Hailey Cowan, UFC Vegas 72 weigh-in Credit score: Rodney James Edgar/Cageside Press
After over a yr on the sidelines, bantamweight Hailey Cowan is about to return to motion, with a combat towards Nora Cornolle focused for UFC 315 in Montreal, Quebec this Might.
The combat will mark Cowan’s first since April of 2023, when the Contender Sequence winner and LFA/Invicta FC alum dropped her promotional debut to Canada’s Jamey-Lyn Horth.
Within the almost two years which have adopted, Cowan has seen a pair of fights fall by means of, towards Zarah Fairn and Tamires Vidal. Accidents sustained by Cowan, together with a damaged shin, scuttled each, and left her with a prolonged restoration. Cowan had really continued coaching with the harm, unaware her fibula had snapped.
“A couple weeks ago I rolled my ankle wrestling. I continued training for the fight, thinking I had a bad ankle sprain— if you know me, you know I am stubborn and ignore pain relatively easily, so I didn’t complain much and begged to continue, they allowed me to until they couldn’t,” Cowan wrote on social media on the time. “I continued training for the fight for 2 weeks with physical therapy every day. Wednesday after physical therapy, I very reluctantly went in for an X-ray— I assumed the X-ray would clear me to fight because I was in minimal pain and was functioning on it incredibly well, but it turns out my fibula is displaced and broken. The “dislocation” that I felt was my bone snapping.”
France’s Nora Cornolle is 2-1 within the UFC, and can enter the combat trying to rebound from a loss to the surging Jacqueline Cavalcanti. Previous to that, she’d notched wins over Melissa Mullins and Joselyne Edwards in her first two journeys to the UFC octagon.
UFC 315 takes place on Might 10, 2025 on the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The one different combat reported for the occasion to this point sees Canada’s Brad Katona tackle Bekzat Almakhan.
