An unbeaten 6-0 record sees Bantamweight Michelle Montague Land in the Octagon on UFC Perth this weekend this weekend. A main component of the women’s division in the PFL and Bellator for that Montague is confronted with the Brazilian Luana Carolina in her UFC debut on Saturday, on a map characterized by Carlos Ulberg and Dominick Reyes.
Michelle “The Wild One” Montague
Stand on five nine
Fighting on 135 pounds (Bantam weight)
31 years old
Fighting from Matamata, Wsikato
Training of the American top team
A pro-record of 6-0
6 entries
Michelle Montague is a former Immaf-Lichtweight world champion, a double Kiwi Freestyle Wrestling Commonwealth Games competitor and a former member of the Waikato Women’s Rugby team. She is also an important training partner of UFC Bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison. She only has two career losses, both as an amateur for Sabinna de Sousa, so no shame there. Since she became pro, she has completed all six of her fights from RNC, usually in PFL.
Montague will make the switch to 135 for the first time in her career, which could make or break her in the future. Her CV suggests that she is a one -dimensional hunter, but although she is not an elite, she is far from a fish from water. What she does well is to throw volume and effectively combine her hands and feet. She uses blitzes, attacks both sides and mixes her submissions. Sometimes her head movement is missing, but she will dive from the centerline and dive under bumps when needed.
Her wrestling does not always supplement her wrestling if you want. Submissions are not perfectly timed and she sometimes struggles with speed. That said, she does a solid work for the legs, circling to the back, matt return to the mat of suplex’s opponent. It is a weakness, but she has still received every opponent she has confronted on the ground.
Montague is a force as soon as the fight touches the mat. She quickly goes to dominant positions, takes her back and locks stuff. When she is at the top, she is very difficult to loosen, actively land ground and pounds, and when the neck of her opponent is exposed, her tight squeeze usually forces a tap. To properly assess its UFC career, we will have to see how she first handles the Bantam weight division.
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