Tainara Lisboa

He frames the pick as simply preferring one fighter's Muay Thai after describing both skill sets in near-identical terms, with no unqualified supporting claim.

A volume-based Muay Thai striker with a strong clinch and a serviceable top game, portrayed as nearly a mirror image of her opponent but slightly behind on the striking comparison.

Gives an explicit deciding mechanism -- the cage push -- as the decider, with no hedge on the win itself.

A good striker with a different look than Croden -- combinations, leg kicks and volume -- plus a strong clinch game (trips, control, knees). Her grappling is described as decent rather than good, with good ground-and-pound and heavy top pressure. The analyst speculates, without confirming on her own board or tape, that her back game may be similarly limited to what he expects of Croden.

Sides decisively with Lisboa, citing her size advantage and expecting her clinch control to shut down Santos's throws.

A good Muay Thai-style striker with good combinations, volume and leg kicks that lends itself to strong clinch control, good knees and the ability to get trips from the clinch. Her grappling is decent and heavily top-game focused -- fine if she is on top, but a problem if she ends up on her back.

He says Lisboa should win 'pretty confidently' and that he 'likes' her -- a direct, positive statement backed by a clear skill-gap mechanism (her striking and top-game danger vs. a merely decent, cage-and-hold opponent). The only caveat is general variance talk about debut fighters, not doubt about the pick itself; the price (minus 320) is called fair, not something he objects to.

A striker whose Muay Thai roots run deep, already on display in her first UFC appearance -- sharp combinations, solid output, strong leg kicks, and real comfort working the Thai clinch, where she controls opponents and lands knees. Once things hit the mat she is heavy and dangerous on top with quality ground-and-pound, though he stops short of calling her a top-level grappler, rating her grappling only decent. He frames her as clearly the better, more well-rounded fighter in this specific matchup.

Says he'd like to pick Clark and root for her, then explicitly does not; picks the "unknown commodity" Lisboa on a clinch-trip/top-pressure route, while conceding Clark has a real chance with a disciplined wrestling gameplan he doubts she'll use.

A Muay Thai specialist leaning on combinations, leg kicks and clinch volume -- her stated best path against UFC-level opposition, with few bantamweight opponents sharing her striking background. In the clinch she adds good trips and control, and from top position heavy pressure and solid ground-and-pound; she is flagged as untested off her back. Her record to this point is against lower-level competition with one notable step-up loss (Norma Dumont); he does not buy a big grappling threat from her, reading her as a striker first. Despite wanting to root for Clark, he takes Lisboa to get it done by working the clinch into trips and top pressure.