exactly that, and the waiting has been getting shorter. Her grappling is credited but placed second here, and the shape of it is defensive: stopping entries and hurting people from the top rather than building position. His practical point about that defence is the interesting one -- an opponent's grappling grade is worth nothing if the opponent cannot get her to the floor to spend it. The pick that follows is about venue, not superiority.