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Paige VanZant Preparing For UFC Return After Frustrating Layoff

Paige VanZant has been cleared to train and is hungry to fight again.

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Paige VanZant preparing to make her return to the Octagon under the UFC banner after being out of action for quite some time. VanZant is coming off her latest surgery as she continues to recover in order to have her sights set on returning.

VanZant showed off her toughness in her fight with Jessica-Rose Clark in the co-main event of UFC St. Louis (Fight Night 124) at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She walked away with a unanimous decision loss to Clark.

She had surgery shortly after the flyweight contest for a broken arm. It was later revealed that the healing process wasn’t going well, which ultimately led to her having a second procedure.

This was done to make a complete recovery and forced her to be in a four-hour operation. During this surgery, the doctors had to take bone fragments were taken from the hip and moved to the arm.

Paige VanZant Ready To Compete

In a recent interview, VanZant stated that seeing the other fighters in her division progress in their careers makes her jealous. However, that has forced her to have a lot of aggression.

“It makes me really jealous,” VanZant told MMAjunkie. “I have a lot of built-up energy and aggression right now, so he gets to take all of that. It’s really fun.”

This isn’t the first time that she has had a break as she did it back in 2016. At the time, it was her decision to do so to compete on “Dancing with the Stars.” With this break not being her choice, it was a different experience.

“This one was different because it wasn’t by choice,” VanZant said. “And having something this important taken away from you. And be told that you kind of just have to sit and watch is awful.”

The good news for the prospect is the fact that she has been cleared to train once again for cardio purposes. Now, she hopes to be cleared to go into full-on training that includes striking.

“And what made it even worse is I kind of anticipated like a typical surgery and a typical timeline for that. I thought I would be back training in eight weeks, and it’s been nine months. And two surgeries and then hip surgery that will help, like, fix the arm. So it’s been a very long process that I didn’t anticipate having to go through.”

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Coach Reveals Why He Let Paige VanZant Fight Through Serious Injury

Paige Vanzant has the heart of a heavyweight in a women’s flyweight frame. In spite of a seriously broken arm, “12 Gauge” persevered and fought on, even though the break ended up being a massive fracture. Her coach and former mixed martial artist Fabiano Scherner insists that even though she said she had broken her […]

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Paige Vanzant has the heart of a heavyweight in a women’s flyweight frame. In spite of a seriously broken arm, “12 Gauge” persevered and fought on, even though the break ended up being a massive fracture.

Her coach and former mixed martial artist Fabiano Scherner insists that even though she said she had broken her arm, he couldn’t even notice a difference as she kept on fighting in a losing effort to Jessica Rose-Clark at UFC Saint Louis on Sunday:

“I was asking her to stay away from the clinch and keep the distance to use her boxing and kickboxing, and she said, ‘My arm is broken. She wasn’t feeling any pain, so I thought it could be a fissure, that sometimes hurts as much as a fracture. She said she fractured it in the first round, but she didn’t remember that the spinning back fist was in the second round.”

“Everything that happened in the second round led me to believe that it wasn’t a serious injury because the way she continued fighting, you couldn’t notice it. I went back to the corner and asked the other coaches if they thought it was really broken, and they couldn’t give me a concrete answer. I kept telling her to hit with the right hand, and when I saw that she wasn’t throwing punches, I knew it was more serious than I thought.”

Scherner says he didn’t make an effort to stop the fight because PVZ didn’t look to be in any pain, and that she thanked him after the fight for not trying to stop it:

“I let the fight play out because at any moment she… She wasn’t using her right hand, but I was looking at her face and she didn’t appear to be in pain or anything like that, so I thought it was serious but that she could continue,” he said. “I didn’t think about throwing in the towel. We spoke about it after the fight and I saw the X-ray, I apologized to her for making that call, and she said, ‘It was the right call because I wanted to go back and continue fighting. I would be disappointed if you had stopped the fight.’ I think it was the right call because she really wanted to go back.”

Should the fight have been stopped due to PVZ’s broken arm? Do you agree with her coach in letting the fight continue?

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Coach Reveals Why He Let Paige VanZant Fight Through Serious Injury

Paige Vanzant has the heart of a heavyweight in a women’s flyweight frame. In spite of a seriously broken arm, “12 Gauge” persevered and fought on, even though the break ended up being a massive fracture. Her coach and former mixed martial artist Fabiano Scherner insists that even though she said she had broken her […]

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Paige Vanzant has the heart of a heavyweight in a women’s flyweight frame. In spite of a seriously broken arm, “12 Gauge” persevered and fought on, even though the break ended up being a massive fracture.

Her coach and former mixed martial artist Fabiano Scherner insists that even though she said she had broken her arm, he couldn’t even notice a difference as she kept on fighting in a losing effort to Jessica Rose-Clark at UFC Saint Louis on Sunday:

“I was asking her to stay away from the clinch and keep the distance to use her boxing and kickboxing, and she said, ‘My arm is broken. She wasn’t feeling any pain, so I thought it could be a fissure, that sometimes hurts as much as a fracture. She said she fractured it in the first round, but she didn’t remember that the spinning back fist was in the second round.”

“Everything that happened in the second round led me to believe that it wasn’t a serious injury because the way she continued fighting, you couldn’t notice it. I went back to the corner and asked the other coaches if they thought it was really broken, and they couldn’t give me a concrete answer. I kept telling her to hit with the right hand, and when I saw that she wasn’t throwing punches, I knew it was more serious than I thought.”

Scherner says he didn’t make an effort to stop the fight because PVZ didn’t look to be in any pain, and that she thanked him after the fight for not trying to stop it:

“I let the fight play out because at any moment she… She wasn’t using her right hand, but I was looking at her face and she didn’t appear to be in pain or anything like that, so I thought it was serious but that she could continue,” he said. “I didn’t think about throwing in the towel. We spoke about it after the fight and I saw the X-ray, I apologized to her for making that call, and she said, ‘It was the right call because I wanted to go back and continue fighting. I would be disappointed if you had stopped the fight.’ I think it was the right call because she really wanted to go back.”

Should the fight have been stopped due to PVZ’s broken arm? Do you agree with her coach in letting the fight continue?

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