Waldo Cortes-Acosta🇩🇴 (14-2) pressures while maintaining range with his good jab developed from his boxing background in order to set up his powerful and accurate volume combinations that include straight rights, left hooks, crosses, and overhands. His striking is crisp but not perfect. He throws little to no kicks and is too reliant on jabs. Waldos' clinch game is mainly opportunistic like the rest of his grappling, tying up in order to land some dirty boxing, elbows, and knees before breaking away. The only time he shoots takedowns is on pressure oriented strikers who leave themselves open like Robelis Despaigne, but his defense was horrible, we don't know how it would go if he tried it on better opponents. When he finds himself on top, he uses ground and pound strikes combined with weight positioning efficiently to stop scrambles. Defensively, he frames his body well and combines that with his athleticism for sprawls, or when put on his back, he bursts back to his feet.
Ante Delijađź‡đꇷ (26-6), with his kickboxing oriented style, presses forward using feints to close distance and open up his powerful straight rights, left hooks, uppercuts, overhands, teeps, and calf kicks. If he isn't able to maintain range, though, he becomes suseptible to counters due to his lower volume than Waldo and lack of head movement. In the clinch he utilizes his judo to get good grips on underhooks or collar ties then drive opponents to the cage where he traps them with hip control, landing knees and elbows or looking for trips and throws. When he gets it to the ground, he reigns down ground & pound from half guard or side control to either finish or bank control time. Defensively, he has good sprawls, underhooks, and whizzers but can be taken down by opponents who can chain wrestle. My pick is Delija (DEC).