Manon Fiorot takes decision over Katlyn Chookagian.
Lackluster.
These two had a lot of the same issues that Grasso and Araujo had a week ago, and honestly that a lot of the women’s flyweight division has. Including Valentina. There is no manipulation of rhythm and space in exchanges. These two threw from the edge of range and then the exchange would just end. Sometimes Katlyn would land first, other times it was Fiorot. Lots of one and dones (not in terms of volume of strikes but combos). And since neither was comfortable being in range, they ended up coming up short or firing from too far away and giving the opponent time to react.
In that third round, Fiorot threw a 3-2 that came up short. Chookagian went to answer and instead was cut off by a long side kick from Fiorot. Fiorot escaped unharmed but it wasn’t really a big scoring shot so much as a defensive maneuver. And Fiorot kind of had to throw it cause she was out of position. Now what if she had thrown the 3-2 with the knowledge that Chook would try to follow her back and instead tied up in the clinch? Or just fired another big left hand as Chook was stepping in. Those are the types of exchanges we are missing at 125lbs. Instead we got Fiorot and Chookagian trying to play hard tag from range but missing cause both were too uncomfortable to go beyond the initial exchange.
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