The UFC Vegas 107 combat card on Saturday was imagined to be headlined by a ladies’s flyweight bout between No. 4 ranked Erin Blanchfield and No. 5 ranked Maycee Barber. Neither fighter ended up stepping foot contained in the octagon on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
As a consequence of a Barber medical subject and never being cleared to combat moments earlier than make the stroll to the octagon, the bout was abruptly cancelled. In the course of the occasion’s post-fight press convention, Blanchfield ripped Barber.
“I really feel like I am in fairly disbelief proper now. I really feel like I used to be in disbelief yesterday when she missed weight as a result of we have recognized about this combat since January. You could possibly have been 50 kilos chubby and nonetheless made weight,” Blanchfield stated.
“So she missed weight. She will get to Saturday. She will get to the locker room. I am totally able to go. She’s imagined to be able to go. Supposedly she has all these well being points proper earlier than we’re imagined to combat. I believe it is fairly loopy, fairly unprofessional. I would not need to combat her once more,” Blanchfield continued. “I might not need to ebook one other combat along with her.”
The combat promotion did not disclose what medical subject Barber was coping with on Saturday, however Blanchfield shared what she was instructed.
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“I used to be instructed she had a seizure within the locker room. I do not know the way or why precisely that was precipitated, however that is what I used to be instructed,” Blanchfield stated.
“I used to be actually instructed, ‘six minutes till walkout.’ It was already six minutes. I believed I used to be being instructed, okay, it is time to go after which Hunter [Campbell] is available in and tells me what occurred. It is fairly loopy.”
Blanchfield had no sympathy for Barber. She berated the High 5 contender and provided some brutal recommendation.
“She wants to take a look at one other division. She wants to repair her life. She simply wants to repair herself,” Blanchfield stated. “I believe she’s an entire mess in each side of her whole life.”
Erin Blanchfield missed a chance
Blanchfield would have entered the bout having gained 10 of her final 11 fights and was coming off a choice win over former two-time strawweight titleholder Rose Namajunas. With a strong efficiency, she might have earned a title shot. When Barber could not compete, Blanchfield misplaced a giant alternative.
“This combat was presumably a contenders combat,” Blanchfield stated. “I used to be actually able to placed on a present tonight. It positively leaves me in a little bit of a bizarre place. I imply I do know there’s different ladies within the High 5 that I might combat. I suppose we’ll simply have to return and reassess.”
