piglord
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Fair point, but Fili tends to accept scrambles when grappling exchanges are forced on him. He's a pretty competent grappler himself, just not on Bryce's level. But I think Fili has some hubris and won't try to avoid any grappling like the plague (which should be his strategy).
Fili for sure is the better striker, no question. But Mitchell will know it and will sell out to force grappling on Andre imo.
yeah about the strategy part, one of my rules is that when i'm betting against a tenacious grappler, i always want my fighter to have rock solid fight iq - which i can't say about fili who just go into a blood and guts war with an opponent that has no takedown defense.
i do think fili is live stylistically but it's probably a reluctant pass for me.