The UFC travels to Atlantic City for a serious women’s flyweight title eliminator between Erin Blanchfield and Manon Fiorot. Both women have a tough opportunity in front of them in Atlantic City, risking everything they have worked so hard for against an opponent who can send them back to square one.
Erin Blanchfield has been a wrecking machine in the women’s flyweight division since her debut. The rise to title contention has been meteoric and a win over Manon Fiorot would leave no doubt that she will be next for a championship fight.
The title contention talk with Manon Fiorot‘s name in the discussion has been pretty quiet, but that seems to have motivated her as she has stormed her way to this title eliminator fight with Erin Blanchfield.
Words can’t describe how exciting this fight is – it could potentially be a fight we remember for a long time. The UFC Atlantic City fight card has something for every fight fan; top to bottom it is a stacked card and it will be exciting to see whether Manon Fiorot or Erin Blanchfield ends up as the next contender for a title shot.
Full weigh-in results for UFC Atlantic City can be found below.
UFC Atlantic City Main Card
Women’s Flyweight – Erin Blanchfield (125) vs. Manon Fiorot (125.25)
Welterweight – Vicente Luque (170) vs. Joaquin Buckley (170)
Middleweight – Chris Weidman (186) vs. Bruno Silva (186)
Middleweight – Nursulton Ruziboev (185) vs. Sedriques Dumas (185)
Featherweight – Bill Algeo (146) vs. Kyle Nelson (145)
Welterweight – Chidi Njokuani (170) vs. Rhys McKee (170.25)
Preliminary Card
Featherweight – Nate Landwehr (145.25) vs. Jamall Emmers (145)
Women’s Strawweight – Virna Jandiroba (115) vs. Loopy Godínez (115)
Featherweight – Julio Arce (147)* vs. Herbert Burns (145)
Featherweight – Dennis Buzukja (145.25) vs. Connor Matthews (145)
Light heavyweight – Ibo Aslan (205) vs. Anton Turkalj (205)
Women’s Flyweight – Viktoriia Dudakova (125) vs. Melissa Gatto (125)
Middleweight – Andre Petroski (186) vs. Jacob Malkoun (185)
Bantamweight – Angel Pacheco (135) vs. Caolán Loughran (135)
* indicates missed weight: Julio Arce missed weight by 1lb for his fight against Herbert Burns.
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