Valentina Death kick in slow mo

[mmacool]

eye got any face fractures from that kick??

 

[gstomp06]

damn, that top down view...the way jessica eye was pacing forward. so linear, robotic, and predictable. It's like the type of crap you learn on your first day of training.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Yeah Eye looked dead.
First WMMA bout I had seen that happen.

There's been some pretty brutal knockouts and beatdowns, but nothing quite like that.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Wife material IMO

 

[SalvadorAllende]

First part.. nah

Last part.. yeah

Arent you the guy that said Pettis had better kicks than Barboza?

 

[mmacool]

rakic kick vs manuwa was even more clean..damnnnn

 

[Gamer2k4]

Best kicking techique in the UFC, male and female. Its hilarious how half of Sherdog can't see how amazing this fighter is.

Better than people like Barboza and Wonderboy? She's an incredible fighter, no doubt, but there's no need for hyperbole.

 

[Pakman]

Almost as bad as Holm-Rousey.

Was much worse

 

[Gamer2k4]

How did Jessica Eye get a title shot? I ask sincerely

If you had taken 30 seconds to check, the answer would have been obvious: http://rankingmma.com/ufc-rankings/womens-flyweight/

Eye is the only woman in the division's top ten who had won her last three fights, and the highest ranked fighter coming off a win.

 

[Davey Crockett]

If you had taken 30 seconds to check, the answer would have been obvious: http://rankingmma.com/ufc-rankings/womens-flyweight/

Eye is the only woman in the division's top ten who had won her last three fights, and the highest ranked fighter coming off a win.

What’s with the ‘tude

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Wife material IMO

Impossible standards dude lol. Valentina is a one in a million type of person.

 

[dragovic]

She throws counter spinning head kicks with perfect technique and timing. Who else does that? You just haven't payed attention.

Yes and zero telegraph too. Assassin

 

[Tapatio]

Beautiful. I didn't see the whole fight, but I'd imagine that Shev was spamming low kicks to set that one up.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Beautiful. I didn't see the whole fight, but I'd imagine that Shev was spamming low kicks to set that one up.

Body kicks, yeah. She was eating her up, still, I didn't expect a Mirko Cro Cop esque knockout from Valentina. I hope she has more like this for us. Obviously she's not putting anyone out cold with her hands, but those legs man. They just about killed that Cleveland girl.

 

[NaughtyBoy]

Valentina is no joke...

 

[weeesel]

Better quality if anyone wants

 

[Lint]

its easy too look good vs trash competition

barao looked good vs cans & TJ beat the crap out of him and made him look like a noob.

Barao was on a 32 win streak when he faced TJ.
His two victories before facing TJ were Faber and Wineland, Wineland who fought and won at this last UFC edition.

I hate when people do that but I have to.... Why don't you join professional fighting and try beating only half of Barao's "cans" and see what gives..? Just join your place's local MMA tournament and beat 16 of them.

 

[ImWalterHobbs]

Poor Eye. Read a few articles on her this week and she seems to have had a tough life. Pretty much the only one with the guts to fight Bullet as well. Gotta give her credit.

 

[ScoopSubMMA]

Imagine if the first UFC to the death was a woman. It looked like a possibility the way that landed on the temple.

Everyone who talks to Jessica for the next month:

 

[aerius]

Best kicking technique male and female? LOL. She is good but definitely not better than Barboza, Adesanya or Rockhold when it comes to kicks.

Adesanya's kicks are very accurate & well timed, but technique wise they're not the best. If you look at his round kicks, he almost always needs to take a setup step with his base leg to initiate his kick, and he doesn't fully turn his hip over to get proper power and drive through on his kicks. That setup step on his kicks is why Anderson Silva could see most of his kicks coming and easily duck under most of them.

Rockhold gets the hip turnover for good power but he needs work on his timing & distance. He throws his kicks from too close a fair amount of the time and jams himself so he doesn't get full power on them. Also, his posture & balance during the kick needs work, his recovery from a kick often leaves him in a poor defensive position with his hands down and his chin hanging in the air.

Barboza does things right if you give him space to step into a kick, his distance & timing is good and he turns his hip over fully to drive his kicks through. the problem is he needs to be going forward, he doesn't kick as well if he's forced to kick straight from his stance, and once you start pushing him backwards his form goes to pieces.

Valentina is actually better than all of them. She has Adesanya's timing & placement, she gets her hips turned over for full power & drive on the kick, and she has the correct posture & balance during the kick & kick recovery to start defending strikes even before her kicking leg comes back down. She can kick going forwards, straight from her stance, or going backwards with the same form & effectiveness. Now, does she have the same speed and power of the men? Of course not, she's a 125lbs woman, but looking purely at technique she's about as good as it gets in MMA.