Former UFC strawweight and flyweight contender, Paige VanZant has did not fully rule out a return to combined martial arts competitors sooner or later — claiming it will be “exhausting” for her to enter a cage once more, itemizing the slew of arm accidents she has suffered throughout competitors.
VanZant, who continues to be at present signed to the BKFC (Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship), will make her sophomore look subsequent week in Energy Slap, taking up Christine Volmarans again in June, and incomes a unanimous choice win in controversial circumstances.
Returning within the Center East subsequent week, Oregon native, VanZant will tackle Chelsea Dodson at a Energy Slap 9 occasion.
And with out a stroll to the cage since her 2020 look on ‘Combat Island’ in Abu Dhabi, VanZant, a former contender on the strawweight restrict within the UFC, struggling a one-sided armbar submission defeat to Amanda Ribas, earlier than struggling back-to-back choice losses to each Britain Hart after which Rachael Ostovich in her two outings with the BKFC.
Paige VanZant casts doubt on ever returning to MMA
Discussing a possible return to combined martial arts competitors forward of her Energy Slap return subsequent 12 months, VanZant claimed that whereas he may by no means be certain if her time inside a cage had come to an finish, she forged extreme doubt on her strapping on gloves once more sooner or later.
“I don’t ever prefer to say I’m closing the door 100%, however I do see it will be exhausting for me to return into MMA,” Paige VanZant instructed MMA Junkie. “Not as a result of I don’t find it irresistible or not as a result of I don’t have a ardour for it nonetheless, however like I mentioned, I broke my arm 5 occasions in my life and 4 occasions in principally two years of competing.”
“I had two surgical procedures on it, and I nonetheless have an enormous plate that runs the size of my whole forearm,” Paige VanZant defined. “So simply going again to that place of risking breaking my arm once more and having surgical procedure once more and getting set again, I can nonetheless have the joys of competing, and I can nonetheless get that rush with out placing my physique in danger. One I’m advantageous if I break my arm, it’s actually simply the psychological fortitude, I don’t know if I can push by way of that once more. It was a extremely, actually tough few years.”
