Manon Fiorot needs UFC title shot, nothing else

Daniel Cormier advises Manon Fiorot to not take one other combat until it’s for the UFC girls’s flyweight title.

Fiorot (12-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) prolonged her successful streak to 12 when she scored a shutout of highly touted contender Erin Blanchfield (12-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) this previous Saturday within the UFC on ESPN 54 primary occasion.

If Fiorot does certainly choose to sit down out, she must anticipate flyweight champion Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko to settle their trilogy, which can happen solely after the airing of Season 32 of “The Final Fighter,” which is at the moment being filmed. “TUF 32” premiers June 4 and sure will air till the tip of summer season.

“If I’m Manon Fiorot, I’m not combating,” Cormier mentioned on his ESPN present “Good Guy/Bad Guy” with Chael Sonnen. “There’s no cause to go from the fights that she has had and take one other one when she’s undefeated within the UFC. She’s seemed more and more higher, and she or he’s simply standing on the verge of her championship alternative.

“I get it. I want to see her combat Maycee Barber. However the way in which she seemed final weekend, she appears to be like like she’s prepared now to combat for the belt, It’s extra possible, in my view, that she weighs in because the backup fighter, she trains alongside that championship combat, and waits to have her alternative.”

Fiorot outstruck Blanchfield over the course of 5 rounds and stuffed her three takedown makes an attempt. Cormier was impressed along with her efficiency and admits she exceeded his expectations.

“Her takedown protection seemed actually good,” Cormier mentioned. “Her putting, as we all know she is thought for, seemed wonderful. She simply appeared to be a step forward of Erin Blanchfield.”

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