Paige needs to rethink Bare knuckles fighting.
I disagree. I think she started slow and was confounded some by the rules limitations. I think she started to fight well in the 4th and 5th rounds. She had the better numbers in those late rounds.
Hart won on the totality, but if it had been 7 rounds, Paige might have caught up and even bested her.
This is fight one for her under BK conditions. There is a learning curve, despite her MMA background.
The main thing is she stood in there and traded well, late in the fight. She avoided receiving a haymaker. She landed hard punches; more than Hart. She resisted the urge to kick and grab.
Her second fight will go better for her.
Hart clearly won the 4th round. The only thing Paige did was win a desperation round at the end while her opponent was just trying to not get knocked out and keep the easy win. Paige can't fight. She's athletic, and game to try anything, but she simply cannot fight. She got beaten badly in clinch striking which is something she should already know how to do from MMA, but anyone who saw her there knows she couldn't fight from the clinch even then.
She's pretty and likes to shake her fake boobs at any camera she can find. That's almost the totality of her skillset. She fought 5 people in UFC that have winning records as professionals, and got beaten by all 5. She just got easily dispatched by someone who was 4-4-3 as a boxer and 1-2 in bareknuckle fights before Saturday night. Paige got completely outclassed by someone who is a bad boxer. She should have gone the Bellator route where her decent wrestling and submission game would have given her a chance to pick up a few wins.
Paige can't fight, huh? Oh, the things I could say here, "Brave Sir Aaron." But discretion outweighs comedy.
Who won the landed punch count Aaron? See the attached. Yeah, the girl who can't fight surpassed your winner in punch count by superior work in both rounds 4 and 5. She was behind through round 3.
Time will prove she is quite the capable striker. Britain Hart is lucky to be standing and chewing her own food. She is only doing so because BKFC rules prevented Paige from rendering her unconscious. But that is part of Paige's move from MMA to BKFC that she must accept. She will overcome the rules limitations on her weaponry and learn to use alternate means.
Meantime, Paige will be cashing big checks and you'll be meaninglessly complaining about her clinch work.
