Erin Blanchfield preparing for her flyweight bout against Manon Fiorot at the UFC Fight Night event in Atlantic City, New Jersey Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

The last time Erin Blanchfield competed at Madison Square Garden couldn’t have gone any better from the moment the referee said, “Let’s go,” to the adulation she earned from the masses for her utter dominance against Molly McCann.

OK, there’s one thing that wasn’t ideal from that momentous November 2022 night: a crowd much more vocal in its pre-fight support for McCann — whose vocal fans traveled well across the pond from England — than Blanchfield, the Elmwood Park, N.J., native whose parents are from the city.

“I was there at the fight, and I just remember kind of being shocked and kind of arguing with the whole crowd,” teammate F

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