Here's the match video of Jessica-Rose Clark vs Joselyne Edwards from yesterday's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight is at Bantamweight. Jessie Jess is from Australia but she moved to the US a few years ago. She is currently training at Team Alpha Male (TAM) in Sacramento. She had knee surgery last year and before that she had foot surgery. Joselyne is from Panama but she lives in El Paso, TX. For this camp, she trained at Kings MMA in Huntington Beach, CA. It's obvious that someone at TAM saw that Joselyne has poor takedown defense. Jessie Jess is normally a striker but not a very effective one. So she went for a takedown which she normally doesn't do. After doing nothing for a couple of minutes, ref Keith Peterson stood them up. It was enough for Jessie Jess to win round one. She repeated this strategy over the rest of the fight. This was not an accident. It was a strategy called lay and pray. I guess TAM thought Jessie Jess couldn't outstrike Joselyn. So they went this route. The ref can prevent this by warning the fighter or breaking it up quicker. It depends on the ref. She used the first takedown to gauge what she could get away with. And then she got away with it. Not only is this a strategy to get a cheap win but it makes for a boring fight that turns fans away from WMMA. Plus once opponents are aware that she uses this strategy, it's not difficult to counter it. So lay and pray is short sighted and selfish. And it doesn't make me think that Jessie Jess can beat a ranked fighter. So I'm sure Jessy Jess and TAM are happy with the win. But I can assure you the worm will turn. Check out the video for yourself.
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