Erin Blanchfield isn’t on a quest to be the youngest woman to win a UFC championship.
“It was always something I could do because I started so young. I went pro at 18,” Blanchfield recently told The Post via video call. “Fighting’s hard enough. It’s kind of like unnecessary pressure. You know what I mean?Winning the championship would be enough to satisfy the 24-year-old, but last month’s victory over recent flyweight title challenger Taila Santos, coupled with the No.
As much as Blanchfield doesn’t get caught up in numbers — such as the roughly 12 months she has to best Namajunas as the youngest-ever female UFC champ — she’s wily enough to recognize the promotional power such a possibility has and how that could help her get closer, faster to the title. Blanchfield carried a three-fight streak of submission victories into the Santos fight in Singapore on Aug. 26, including a one-sided mangling on the mat of Molly McCann at Madison Square Garden last November.
It didn’t go as smoothly to start against Santos, whose base is in Muay Thai, and Blanchfield sported the effects of the absorbed strikes with two black eyes in the days after the victory.As Santos tired, the opportunity opened for Blanchfield to gain the upper hand on the feet, even tagging Santos with perhaps the hardest strikes of the whole fight in the third and deciding round.
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