Maycee Barber isn’t impressed with Erin Blanchfield’s makes an attempt at trash speak. She’s not too keen on her combating type both.
Following a year-long hiatus, Barber will step again contained in the Octagon this Saturday night time (Might 31) for a flyweight headliner towards Blanchfield at UFC Vegas 107.
Sitting on a six-fight win streak, Barber is not any stranger to some fiery trash speak forward of her scraps, however ‘The Future’ has been uncharacteristically quiet within the lead-up to her long-awaited return.
No less than, she was till Blanchfield determined to fireside a shot at her flyweight foe, questioning Barber’s reliability after pulling out of a beforehand scheduled struggle between the 2 in 2021.
“Yeah, a bit of little bit of fear,” Blanchfield advised MMA Preventing. “As a result of Maycee is somebody that has pulled out of fights fairly continuously. She has a historical past of that. There’s all the time a fear however that would occur with anybody on the similar time.
“Quite a lot of the opposite high flyweights have been already booked as a result of they have been booked [at UFC 315]. I believe it simply made sense and to date she’s nonetheless within the struggle so hopefully it stays that approach.”
Maycee Barber questions erin Blanchfield’s ‘Dumb’ feedback
Barber rapidly fired again at Blanchfield throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Present, taking purpose on the New Jersey native’s “horrible combating type.”
“I believe [her comments] have been dumb,” Barber stated. “It doesn’t make sense for her to say I’m going to drag out when I’ve a historical past of pulling out of fights. I’ve solely pulled out of two fights complete, each for critical causes. The primary time, I tore my ankle in 5 locations. It’s a bizarre factor to say.
“I believe she’s simply looking for one thing damaging to say about me as a result of she will be able to’t criticize my combating type or marketability. The one factor she will be able to say is that I may not present up—versus her, whose combating type is horrible. There’s rather a lot you possibly can say about Erin Blanchfield; she’s a boring fighter with a horrible combating type.”
With Blanchfield and Barber holding issues down because the fourth and fifth-ranked contenders within the flyweight division, Saturday’s scrap inside The APEX may produce the following title challenger for reigning 125-pound queen Valentina Shevchenko.
