A pivotal women’s flyweight matchup has been removed from the next
Ultimate Fighting Championship numbered event.
Erin
Blanchfield‘s bout against Jasmine
Jasudavicius has been scrapped from the Aug. 15 card at Xfinity
Mobile Arena in Philadelphia due to an injury on Blanchfield’s end,
per MMA Junkie’s Nolan King. The promotion is reportedly looking to
rebook the contest for a UFC Fight Night event on Oct. 17 at Rogers
Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, instead.
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The withdrawal marks the first time Blanchfield has been forced out
of a fight during her UFC tenure. She is on a two-fight win streak,
beating Rose
Namajunas and Tracy
Cortez in her most recent Octagon appearances.
Meanwhile, Jasudavicius was looking to build on a unanimous
decision win over Karine
Silva in April. With her clash with Blanchfield now being
targeted for the next UFC event in Canada, she’ll have the crowd
behind her when they eventually collide.
The UFC 330 lineup is currently as follows:
Islam
Makhachev vs. Ian Machado
Garry – for welterweight title
Mackenzie
Dern vs. Gillian
Robertson – for women’s strawweight title
Edson
Barboza vs. Esteban
Ribovics
Tresean
Gore vs. Vicente
Luque
Mansur
Abdul-Malik vs. Dustin
Stoltzfus
Myktybek
Orolbai vs. Jeremiah
Wells
Geoff
Neal vs. Chidi
Njokuani
Ramiz
Brahimaj vs. Neil
Magny
Kaue
Fernandes vs. Jalin
Turner
Charles
Johnson vs. Jose
Ochoa
Lucas
Fernando vs. Rafael
Tobias
Donte
Johnson vs. Eric
McConico