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The largest girls’s match in blended martial arts historical past will come to an epic conclusion at ONE: WINTER WARRIORS this Friday, 3 December.
That night, former kickboxing and Muay Thai queen Stamp Fairtex will meet wrestling icon Ritu “The Indian Tigress” Phogat within the ONE Girls’s Atomweight World Grand Prix Championship Remaining.
Each opponents overcame adversity within the quarterfinal spherical after which produced dominant performances within the semifinals.
Now, they’ll collide for the match’s prestigious silver belt and the following shot at reigning ONE Atomweight World Champion “Unstoppable” Angela Lee.
The entire world can be watching this conflict – particularly Stamp and Phogat’s fellow ONE Championship superstars. Right here, they analyze the intriguing matchup and make their predictions.
“It’s an amazing matchup. Ritu versus Stamp – two nice personalities with a giant [fan] following. Two totally different ability units – one’s a striker, one’s a grappler. You understand all fights begin standing, that’s what’s in Stamp’s favor. So the longer Ritu can preserve Stamp on her again and impose herself on that facet as a way to get in and keep protected, the extra success she could have.
“As for Stamp, she’s obtained to sprawl-and-brawl and keep off her again. She is aware of Ritu can be closing the gap. She’s obtained to have the ability to strike going backward, preserve her at vary, and simply preserve selecting her off.
“Who do I feel will win? I obtained to go together with Ritu. She’s the queen of Indian MMA, and it’s about time we obtained a king and queen there to unfold this sport and blow it up. I feel she’s going to win, after which I hope in her subsequent combat, we’re on the identical card collectively.”
“This remaining spherical could be very thrilling as a result of Stamp is there, and clearly, she’s my good friend. She’s some of the wonderful and most harmful strikers within the division. Ritu is excellent together with her wrestling.
“It’s laborious to name this bout. If Stamp dominates Ritu within the placing division and retains this combat from hitting the mats, I feel she’s going to win palms down. She has nice takedown protection and her floor recreation could be very properly developed. And I’m perhaps a little bit biased right here, however I feel Stamp wins this combat as a result of she’s a extra full fighter.”
“For some cause, I wish to lean towards Ritu, however you’ll be able to’t rely Stamp out. However I simply suppose that Stamp form of waits a little bit bit an excessive amount of and Ritu is extra head-on, so far as the wrestling goes.
“She’s going to have the ability to take Stamp down, and so I’m going to lean towards Ritu. However Stamp has an amazing likelihood towards Ritu due to her caliber of placing. I consider she’s had like 100 fights since she was a child.
[Stamp is] very skilled, and one punch or one kick can end the combat, or one elbow or one knee might end the combat. It’s a really fascinating matchup, and I look ahead to it.”
“If I had to decide on, I’m going to say Stamp. I personally want to see Stamp combat Angela. Ritu is actually thrilling, too, however coming from me being a striker and liking to face up and stuff, I’m going to go for the striker.”
“I obtained to go together with Stamp Fairtex as a result of she [starting to] combine her Muay Thai with different martial arts, and it’s going to be good. And I feel she’s going to win by factors.”
“I’m going to go together with Ritu simply because I feel that she has actually good wrestling, and I really feel like she’s going to win by way of choice.”
“If I needed to decide one, I’m going to go together with Stamp Fairtex. I feel she’s simply large for the burden class. I feel she’s greater, a greater striker, and clearly, Ritu is an outstanding wrestler, however I really really feel Stamp is simply actually huge for that division. So, I’m going to go together with Stamp. Good luck.”
“I’d wish to predict Ritu versus Stamp. I like Stamp loads – she’s made a variety of progress in her MMA, however her grappling continues to be too restricted for Ritu, and Ritu is simply going to take her down time and time once more. So, I’m going to have to provide this one to Ritu. Good luck to each.”
“It’s the bottom recreation versus placing. It’s laborious to inform, however I really feel like Stamp will win.
“I’ve seen how a lot she’s improved on the bottom [in the quarterfinals against Alyona Rassohyna], who’s additionally an excellent grappler. Now, Stamp has all of it. She will be able to defend on the bottom, she has punches and kicks, and that’s why I’m taking her.”
“They’re each good. They’re super athletes with totally different experience. If this match goes to the bottom, it’s Ritu, and Stamp takes it on the toes.
“However my guess is on Stamp Fairtex. I consider that her placing is so a lot better and that her floor recreation has improved and is wanting an increasing number of polished in every combat.
“That is simply my opinion, however I really feel like Stamp is extra skilled than Ritu. However I’m not discounting the truth that Ritu can win and submit her, given her power and grappling. I’m taking Stamp. Let’s simply wait and see.”
“I feel Ritu could be very good. I feel that she might be going to take this.
“She’s most likely going to handle to convey Stamp to the bottom. Stamp’s groundwork has improved tremendously, however nonetheless, I feel Ritu will be capable of trigger her bother downstairs.
“She will be able to most likely take it to the bottom and drown her there.”
“It’s positively one in all my favourite tournaments that I’ve watched to this point. It’s enjoyable to look at high-level ladies put all of it on the road.
“It form of shocked me how Ritu obtained out of the primary spherical towards Meng Bo, however she did, then she gained her second one and now she’s within the remaining. It form of baffles me.
“Stamp, I knew she was a high expertise, one of many high two to be in there. It’s been a tremendous Grand Prix to look at, could the perfect lady win.
“If I had to decide on, I’d say Stamp, simply being the larger lady, being stronger. However don’t get me unsuitable – Ritu can win as properly. Her wrestling is legit. Stamp needs to be on level. In any other case, it’s going to be a grind to the choice by way of Ritu.”
“I feel Stamp will win. I feel Ritu gained’t get the takedown and can find yourself getting smashed up by [Stamp’s] placing. I feel the standard of Phogat’s placing and Stamp’s are totally different, so far as I can inform.”
“On this remaining between Ritu and Stamp, from what Ritu has been exhibiting within the Grand Prix, I consider she is the winner on this remaining. Ritu is a really robust athlete, very versatile. She has very sturdy grappling.
“So, in my view, she would be the winner of this remaining. However it will likely be a really robust combat, so I consider this combat will go to the judges’ choice.”
“I feel that Ritu has a severe likelihood. As everyone knows, all wrestlers can dictate the place the combat goes. Stamp has wonderful stand-up, however in case you’re frightened of the takedown all the time, you’re all the time going to be tentative to the place you throw.
“And that’s the place Ritu’s benefit is – that she will be able to scare her, understanding that Stamp could be taken down and she will be able to dictate the combat the way in which she needs.
“However I wouldn’t sleep on Stamp both. [She has] wonderful stand-up, wonderful placing. It’s going to be a superb combat for her, and it’s actually going to indicate who’s the most effective.”
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