"I bet Ostovich at +160 and like the price a lot. As was mentioned before, PVZ's advantages in this fight are all intangibles--heart and grit and the occasional jump kick that lands out of 50 attempts. But PVZ against any decent 125 lber with any sort of grappling is a bad matchup for her. She looked absolutely tiny in there with JRC, and didn't look like she bulked up at all for the higher division. She hasn't submitted anyone off her back that I know and her physicality disadvantage up a weightclass should make it even harder for her to lock something up.Ostovich doesn't really have to work too hard to get inside.
PVZ is no Joanna and her outside movement is non-functional wasted movement. She'll take a bunch of steps back and forth but when she's ready to strike, she literally stands upright in place for a couple of seconds giving any girl looking for a TD ample time to get one off. JRC looked like she could've taken PVZ down whenever she wanted but was too happy to make use of her boxing advantage. Ostovich can take it to the ground whenever she's not liking the standup or just to seal a close round. I rewatched the DLR fight and thought both 2 rounds were 50/50, scoring them for Ostovich (were scorecards released?).
I really didn't think PVZ would fight again at 125, and now she's a favorite and it's hard for me to pass up this opportunity despite the weirdness of the situation. Whatever emotional issues Ostovich is having, PVZ has had her own issues not training for 9 out of the 12 months since her last fight, getting married, multiple surgeries, getting
, etc. PVZ won 1 round in her past 4 fights and would probably be 0-4 if Rawlings didn't fall for that silly jump kick (and that 3rd round in JRC fight was very close and JRC was cruising anyway).