Maycee Barber's Scary UFC Collapse: What This Means for her, the UFC, and Erin Blanchfield

Peter Klein

In one of the most shocking moments of the UFC Fight Night this weekend, Maycee Barber's main event bout was canceled during the broadcast after she suffered a reported seizure backstage. In this video, I break down what happened, the timeline leading up to the cancellation, and how this affects her title hopes — plus, the impact on Erin Blanchfield and the UFC women’s flyweight division as a whole.  ⚠️ This segment aims to strike a balance between concern for Barber’s health and the legitimate frustrations that come from repeated issues like missing weight and losing major fight opportunities.  🎙 This clip is from Couch Potato Diary — your home for grounded, honest takes on combat sports and beyond.  💬 What do YOU think the UFC should do next with Maycee Barber? Drop your thoughts below.  👊 Subscribe for more UFC & MMA coverage  #UFC #MacyBarber #MMA #WeightCutting 🔗 Stay Connected & Support the Show Tip → https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip 🎧 Listen & Subscribe:  Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-potato-diary/id1564122189  Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM 🧠 Partners & Promos:  C of Dead Apparel → https://www.cofdead403.ca/  Swift Energy → https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm  🎁 Use Promo Code: PKPrimetime for 25% off! 📲 Follow Me:  Twitter (X) → https://x.com/primetimeklein  Instagram → https://instagram.com/primetimeklein  Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary  Twitch → https://twitch.tv/primetimepk 📬 Business Inquiries & Fan Mail:  Email → couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com

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00:00so the ultimate fighting championship going into a pay-per-view weekend excitement is high and they

00:20were looking to build that momentum with a fight that could have decided a new title challenger

00:24with aaron blanchfield taking on macy barber and then friday happens and macy barber misses weight

00:31and just looks like she's not doing good and then saturday happens and it's all right we get the walk

00:38up and that's still not looking awesome and live lines are going crazy and all of that and then

00:44we come back from commercial break it's time for the main event which you all just saw because the

00:50last fight isn't happening uh macy barber pulls out and a scary medical situation with seizures and

00:57the the like and so that is it it is very very very scary so that it makes it a difficult situation to

01:05discuss because on the one hand um if you're having seizures you should not be fighting and that that

01:12is a very scary very real thing to be dealing with and then you think about like how bad it could have

01:18been if she was making her way to the cage or heaven forbid in the midst of a fist fight and all

01:27of a sudden starts having seizures like that then then we're getting to very grave territory with that

01:34so the seriousness of the seriousness of this does make the actual mma aspect of it feel just a little

01:42bit like okay what are we doing here but there are real life things to go along with this as well the

01:47one part of it and that the part that i think is given a lot of ufc fans and mma fans in general

01:52just kind of carte blanche to go nuts on it is this isn't the first time i mean it's the first time

02:00it's been this serious but it's not the first time barbara's missed weight it's not the first time that

02:04she's had to pull out of a fight it's definitely the latest but it's not the first time she's had to

02:08pull out of a fight and it was kind of the whole lead up to it is that like you go back 2023 she has

02:15a win over amanda limos and then it's basically a year until she fights in 2024 and now it's basically

02:20a year between 2025 but at the 2024 fight we're like okay the girls figured it out she she is at

02:26the point now that she has grown into the contender that we think she can be she has figured a few things

02:33out and then x y and z happens outside of camp and now it doesn't seem like she has figured it out

02:40it just seems like there's always something with her and so that is why like it's the most serious

02:47one if it was the only one the conversation would be different but because it's the it's a serious

02:52serious one but i don't think that eliminates all the other things i don't know it does seem

02:57convenient to say that while she had a bad weight cut and thus has seizures that seems like a pretty

03:04straight line for us to draw medically i don't know but still like to blanchfield's point um they've

03:10known about this fight since january to miss weight is inexcusable and to have your body be at a point

03:18where people are saying oh she had seizures because of this that's that's just not proper management

03:24and i i am not here to talk about uh the cosmetic moves that she made in the the lead up to this

03:30that some people are saying could have caused weight problems uh weight cutting problems i don't i don't

03:36know but for this situation it is it's again it's scary but it is frustrating because you have someone

03:45who's obviously talented and who people have seen is talented for a really long time but there has been

03:52at first there was a lack of skill development like i don't know if she just wasn't working on

03:57it or it just wasn't clicking or what but the the the high level prospect that we saw move up the ranks

04:03on the regional scene and then get to the ufc the progression stopped and so i don't know if it was

04:08just well i could do it against them why can't i do it against here i'm just gonna whatever and so

04:12you kind of coast and you don't grow into the prospect that you should but now that you're getting

04:16to where you should be now you're getting in your own way again with different reasons for pulling out

04:22now a weight cutting problem here on saturday or on on friday and then the major issue on saturday so

04:28it just feels so frustrating because they're you do like alternate timelines of this there are a

04:37number of them where macy barber is a ufc champion but just this one it feels weird to like this person

04:44had a seizure and had a very serious medical situation it feels weird to say okay so now get

04:50your shit together but on the other hand like that there are even if if you just block off saturday

04:57and we just like we talked about it on on 960 i had um spencer kite on talking about barber just

05:04after the weigh-ins it's like what what is happening here why are you wasting what you have and not

05:12putting everything into this it it just it is so so very frustrating and so first and foremost you hope

05:19she is okay secondly you hope that that once you do get fully okay from this that this is a bit of

05:27a wake-up call that this is a okay this this is serious stuff that we are playing with so either

05:31now i'm moving up or we need to figure out a real scientific proven method for this weight cut thing

05:37because i am wasting years of my potential um doing this sort of a thing so you hope that she gets a lot

05:45figured out here for aaron blanchfield it sucks because there was a world here where a dominant

05:51performance for her gives her a title opportunity instead now i think the most likely outcome of this

05:58is a fight against natalia silva um shevchenko gets a a mega fight against shang weili and then

06:04winner v winner i think that's probably the way that this ends up going so now blanchfield is no further

06:09along she did apparently get her win money and the 20 that she got from macy barber um so financially

06:14at least a little bit taken care of but from a career standpoint like if i'm saying natalia silva

06:20silva fought a month ago so they aren't close to being on the same timeline like blanchfield should

06:24be fighting this weekend but the big fight for her probably now isn't going to happen until

06:30q4 of 2025 and that sucks for blanchfield a upcoming prospect in her own right

06:37so we'll see it's a weird situation to talk about because of the severity of what

06:42barber went through but there are a lot of different layers to it

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