Forgot to watch the show, but from the Sherdog recap, the Esparza/Penne fight was mostly on the feet. Go figure.
Esparza got a good number of takedowns but she couldn't get to side control and she didn't want to hang out in Penne's guard. The fight was stood up the only time Esparza attempted to work ground and pound for any length of time from Penne's guard.
Esparza attempted to get to side control several times during her takedown attempts but Penne was too savy for that.
If you refer to Karolina title fights in KSW, KSW title fights are always 3-rounders with an eventual 4th round in case of draw.
I'm pretty sure that was something else. I don't have hard information on that and the post I saw was from a while ago. That's why I'm a little shy on making comments on the topic. I have a vague memory of an interview with her about her strength and conditioning that I saw some time ago now, heading towards two years.
Overall Kowalkiewicz seems to have been okay for cardio though with only her fight with Mizuki to suggest that she might tire in a long fight but that was a totally different kind of fight then she is likely to have with Kankaanpaa.
Btw agree on Grasso, ranking-wise and with the opponents she beated I think the right next step for her is a title eliminator vs. Eggink (if they wanna give her a shorter path to a title shot due to having a great battle vs. Katja) or a brazilian talent like Livinha or Ericka.
Then I would make Katja vs. Karolina for the title, Moyle vs. Aldrich, Greenway vs. Geugjes, Mizuki vs. Owen.
I wouldn't mind Grasso fighting Eggink but I'd like Eggink to get a fight with someone else, probably one of the Brazilians would be good. I guess they could go with Mizuki vs. Eggink, both are coming off a loss.
Eggink is 4-2 at this point. I tend to want her to get a few more wins and build up her record before fighting for the title again although she was winning a good deal of that fight, she was ultimately finished.
Tough call and I won't be too disappointed no matter what happens other then Eggink not getting another fight fairly soon.
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1-10 Rocks Extreme MMA 11
125 Audrey Alvarez (2-0-0) US vs. Stacey Sigala (1-2-0) US
135 Leigh Shultis (0-0-0) US vs. Robin Wissmann (0-0-0) US
105 Jessica Philippus (0-1-0) US vs. Cat Ginorio (0-0-0) US
125 Katie Howard (3-3-0) US vs. Kathina Catron (5-5-0) US
115 Maylene (Bellino) Estudillo (1-0-0) US vs. Jessica McCormick (0-0-0) US
115?/125? Julia Jones (1-0-0) US vs. Alyssa Garcia (0-0-0) US
It is about time to make a new thread.
Link to new Official Women's MMA Discussion Thread #13
http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/showthread.php?p=101289893#post101289893