Final day trip the 27-year-old regarded sensational in taking aside Sambo World Champion Mariia Molchanova, and now faces a special problem within the type of Japanese judoka Ayaka Miura. Recognized for her takedowns and devastating prime recreation, Miura will pose some very totally different inquiries to Molchanova – however Kelly is assured the solutions would be the identical.

“I’ll be submitting her,” she stated. “I want to get a choke. I feel leglocks are beginning to be overrated, however I imply, if I get a leg lock then I’ll simply go for it, however I don’t wish to simply have tunnel imaginative and prescient on it.”

One of the vital thrilling fighters in the entire of feminine grappling, Kelly remains to be bettering her arsenal and sees this weekend as one other likelihood to tackle an opponent who will take a look at her ever-improving skillset. 

“I’ve been engaged on my wrestling,” she stated. “I’m making an attempt to get again to that as a result of I used to wrestle so much. I don’t wish to be only a guard puller. So if I am going towards her, I feel it’d be a enjoyable match. As a result of I do know she’s a judo black belt. I feel she does numerous takedowns for MMA fights. So yeah, we’re determining her recreation.”

A second successive spectacular win can be big for Kelly, and provides her the ammunition she wants to begin dictating her personal profession path – in addition to the fights she desires to place her on that highway to gold. A grappler by coronary heart, she says she has no need to make the swap to MMA – and as a substitute desires to make her mark on the strawweights round her.

“I wish to win that girls’s title for 115, for certain,” she added.

With a surprising takedown recreation, a capability to assault from all angles, and a fuel tank for days, few would query her means to achieve that objective.

This weekend is the subsequent step on the highway to glory.

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