Either of these girls would be insta-fade material if they weren't fighting each other.
In her fight against Kailin Curran, Chambers put her back to the cage and let Curran tee off on her. Her defense there was to just wait until Curran stopped throwing her combos and then move away. This same tactic would be a bad idea against Kassem who, given what we've seen from her, can throw enough volume at chicks to get a ref stoppage. At least in the first round. She's pretty tough but at 39 years old with that long of a layoff, will Chambers be tough enough to weather the first round? She's only been stopped by submissions before nobody has really committed to blitzing her like Kassem might try to.
If Chambers can, then things look a bit better for her. We haven't seen Kassem in the 2nd round of an MMA fight, but there's a video out there of her in the second round of a kickboxing match and her cardio doesn't look good. After going ham on her opponent for the first 3 minutes, she slowed down considerably for all of the 2nd round. She did get her wind back in the 3rd round, but these are 3 min kickboxing rounds.
Despite being small and not particularly strong, Chambers has had success getting the fight to the ground. She submitted Esquibel pretty quickly, and locked up an armbar in Rd3 against Curran. We have not seen any grappling game whatsoever from Kassem. However, it's reported that Kassem has only been training for 4 years. It looks like she's focused a lot on the kickboxing aspect, so we can assume that at best she is a blue belt. When clinched up in her kickboxing match, she seemed easy to push around.
So this might be the classic 1 round gas tank kickboxer fight versus grappler matchup. I think I'm going to wait and see what the 1st round prop for Kassem is, and the SUB prop for Chambers. I'm not sure which will be the main or which will be the hedge (will depend on the odds I guess). But those seem to be the two most likely results.
In her fight against Kailin Curran, Chambers put her back to the cage and let Curran tee off on her. Her defense there was to just wait until Curran stopped throwing her combos and then move away. This same tactic would be a bad idea against Kassem who, given what we've seen from her, can throw enough volume at chicks to get a ref stoppage. At least in the first round. She's pretty tough but at 39 years old with that long of a layoff, will Chambers be tough enough to weather the first round? She's only been stopped by submissions before nobody has really committed to blitzing her like Kassem might try to.
If Chambers can, then things look a bit better for her. We haven't seen Kassem in the 2nd round of an MMA fight, but there's a video out there of her in the second round of a kickboxing match and her cardio doesn't look good. After going ham on her opponent for the first 3 minutes, she slowed down considerably for all of the 2nd round. She did get her wind back in the 3rd round, but these are 3 min kickboxing rounds.
Despite being small and not particularly strong, Chambers has had success getting the fight to the ground. She submitted Esquibel pretty quickly, and locked up an armbar in Rd3 against Curran. We have not seen any grappling game whatsoever from Kassem. However, it's reported that Kassem has only been training for 4 years. It looks like she's focused a lot on the kickboxing aspect, so we can assume that at best she is a blue belt. When clinched up in her kickboxing match, she seemed easy to push around.
So this might be the classic 1 round gas tank kickboxer fight versus grappler matchup. I think I'm going to wait and see what the 1st round prop for Kassem is, and the SUB prop for Chambers. I'm not sure which will be the main or which will be the hedge (will depend on the odds I guess). But those seem to be the two most likely results.
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