Brazilian bruiser, Bethe Correia, will attempt to dethrone inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women's Bantamweight queen, Ronda Rousey, this Saturday (Aug. 1, 2015) inside HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

While fighting Rousey is a rather unenviable task, Correia has been looking to scrap with the champion since day one. She entered UFC with a surprising upset victory over women's mixed martial arts (MMA) pioneer Julie Kedzie and quickly built from there.

In her next two performances, Correia handed out beatings to Jessamyn Duke and Shayna Baszler, two of Rousey's main teammates and part of the ill-fated "Four Horsewoman." While none of those wins are particularly significant in terms of the rankings, it was enough to draw Rousey's ire and force this fight to be made.

She's succeeded in getting the champion's attention. Let's take a closer look at her skills and see if there's even a chance that it will end well for her.

Striking

Though she's billed as an aggressive boxer, that's not exactly "Pitbull's" style. She definitely relies on her punches more than anything else, but Correia isn't exactly a pressure fighter. Usually, she's only forcing the issue if the momentum is on her side.

Much of the time, Correia is happy to work from the outside. She's not exactly fleet-footed, but the Brazilian can move decently well. As mentioned, she's largely a puncher, but Correia does throw a pretty high volume of inside and outside low kicks from this range. For some reason, Correia almost never sets up these strikes, which has caused her to eat counter punches a majority of the time.

In a division with more punching power, that might be a problem, but Correia has yet to really suffer for it.

In addition, Correia is happy to flick out punches from distance. She relies on her jab a fair amount and is not bad with the punch. She'll even go to the body with the strike.

All that said, Correia is definitely at her best when moving forward. She largely relies on hooks and her cross, but the Brazilian does a nice job mixing up her attack.

In particular, Correia mixes up body punches and head strikes very well. It allows her to land at a surprisingly high rate and with good accuracy, slipping around her opponents' defenses. Most of the time, Correia relies on the right hand to the body-left hook upstairs and double left hook combinations, but she'll also go to the body with a pair of hooks or flash a jab high before digging low.

This builds further when Correia does manage to trap her opponent against the fence. Then, she gets particularly aggressive with her body shots and will swarm her opponent. If her opponent doesn't move away -- like the exhausted Baszler, for example -- then Correia will simply keep punching.

Finally, Correia is a fairly effective clinch striker. She continues to mix targets at close range and also does a nice job breaking her opponent's posture. Against Baszler, Correia repeatedly framed on the back of her opponent's neck, pushing her down into an exhausting position. From there, she continued to punch with her free hand.

Additionally, Correia did some nice work with elbows. From that aforementioned position, she would turn her framing pressure into an elbow strike. She also came over the top with elbows, allowing her to break the clinch.

It probably won't matter, but that could be a useful skill against Rousey.

It's also worth mentioning that Correia rarely lets her opponent land without answering. This is no complicated slip-and-rip, but whenever Correia takes a shot to the jaw, she does her best to land something in return.

Wrestling

Just as a bit of a warning, the vast majority of all of Correia's fights have taken place on the feet. While there is a shortage of footage of her grappling -- so feel free to take any of this with a grain of salt -- Correia has not yet done anything to prove she's more than an average grappler.

In fact, that might be generous already.

Offensively, Correia has scored just one takedown inside the Octagon. For most of the fight, she failed in her attempts to drag Julie Kedzie to the mat, but a caught low kick changed that and allowed the Brazilian to land a trip.

Defensively, Correia has shown some positive signs. In the clinch -- where Rousey will undoubtedly look to land her throws -- Correia does a nice job framing her opponent's waist and getting her own hips low and away. Plus, she looks to strike within the clinch and use elbows to break away.

On the other hand, Correia does give up takedowns. Duke -- who tries her best to use Judo like Rousey -- managed to throw Correia multiple times, but she lacked the top control to hold onto the position and wound up getting re-rolled instead. She also attempted the classic Rousey-overhook-arm bar attack that the champion lands with ease, but there's a reason Rousey is special, and it's because that move fails most of the time for anyone that isn't her.

In short, Correia allowed clinch takedowns to happen, but mistakes that Rousey won't make also allowed her to get away with it.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Currently a blue belt in jiu-jitsu, Correia has yet to attempt a submission inside the Octagon. In her lone moment of attempted offense from top position, she attempted to move into back mount against the fence and was reversed rather quickly by Kedzie.

On the other hand, Correia has been forced to rely on her defensive jiu-jitsu a few times now. Against both Baszler and Duke, Correia patiently waited for an opportunity to posture out of the rubber guard, and she managed not to leave her limbs behind.

In addition, Correia was forced to defend the front choke by Duke. Despite being in some dangerous positions, Correia did a very nice job hand-fighting and preventing a finishing grip from being formed.

Best Chance For Success

Correia is -- in a word -- fucked.

Her opponent is beyond her skill level by more than a few miles in every single area, and she's also a much better athlete. Besides that, Correia's UFC victories come against two opponents nearing the end of their career and a very green prospect who's currently on a three-fight losing streak.

Meh.

So basically, technical advice here is pointless. Instead, I'd advise "Pitbull" to immediately start talking shit from the onset of the fight. If she can piss off Rousey enough to remain standing, her chances go from nonexistent to extremely remote.

Correia has already laid the ground work for angering Rousey, so at least this strategy has a chance of actually working. It'll probably only lead her to further pain -- a punch-filled beating rather than quick arm bar -- but at least she'll have a chance.

Will Correia somehow pull off her snowball's chance in Hell or will Rousey was again dominate a title challenger?