For the first time Erin Blancfield appeared in a main event, it was a bit a bit two years ago, when she gave the title of a UFC Fight Night Card in Apex against Jessica Andred. You will remember how he went down. Endered came out of headhinting until Blancfield shot for his first takedown in the second round, immediately took side control, then the commentators actually drowned a rear-naked choke before their notes came into the flesh.
Then Blancfield arrived for the first time. She was only 23 years old at that time.
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Nevertheless, his second main program may be one that comes to define him. Or at least, the fight that he hopes is the championship run.
A showroom booked against Manon Firot in Atlantic City came in his home state of New Jersey in the last spring. It was a biased crowd in the boardwalk hall, there to see the upstart blanchfield-which was at the point 6–0 in the UFC and took the nickname of “cold-blooded”-punched her ticket for a title shot.
Still what happened was close to the vertigo of existence. Fiorot closed her for five full rounds, all presented the Blanchfield’s most prominent potential for women – pressure, speed, distance management and changes of levels – all.
Fiorot got a plan to Blanchfield. Forced to produce the problem, there was no plan B until that point, plan A always worked.
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Yet sometimes a hard night in the office actually requires a young fighter, one night when you are forced to look at your shortcomings more closely. If 26 -year -old blanchfield’s rebound performance against Namazunas in November is a signal, the old fight game saying is still true: “You learn more than your loss …”
Erin Blancfield punched Namazunas daily in a flyweight battle at a flyweight battle during a UFC Fight Night event at Rogers Place at Edmonton, Alberta on November 2, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Botari/Zafa LLC)
(Through Jeff Botary Getty Image)
“I think you really do,” Blancfield told Ancresed. “I have done some harm in my career, and I think I have learned the most after getting lost because it really pushes you. You don’t want to lose again, and it really reveals your weaknesses. I think I was able to look back on it [Fiorot] Fight and adjust and come back and start building a re -winning line. ,
She can register two consecutive wins if she can take care of the business, which will be her third main event against Maysey Barber in Apex on Saturday. It has not officially dubbed a title eliminator in the women’s flyweight division, but somehow a loud win can definitely bold matchmakers. Right now, Brazil’s Natalia Silva sits as the number 1 contender for the champion Valentina Shavechhenko, and is always likely to move forward to try to win a second title.
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Nobody matters for Blancfield, which has revolved the title for the last few years. Whenever it comes around the spotlight, she knows the importance of making a case in business recently.
She says, “I think it’s really a good win, like a finish on Saturday, it can put me in a title picture correctly,” she says. “I have been fighting the top five for the last two years, so I think it’s really a good experience for me and when I get that title shot, I am preparing me for just.
“But I don’t think there is a hurry there [to get the title shot]I have been in the top five for some time, but I think people forget how small I was in the top five, only 23 when I first went inside. So I think I needed that experience and I needed those quarrels, so whatever it is, I know that I am planning to be undisputed and conquer and improve, so I will reach there. ,
If he and the barber share a connection, it is both still Young (the barber turns just 27 years old), both have fulfilled the high expectations because they were ridiculous Young (When the barber was 21 years old, she vowed to become the youngest shampoo in the UFC history, until 10 to 1 underdog Rocks Rocks harasses her), and both have been tested as a ceasefire (the hatred for Alexa Grasso was all out of the top -10).
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If anything, this weekend battle is to serve as a reminder. Young movement is still going on too much. The incident of that tomorrow is now taking experience. The growth of the blanchfield lies in the details of the Namazunas battle, which was taking a bad turn – like the ferot bout.
Namajunas was organizing courts in the first two rounds. It seemed that the blanchfield was moving towards each other direct loss, yet this time she was able to remove the slow start.
“He is actually a good boxer,” Blancfield says about Namjunas. “I think she made me a little bit like the first two rounds. She was like closing her shots, and she was really competing well. But I was able to get my Tekdown in the third round and then in the fourth round I drove her out.”
When the vintage “cold-bladed” blanchfield began to handle it.
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“I could feel that I was beating her there, and then in the fifth round I was able to take her down again and defeated her from there. I had a slight start, but she was really talented and then I was able to build as a fight.”
When the blanchfield was coming, she will overwhelm the people where the fight will take place. He pulled JJ Aldrich into deep water before depositing him in the second round. All of them ruined the promotion of Molly McCain, which was an loped affair in the UFC 281. He controlled Miranda Mavric and Tail Santos such as holding them in custody, racking at the time of control, who made them very happy. What Blancfield likes to do, mentally and physically breaks a rival.
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In fact, she has been so estimated that some people have accused her that no word wants a fight.
boring.
“I wouldn’t say that I am a boring fighter,” says Blancfield. “I would say that I am a technical fighter. I try to bring the battle where I want to fight, to make it my fight. I think I have done a lot of finish. I have got a lot of finish with my GU-Jitsu, and I want to get some finish with my striking. My goal always tries to finish people.”
He will get another chance against a fighter on Saturday, which led the chorus to say that Blancfield is boring. Never pay attention that the barber has only one finish in the last six years (up to five of the blanchfield), a little bad blood never hurts.
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,[Maycee]Blancfield says, “I am planning to go there and end it on Saturday. I mean, I know that people always say that they need to talk, right? They need to talk about whether they are trying to build a fight or feel better themselves, so that’s where I kept it. ,
Where Blancfield has always talked out loud, it is in Octagon. Namazunas Fight told us that she had returned. To determine the fight back on your terms. Back to get people out.
People become a question instead of becoming a champion instead of becoming a champion.
“I think you can tell [when somebody is breaking]Especially when people start gesing, they must be taking these deep breaths, “she says, almost very happy.” I have been in quarrels where I am fighting with them and I have seen them taking a big breath and are like you, ‘Oh, I know you are tired, this is my time.’ Or you feel them falling under your attacks. So, yes, there are moments you can feel that you are breaking someone. ,