EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada – Erin Blanchfield hasn’t skilled loss an excessive amount of as knowledgeable blended martial artist, however she’s nonetheless conversant in it.
At UFC Combat Evening 246 on Saturday, Blanchfield (12-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) goals to bounce again from a largely one-sided March unanimous choice defeat to Manon Fiorot. The loss was the primary noncontroversial certainly one of her professional profession.
“Shedding all the time sucks and it takes a bit getting over,” Blanchfield informed MMA Junkie and different reporters at a pre-fight information convention Wednesday. “I didn’t harp on it for too lengthy. I simply let my physique heal from the combat after which I used to be again to coaching. Yeah, I really feel like me and my coaches watched over it. We discovered issues we needed to enhance on, my distance administration and my placing and my wrestling and all the pieces as I all the time do. So I type of targeted on that.”
Blanchfield, 25, constructed the repute as a fight sports activities prodigy from her early grappling successes to her fast rise via the UFC ranks. Whereas outsiders might need seen the loss as a window for self-doubt to rear its ugly head, Blanchfield has eliminated all emotion from the defeat and stays agency in placing all the pieces in relative perspective.
“I feel it’s simply from competing my entire life,” Blanchfield mentioned. “I’ve grown up competing since I used to be eight years previous. You win so much, you lose so much. It’s one thing that you just all the time should study from and develop from, not take it too exhausting, not harp on it an excessive amount of. I feel folks actually get down on themselves.
“Actually, it’s only a sport on the finish of the day and it’s a must to deal with it like children would. You simply stand up and get again to coaching and give attention to the issues it is advisable enhance on. I feel I had plenty of time after that combat to do this and time to only practice, not have a combat, after which lastly have a combat and have a camp and really feel actually good.”
Even with the setback, Blanchfield has a chance to reaffirm her place as a possible future title challenger when she faces former champion Rose Namajunas (13-6 MMA, 11-5 UFC) in Saturday’s co-main occasion at Rogers Place.
“I feel Manon (Fiorot) is certainly getting the title subsequent and I feel having a very good efficiency Saturday, like getting a end over Rose positively places me in that title image subsequent,” Blanchfield mentioned.”
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