Prediction: Piera Rodriguez via Decision<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Souza is dangerous, but it\u2019s a very specific kind of danger. Everything she does is built around that big right hand. That\u2019s the weapon. That\u2019s the threat. Outside of that? Her game is pretty shallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She doesn\u2019t cut angles or she doesn\u2019t set traps. What she does do is march forward looking to create a brawl, hoping to land that bomb in the chaos. That kind of approach works against people who can\u2019t grapple or don\u2019t know how to stay composed under fire. But Piera Rodriguez? She thrives in that mess\u2014and she\u2019s got the tools to turn Souza\u2019s pressure into her own advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rodriguez has a massive edge on the ground. Wrestling, top control, positional awareness\u2014it\u2019s all in her corner. And the best part? Souza\u2019s forward pressure plays right into it. When someone\u2019s walking straight in with predictable entries and no setup, it becomes way easier to time level changes and get in deep on shots. Piera\u2019s gonna have takedown opportunities handed to her on a silver platter if Souza sticks to her usual style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And once it hits the mat, that\u2019s where the gap becomes obvious. Souza doesn\u2019t do real work off her back. Even if Souza pops back up once or twice, she\u2019s gonna get taken right back down if she keeps pressing with no game plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prediction: Piera Rodriguez via Decision Souza is dangerous, but it\u2019s a very specific kind of danger. Everything she does is built around that big right hand. That\u2019s the weapon. That\u2019s the threat. Outside of that? Her game is pretty shallow. She doesn\u2019t cut angles or she doesn\u2019t set traps. What…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}