Dumont VS. Ladd

Norma Dumont and Aspen Ladd go head to head in a five round main event on October 16th in the women’s Featherweight division. Norma Dumont is coming off a split decision win against Felicia Spencer back in May of 2021 and now she’s back against opponent Aspen Ladd. Ladd is a late replacement; it was originally supposed to be Holly Holm but Holm had to pull out of the fight due to a knee injury. Ladd stepped in as a replacement after she missed weight two weeks ago when she was supposed to take on Macy Chiasson in the bantamweight division. Ladd has missed weight in the past and has looked very sickly trying to make weight so maybe this last minute move to featherweight will benefit her.

This fight can bring some attention to the women’s Featherweight division because as of right now UFC.com does not have a top 15 list for the rankings. I think its due to the lack of women Featherweights in the division and trying find women Featherweights to build the division around is hard when you have a superior champion like Amanda Nunes who will stunt the growth of the division. Amanda Nunes is the Bantamweight and Featherweight champion. She is dominant to the point where every time she steps in the octagon she is leaps and bounds ahead of her opponents. As of right now the UFC does not have Norma or Aspen ranked but they are very deserving of it and should easily be in the top 10 of the division. If this fight creates fireworks I believe it’ll help the division grow.

These fighters match up very well against each other. Ladd is coming in as the smaller fighter due to moving up a weight class so I believe Dumont is going to be bigger and stronger and it’s going to help so she can avoid getting taken down or getting stuck in a clinch. Dumont has great footwork and I believe she’s going to use it as an advantage and wait for her opponent to walk on a big counter shot. Ladd tends to take a punch to give a punch and I do not see Dumont playing that game because she’s more technical and is able to maneuver out of the way of her opponents punches and land her own. She’s probably going to be more defensive watching for the takedowns and waiting for Ladd to become reckless and capitalize on it. Ladd is going to have to get this fight to the ground or the clinch because that’s where she strives; she can’t get caught up in Dumonts rhythm and get out pointed the whole fight. Ladd is going to be very aggressive and probably chain wrestle until she gets the fight on the floor. She does not get discouraged if she doesn’t get the take down she’ll just keeps shooting for a single or double leg and that’s going to help tire out her opponent. If Ladd can get on top of Dumont she’s going to have a lot of success because Ladds ground and pound is very dangerous with already 3 wins in the UFC from ground and pound. This fight is going to help the Featherweight division grow regardless of the outcome.