Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Ariane Lipski vs Isabela De Padua

Here's the match video of Ariane Lipski vs Isabela De Padua from last night's UFC show in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This fight was at Flyweight. Ariane's original opponent was Priscila Cachoeira. After she flunked a drug test, Veronica Macedo replaced her. After she suffered severe headaches on Wednesday, Isabela was brought in on two days notice. She did miss weight and I expect her to drop back to Strawweight after this fight. Someone asked me about finding a fighter on such short notice. There are plenty of fighters there. They just have to find to who will accept the fight. Ariane came to the UFC with a rep as a former KSW champ. She admitted that she wasn't as aggressive as she needed to be in those fights. And she trained at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas to address that. She looked better but I still see problems. Ariane came out aggressively in round one. She dropped Isabela and landed some ground and pound. Isabela turned it around but didn't do much on top. I scored the round 10-9 for Ariane. She was even better in round two which was close to 10-8. And then Isabela was docked a point for an illegal upkick. That made it a 10-8 round. Isabela needed a finish in round three. She won the round 10-9 but didn't come close to a finish. I scored the fight 29-27 for Ariane. Two of the judges scored it 30-26 for Ariane and the third scored it 29-27. After Ariane won the first two rounds, round three didn't matter much. Obviously Ariane was better in this fight. I think she needs to improve her takedown defense as she is not very good on the ground. She will have trouble with ranked fighters. Enjoy the video!