Tracy Cortez

He closes with 'side with Wong' but immediately before that concedes an unrebutted path for Cortez if Wang's kicks get caught.

A good striker who stays light on her feet, pushes real volume, and lands boxing combinations, though she tends to get walked backward, which is a problem against a cage-cutter. On the mat she is a good grappler with a reliable double leg, solid submission defense, good top pressure, and her own takedown defense. The analyst frames her path as needing to get this fight to the floor because he does not rate her chances standing with Wang.

Says Blanchfield's game has developed a lot since their earlier meeting and calls her the more complete fighter now, backed by a stated pressure/output edge; no hedge on the win itself.

A good, light-footed striker whose volume and crisp boxing stand out, whose main liability is that she retreats while still throwing -- a real issue against a forward-pressing opponent like this one. Her grappling is good across the board: a strong double-leg takedown, solid defense against submissions, and real control both on top and against being taken down herself, making her, in the analyst's words, a complete overall fighter.

He lays out a genuine two-sided mechanism (Cortez's volume and cleaner combinations against Araujo's power and counter-striking) before picking Araujo, but flags it himself as another case of him leaning toward the underdog -- a self-aware bias disclosure, with the pick following that bias. Per the bias rule, that discounts the grade; he closes by calling it a close fight.

Cortez is read as a good, light-footed striker with real volume and clean boxing combinations, but with a specific, named tactical risk: she gets backed up, which the analyst says she needs to manage carefully in this matchup. Her grappling is good and well-rounded -- a good double-leg, sound defense on both the submission and takedown side, and good top pressure if she gets on top.

Names Namajunas plainly as the better fighter overall, and the pick sentence itself sits in a mistagged segment (see review_flags). But the closing segment carries an explicit hedge on the WIN itself, not just on method: he says it genuinely depends which version of her shows up that night, and tells viewers it's fair to either get involved or sit this one out. A qualifier on the win plus that stay-away framing caps this at coinflip even though he reaffirms the pick immediately after.

A solid wrestler at her best -- a very good double leg, good top pressure, good takedowns with good timing on trips, good ground-and-pound and a diverse submission arsenal -- with very good/hard-to-submit submission defense and good takedown defense of her own. Her striking has genuinely developed (good boxing combinations, good volume, light on her toes) though she can be backed up. Taking this main event on short notice as a replacement for Macy Barber is a real step up in competition for her.

Direct, repeated, explicit pick for Jasudavicius, built on a stated category-by-category edge -- he argues she matches or slightly betters Cortez in nearly every skill area -- plus named reach, durability and cardio advantages. The 'free money' hedge-both-sides talk is an explicit wager-management strategy, separate from the analytical pick, and does not demote the grade.

Fights under the transcript slug 'cortes' but is Tracy Cortez (board spells it with a Z; see identity note below). A solid, well-rounded wrestler with a nice double leg and very good top pressure, who also defends submissions well -- the analyst specifically recalls her fending off several close attempts in a past fight. Her striking is decent and clean when it lands, with volume that is neither high nor low, though she can be backed up at times.

calls it too close, says he would run it close to even over ten fights, and is not very confident

A wrestler whose most direct route to victory is straightforward: score the takedown, hold top position, and grind through the rounds behind ground-and-pound. He is blunt that her defense against strikes is poor, which becomes the main danger if she cannot land the takedown.