{"id":279409,"date":"2025-11-13T01:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279409\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:57:12","slug":"tracy-cortez-targets-title-shot-with-erin-blanchfield-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279409\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Cortez targets title shot with Erin Blanchfield rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cortez and Blanchfield first fought back in 2019 under the Invicta FC banner<\/a>, where Cortez won a highly controversial split decision. Most fans and media outlets scored the fight for Blanchfield, and the result changed both of their careers \u2014 Cortez earned an invite to Contender Series and quickly signed with UFC, while Blanchfield had to grind through three more fights before getting her own call in 2021.<\/p>\n

Now, the timing finally feels right. Cortez, who UFC has consistently pushed despite her inactivity, believes a win over her longtime rival could be her ticket to a title shot \u2014 especially with the Flyweight belt being defended on the same card.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is competing for the No. 4 spot, possibly No. 3 \u2014 call me crazy, but winning this [fight], I could be a title challenger,\u201d Cortez told UFC.com during media day. \u201cEven saying that it\u2019s, I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself, but a dream come true. It\u2019s what I worked so hard for, and I\u2019m extremely focused right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a journey,\u201d Cortez added. \u201cIt has taken me a lot longer than I would have liked, but being here now, and the road getting here \u2014 everything happens for a reason. All the setbacks, all the injuries, all the delays\u2026the timing is perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cortez and Blanchfield first fought back in 2019 under the Invicta FC banner, where Cortez won a highly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,127022,33601,638,109794,82,127021,702,3194],"class_list":["post-279409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-preview-and-live-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-322-fight-card","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}