JJ Aldrich defeats Daniel Taylor

        In my opinion, Taylor is not built for the strawweight division.  She tried to fight an outside technical match against an epic size disadvantage.  It didn't work out.  When you're that small you need top wrestling (like 5 ft 1 Carla Esparza for example) or Mike Tyson skills where you have exceptional head movement that allows you to close the distance quickly.

         She needs better muay thai and kickboxing.  When Taylor rushed in she would throw one or two punches, or one kick and get back out.  She never finished her punches with leg kicks.  So you essentially have a small boxer who is mainly a pot shotter in MMA.  Not good.  And it's too bad because she has scary athleticism.

       You have to question Taylor's team for giving her such a flawed game plan, assuming that they even had a game plan.  You can't come into MMA expecting to land that one big shot with such a huge size gap.  All Aldrich did to avoid danger was take a step back whenever Taylor came in.  That is a major red flag that you have a huge hole in your game.

        If she doesn't develop a style designed to offset huge size disadvantages she is going to lose many more fights in the same fashion she lost to JJ Aldrich.  She will continue to linger on the outside hopelessly trying to leap in with a big shot that may or may not land.  If it doesn't land she will lose the fight because her ground game and muay thai / kickboxing is under developed, and she often leaves her head stationary.

       As a small fighter, she needs better than average head movement to avoid strikes.  As is the case with many MMA fighters, when Taylor gets hit she is often getting hit flush.  She is not pulling away or rolling with shots to take the steam off.  All too often her head is standing straight up in the air.  She ate jabs all night and then some.

       As I mentioned in the case of Carla Esparza and Michelle Waterson, I believe Taylor would also benefit greatly from an antomweight division, where some of her holes may not be as easy to exploit against fighters closer to her own size.  Taylor often looks like a real midget in the octagon.  She has great speed and power and should be able to utilize her tools without first overcoming such a big size disadvantage.  At a certain extent the viewer is being robbed of a fairly contested fight.

       As a company that prides itself on being a leader & example of MMA we have to assume that an antomweight division in the UFC, which I predict will be one of the best divisions, is already planned for the near future.  The push for the division continues.  It's the final division to complete the entire women's division of MMA in the UFC.