I actually rate Gadelha's jab better. Hill's is straight and reasonably technical, but it's slow, telegraphed, and lacks a little impact. Gadelha's has more variance, occasionally coming out as a more of a push, but sometimes as a competent jab with proper mechanics and technique that has some impact and suddenness to it.
Briefly summarizing the rest, both women have weak/flawed leg kicks, both have surprisingly solid short right hooks, and while Gadelha's left hook lacks proper rotation and is a little wide, it's still more effective than the pathetic attempt that Hill throws out.
The one area where I give Hill a definite edge is her straight right. It's fairly weak, yes, but better than Gadelha's, which is downright sloppy, as it's not straight and she throws it with a hitch from an slightly overhanded motion in a type of reaching, slapping motion.
Without getting into the nitty-gritty of footwork and defense too much, I think it's a relative bright spot for both women, and likely even overall.
Funny, I think Claudia uses feints a LOT more than Hill does since she started training with Makr Henry. Have you seen her last two fights against Ansaroff and Hill?
True on both counts, but irrelevant in this case, as Hill's own leg kicks are weak.
The Hill-Ansaroff fight was 2.5 years ago. And while not "outright gassing", Hill showed cardio problems against Lookboonme, her last fight 3 months ago.
You can argue the Ansaroff fight is irrelevant (thought I would disagree), but then you have to consider that the two really bad instances of Gadelha gassing occurred 2.5 years ago (Andrade) and 1.5 years ago (Ansaroff), too. More recently, Gadelha looked fine against Markos at a slower pace without grappling (having way more energy than Markos in round 3 as well), and it likely helps that Gadelha has lost some muscle mass.
I agree about the grappling/striking point, but Claudia is the only one of the two that would initiate grappling. So maybe a better way to put it is that Hill has better cardio relative to her style/gameplan.
For the record, let's recall that Gadelha more than held her own striking with JJ for the first 3 rounds before tiring, beat the absolute dogshit out of Andrade striking until Andrade dominated her with wrestling and GNP, and was even with Ansaroff for the first 1.5 rounds striking before gassing...and her striking has improved since those three fights.
Unfortunately, it has been a lateral move, as Gadelha's wrestling has declined over the years, too.
