Paige VanZant desires to battle once more, however she’s not precisely sure when which may occur.
The previous UFC fighter turned bare-knuckle brawler hasn’t competed since 2021 when she dropped a unanimous choice to Rachael Ostovich in her second look in BKFC. VanZant was initially scheduled to battle on the BKFC card in London in August 2022 however her bout was scrapped simply days earlier than the occasion befell — and the cancellation wasn’t by her selection.
It seems the drama surrounding that ordeal put VanZant in a nasty place the place her battle profession was involved, which was a part of the explanation she opted for an extended hiatus afterwards.
“So, after all the final battle that I used to be purported to have for BKFC, the battle obtained pulled the week of the battle,” VanZant defined throughout an Instagram. “I had reduce all my weight, I used to be so excited to battle, I obtained mega depressed.
“So, I took a bit of little bit of break day and I’m again within the health club, coaching one hundred pc now. And I really feel like I’m in a extremely good place, the place I’m coaching for enjoyable and to get higher. Not simply to organize for a battle.”
VanZant trains at American Prime Staff in Florida alongside her husband, Bellator competitor Austin Vanderford, and he or she’s lately began posting extra movies and pictures exhibiting her again within the health club once more.
Financially, VanZant not must battle after she launched a wildly profitable web site and OnlyFans web page that remodeled her right into a millionaire nearly in a single day. VanZant beforehand instructed MMA Preventing that she might “retire tomorrow and be financially free” for the remainder of her life.
That stated, VanZant nonetheless desires to battle once more however she received’t plot her return till she’s really prepared.
“I need to proceed, simply type of doing this, what I’m doing proper now,” VanZant stated. “Coaching to have enjoyable, to get higher and study after which as soon as I really feel, like I’m determined to battle — which I do actually need to — however as soon as I really feel like I’m mentally and bodily ready, then I’m going to take a battle.
“I don’t need to simply take a battle as a result of I need to. I need to actually really feel it in my physique, that I’m prepared. So, it’s coming although. I’m working actually laborious.”
BKFC president David Feldman stated he would gladly welcome VanZant again within the fold when she’s able to compete once more after the upstart promotion inked her to a profitable contract following the tip of her UFC profession.
“I feel she desires yet another crack at it,” Feldman instructed MMA Preventing in Might. “I do know that I need to give her yet another crack at it, so I feel we’re going to have at the least yet another run there.”
