Antonina Shevchenko introduced her retirement on Thursday. The eight-fight UFC veteran and sister of two-time flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko has determined to concentrate on her pilot profession and being a mom.
“I didn’t have the chance to depart my gloves within the octagon by custom, I didn’t suppose my battle in UFC in 2022 can be the final. “I’m leaving my gloves” on this put up,” Shevchenko wrote on Instagram.
“30 years in sport, black belt third dan in Taekwondo, 11 World Champion titles in Muay Thai, Kickboxing and MMA. Greater than 400 fights in amateurs and professionals, Asian and South American Champion, UFC fighter. That is how I end my profession in skilled sport.”
Shevchenko will all the time be a martial artist however is leaving preventing in her previous to proceed to pursue her profession as a pilot.
“After all, martial arts proceed to be large a part of my life however in several method,” she wrote. “It’s time to be centered on the following web page – my profession as a pilot. My coronary heart and my head are utterly fulled with airplanes and sky and it’s onerous to precise how comfortable I’m that aviation has come into my life!
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“Knowledgeable fighter lives a full thrilling life, stuffed with onerous work, awards, travels, difficulties, victory celebrations. And it’s onerous to search out one other path you’re keen on that might be similar intense and fullness, stuffed with motion, fixed studying, onerous work and celebration of achievements. Aviation is that this treasure for me,” she continued.
Shevchenko gave beginning to a son in September 2024 and plans to boost him correctly with the hopes he’ll develop into a fighter and a pilot.
“Now it’s my flip to do all of the onerous work for my son, to boost him an honest individual,” she mentioned. “After all, I’ll do every thing doable for make him develop into knowledgeable fighter and a pilot!”
Shevchenko profession MMA report will stand at 10-4 with a 4-4 report contained in the octagon. She final fought in July 2022, defeating Cortney Casey by break up determination.
