Ailín Pérez and Norma Dumont are ranked at quantity two and three, respectively, following their conflict with a fellow ranked bantamweight scoping both combatant for her subsequent combat. That blended martial artist in query is Melissa Croden who takes on Chelsea Chandler at UFC Edmonton on October seventeenth. Chandler enters the cage because the quantity fifteen ranked 135 pound fighter within the firm whereas Croden at present sits at quantity 9 inside the divisional hierarchy.
In discussing the current Pérez vs. Dumont combat, relative to the truth that it’s a related combat inside the division the Alberta-based competitor can be surging in, Croden mentioned [via MMA Canada],
“I watched a couple of bits of it. It sounded prefer it was fairly inactive. Relying on how this subsequent combat goes, I’m assuming I’ll be combating one among them or getting near combating one among them quickly. So yeah, I feel the bantamweight division proper now could be fairly shallow. In order that’s why I’ve in all probability climbed the rankings sooner than I believed I used to be going to as a result of I’ve been energetic.”
“I’ve a couple of wins and the division is shallow. So, yeah, I feel that everybody that’s within the high 10 are fairly shut in ability. So I feel any match that I’d get inside the high 10 shall be a great problem, but additionally they’re beatable. I feel all people’s beatable, together with myself. So yeah, it’s only a matter of preparation and the way you present up on the night time, truthfully.”
Ailín Pérez and Norma Dumont are nonetheless feuding after their polarizing UFC contest
Ailín Pérez and Norma Dumont don’t have any love misplaced between them even after throwing down, with the previous revealing a threatening DM not too long ago despatched to her by the latter. Pérez edged out Dumont by the use of a break up choice, which some appeared to name into query because the mud settled on a combat that had quite a lot of trash discuss main in however was described as pretty inactive and tepid as soon as the cage door was locked.
Throughout a current interview on The Ariel Helwani Present, the place the Argentinian fighter touched on what the direct message from her Brazilian adversary conveyed, Pérez acknowledged [via MMA Sucka],
“Humorous sufficient, after the combat, she truly wrote to me personally in my Instagram. And she or he truly advised me that after the combat, she’s going to search out me and beat the sh*t out of me.”
The reported Dumont message, translated from Portuguese to English, reads as follows,
“I already hit you as soon as, and I’m going to hit you once more after I see you. You already know that you just didn’t win.”
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