MMA News Round-Up: Michael Chandler Brings Bellator Champion Against Conor McGregor, Erin Blanchfield Shines at UFC Vegas 69 & Injury Update

The world of MMA witnessed several noteworthy advancements in the last few hours. But the fans won’t be able to keep an eye on each and every event of the MMA world since they are plenty. So, we are here with one more edition of the MMA news roundup to keep the fans charged with the most noted MMA world occurrences from the last 24 hours.

Today, we start off by having a look at the superb win of Erin Blanchfield over her Flyweight opponent, Jessica Andrade at the UFC Vegas 69. Also, the former UFC Light Heavyweight and Bellator star, Ryan Bader, was revealed to be an assistant coach of Team Chandler. Lastly, the UFC Lightweight prospect, Evan Elder, faced defeat against his UFC Vegas 69 opponent Nazim Sadykhov, with a doctor’s stoppage due to the horrible cut the American suffered over his right eye.

Erin Blanchfield conveys intent to the women’s flyweight division with a victory

UFC Vegas 69 turned out to be a superb event for the popular UFC Flyweight contender, Erin Blanchfield. ‘Cold Blooded’ Blanchfield went on to gain a submission victory over her rival Jessica Andrade in the second round itself.

Andrade looked ahead of her rival in terms of their striking abilities. She also landed a few notable strikes in the initial round. But, even with stellar takedown defense in the first round, the Brazilian was unable to defend herself from being taken to the ground in the second. Blanchfield grabbed onto her exposed back and submitted the Brazilian with a rear naked choke after a few seconds of resistance.

READ MORE – Jon Jones Gives Verdict on Daniel Cormier Beef ‘In All Seriousness’: “Let’s Not Go Too Far Now”

‘Cold Blooded’ also called out the UFC Flyweight queen Valentina Shevchenko after her marvelous victory.

Ryan Bader revealed to be part of team Michael Chandler for TUF 31

The former UFC star and current Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader defeated Fedor Emelianenko on his last outing, which had the Russian MMA legend retiring with a defeat. Recently, Bader disclosed a pleasant surprise to TUF fans as he announced his involvement as an assistant coach in Michael Chandler’s team.

The noted MMA covering Twitter page, ‘MMA Orbit’, publicized this news with a tweet on their page.

The comments section proved that this revelation quite impressed the fans. The MMA fandom was also involved in handing out advice for Conor McGregor following the announcement.

Evan Elder tasted defeat after a terrible cut led to a doctor stoppage

UFC lightweight star Evan Elder didn’t have a favorable outing at UFC Vegas 69. Despite starting off quite strong, things turned unruly for ‘the American’ in the third round. Elder suffered a horrific cut over his right forehead.

Watch this Story – Jon Jones UFC deal compared to Francis Ngannou and Brock Lesnar

Initially, a lot of fans thought that a knee from his opponent, Nazim Sadykhov caused the deep cut. But later, ‘The Phenom’ himself pointed to a different cause that lead to the injury. He stated that it was a clash of heads that caused this severe bruise.

The UFC supremo, Dana White, initially questioned the stoppage but said that he would “STFU” after he took a closer look at the injury over Elder’s right eye.