Do you agree Gina Carano has excellent skills?

Question

If you ignore her beauty and just look at her skills they are absolutely through the rough. Her stand up is so smooth. Is anyone else as impressed with her actual talent as I am? She is way more than a pretty face.

Answer 1

She definitely has skills.  Her striking is good and her ground game is not half bad.  I liked the fact that she attempted the gogoplata in her last fight-that shows that she's getting more comfortable with her ground game.  I would hate to see her face get busted up though.

Answer 2

She definitely has skills, but she has a huge advantage by being much bigger than her opponents.

It is pitiful that she doesn't make weight for her fights, it happened to Travis Lutter and because of it he's a laughing stock.

Answer 3

I'm betting she has great skills, and I'm not just talking MMA ;)

Answer 4

Well her stand up is pretty good, I wasn't overly impressed with her guard work.

I mean in her last fight she just held the girl in closed guard, didn't attempt to sweep or improve position or anything.

Her stand up is clean when she actually lets go, she seemed a little hesitant in this last fight. Once she got started though she looked good.

Would I put her skills at excellent? No, I mean if I didn't take gender or anything into account, I would put her as decent to good.

The fact that she is girl with somewhat clean stand up doesn't mean she is excellent, the same as Christy Martin wasn't an excellent boxer, as far as actual boxing skill.

I would say as far as female MMA fighters her stand up is excellent, but mainly because most female MMA fighters stand up is pretty p**s poor. But as far as her skills over all, I place them at good, not spectacular.

That is just being honest, I wouldn't say her skills are through the roof. Her takedown and takedown defense is subpar, her ground work is not impressive, subpar at best.

Her stand up takes her a bit to warm up, and there I would put it on par with a mid tier male MMA fighter.

However against females it will look d**n near top notch, since there are few female MMA fighters, and there isn't a lot of quality in the female MMA world right now, so Gina looks impressive.

So for a woman MMA fighter I rate her stand up as excellent, but gender aside she has good stand up but not "through the roof"

Considering her camp (Xtreme Couture) I would actually expect her to be better all around then 90% of the woman out there, on top of that I would expect her wrestling and her BJJ to be WAY better than what she has shown.

Just my honest opinion. Hottness and being female aside, she isn't that impressive skillwise, especially considering that she trains with some of the best in the world.

I actually think she could be much much better, and do think she is very talented. I don't know if she lacks committment in her training, or what the case may be. She could be a TON better than what she is with her athleticism, strength, great camp, and accuracy. She looked rusty and off throughout most of the first round.

But she has failed to make weight 3 times now, despite a weight class pretty much being created for her, which shows a definate lack as far as training goes.

But being an honest critic, I can say that she could be much better than what she is. Gender aside I rate her stand up as fair to good, but the rest of her game as subpar.

As a girl, her stand up is great, but still the rest of her game is subpar considering there are some really great girl submission artist out there.

I'd like to see her fight Jennifer Howe, Tara LaRosa,Shayna Baszler, some of these other female fighters who have showed pretty balanced games and have a lot more experience. Aside from Julie Kedzie, Gina has been handed pretty easy opponents.

I think she has a lot of upside, but is concentrating more on her Hollywood career then her fighting one.

That is just my take.

Answer 5

She is skilled... and beautiful

Answer 6

shes has skills but she needs to learn to be able to make weight

i think her stand up is very good standing toe to toe with someone majoring in muay thai

and then training with Coutre for her ground work and such will make her the most solid MMA female fighter

add her looks

and the fact Elite XC is showcasing her as the main center

shes got it pretty well set in the MMA world

Answer 7

She can really fight.

Answer 8

I agree with the skill level. I'd like to see her make weight more. She has only don't that 2 out of 8 times. That's a huge advantage especally consider she's built too.