The future of the UFC women’s featherweight division is quite
unclear, but for now, Spencer is the clear best of the full-time
145ers still with the promotion. Still relatively early in her
career, Spencer’s UFC tenure to date has basically shown off two
things: her wrestling in her wins and her durability in her losses,
as she somehow survived some ungodly beatings against Cristiane
Justino and Amanda
Nunes. Having already lost a title fight against Nunes,
Spencer’s left to likely outwrestle whoever else the UFC throws in
front of her, which in this case is Dumont. Brazil’s Dumont was one
of a few fighters that the UFC signed to debut at featherweight,
only to later cut down to bantamweight. In Dumont’s case, she
merely attempted to do so. “The Immortal” has had two UFC bouts
contracted at 135 pounds but missed weight for both, one of them so
badly that the fight was scrapped. She steps in on late notice for
this opportunity at 145 pounds, but in the long term, she badly
needs to find a way to make it to bantamweight.
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Dumont’s style focuses on physicality and
aggression that can bully opponents at 135 pounds but leaves her
quite outgunned as a featherweight. Spencer’s striking is porous
defensively, so Dumont could have some early success. However,
Spencer’s durability and Dumont’s tendency to pressure mean that
this should hit the mat in short order. Spencer should be able to
find a victory shortly thereafter. The pick is Spencer via
first-round stoppage.
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