Here's the match video of Montana De La Rosa vs Ariane Lipski from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight was at Flyweight. Both fighters have been disappointing in the UFC. Montana is from Texas. She now trains at Elevation in Denver with coach Marc Montoya. She trains a lot in Colorado Springs with Raquel Pennington and Tecia Torres. She has ground skills but her striking is terrible. Ariane is from Brazil and a former KSW champ known as The Queen of Violence. But she hasn't lived up to that in the UFC. After her last loss, Ariane and her husband/coach moved to American Top Team in Coconut Creek, FL. Her coach is two time Olympic wrestler Steve Mocco and ATT head coach Conan Silveiro was also in her corner. Mocco is supposed to help with her wrestling. The mistake that Ariane made is a mistake I see from a lot of Brazilian fighters. The only thing Montana is good at is takedowns. After Ariane is taken down, she thinks her ground skills are good enough to win from bottom position. She should have tried to get up. Instead Montana became more confident and won round one. This continued in round two and eventually Montana landed enough ground and pound to win by TKO. Big win for Montana as she may have saved her job. I would have to see her beat someone higher up. I have my doubts. As for Ariane, sometimes it takes more than one camp for a coach to fix problems. Mocco should now know what he needs to fix. Enjoy the video!
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