Former UFC champion Rose Namajunas has said she has noticed mistakes made by former opponents of Natalia Silva.

On Saturday night at UFC 324, Rose Namajunas will lock horns with Natalia Silva. If she picks up the win, it seems pretty likely that she will go on to challenge for the UFC women’s flyweight championship, meaning a showdown with her friend Valentina Shevchenko. While Rose would probably prefer it to be somebody else, she knows what she’s capable of on the big stage.

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Namajunas is a two-time UFC strawweight champion and while her career has been full of ups and downs, she has a real opportunity here to prove she’s still at the championship level. Of course, she can’t afford to overcome a very game Silva, who will be hunting down the gold herself.

In a recent interview, Namajunas opened up and gave an interesting analysis of Natalia’s work.

Namajunas looks ahead to Silva fight

“Obviously, Joanna, she doesn’t throw as many dynamic strikes as Natalia, and I think Natalia has more power than Joanna does, so you have to be very cognizant of that,” Namajunas told MMA Junkie Radio.

“But as far as her sort of more of a defensive style, not that Joanna wasn’t, I don’t think she was as defensive. She was more in your face than Natalia is, but in terms of, in the sense that so many girls fight her and they’re just waiting for the opportunity to try to take her down. Like they’ve already lost the fight before it began, because they don’t believe in their striking enough to have a mixed martial arts fight with them.

“So I feel like even when they do get close, they can try to grab her or something, and she pops right back up, or they can’t get her to the ground, they get like deflated and defeated in that, and then she can style on them.”

“I feel like in that aspect, it’s very similar to Joanna in the same sense where Joanna, she definitely defeated a lot of people because they didn’t believe in their striking, and I believe in my striking 100 percent. Obviously, that’s my bread and butter.

“I’m a great mixed martial artist, and obviously I have a lot of submission wins, and my jiu-jitsu is amazing and my wrestling too, but I love to strike. I love to move. I love to make people miss, and I love to make them pay for their mistakes. So, you know, that’s what I’ll be looking to do.”

Quotes via MMA Junkie

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