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Erin Blanchfield and Manon Fiorot will be facing each other on Saturday, March 30 at UFC Fight Night Atlantic City.
While no main event is set for the card at this time, Blanchfield would like to see her bout with Fiorot get those honors.
“I don’t know yet,” Blanchfield told MMA Junkie. “I’m pushing, I want it to be a main event. I’d love to fight five rounds. I feel like that fits my style really well, and prepping myself for a title fight, I think going five rounds would be super beneficial. So I don’t know for sure, but I’m going to push for five rounds.”
If the bout were to headline the card, it would be Blanchfield’s second UFC main event and the first for Fiorot.
Blanchfield also knows that she will have a lot of support from her friends and family when she competes at UFC Atlantic City.
“I have a lot of family in the city, and MSG was always a big goal for me,” Blanchfield said. “I mean who wouldn’t want to fight at MSG? So that was a huge goal. But fighting in my home state, I mean, I was raised here, I went to school here, trained here my entire life in Jersey. So I think being a main event in Atlantic City would be so awesome. I feel like I’d bring a crowd, too. Everyone I know lives here, everyone I train with, so that would be super special. It would be something to remember.”
