Jasmine is legit in the clinch and should be the superior striker but Kay has her beat on the mat. Matt is now the striking coach at Niagara Top Team just past the falls where most people are buddies, guy. He has spent years in Thailand and all over the states and his home country of Canada. He is no stranger to working with high-level female fighters as he has even lived with and trained Weili Zhang in China. He was there working out fighters and passing on his knowledge at both the gym and at the UFC Performance Institute. Out there, she met fellow Canadian and pad holding sensation Matt Jelly.
Jasmine is fighting out of Niagara Top Team and she has also put in some time at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas.
Let’s move on from that fight to another scrap, albeit at a lower level in the Women’s Flyweight Division between UFC debutant and Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Jasmine Jasudavicius and 10th Planet talent and submission grappling competitor Kay Hansen. I don't know but that (-120) was easy money and I told you guys to go with Maia who appeared to be almost out-classed in there against Chook who continues to improve as a fighter and this is after some retirement talk which I am starting to believe was a strategic move by the highly intelligent Chookagian to get her opponents and dummies like me to doubt her. I was manipulated by the books making Maia a big enough underdog and also my own hatred for tall broad-shouldered confident women. With that said, I picked Jennifer Maia to beat Kaitlin Chookagian while the Chook by decision line was at (-120) and I watched every last peer pick it. I scoffed harder hearing that pre-fight than I do now. One guy who is currently sitting at broadcast desks with his face on UFC broadcasts said he was (-350) or more-level confident in Giga.
I haven't said much about it yet in my other predictions for UFC 270 because I have been a little braggadocious for how confident I was in Calvin Kattar while many of my colleagues were just as happy with their Giga Chikadze pick.