Valentina Shevchenko is mulling over her choices after one other textbook efficiency.
Shevchenko put the UFC Ladies’s Flyweight Championship at stake in opposition to former ladies’s strawweight titleholder Zhang Weili. Whereas this was seen as a dream struggle inside the MMA group, “Bullet” outmatched Weili within the grappling and standup on her option to a unanimous resolution win.
It was a dominant win for Shevchenko, who isn’t all in favour of making any calls for. As an alternative, Shevchenko advised reporters that she is content material with assessing her choices in opposition to the likes of UFC Ladies’s Bantamweight Champion Kayla Harrison and her outdated rival Amanda Nunes. She additionally feels one other UFC 322 winner might have solidified herself because the No. 1 contender at flyweight (by way of MMAFighting).
“I believe it’s one of many prospects, and I take into account that,” Shevchenko stated about shifting as much as bantamweight. “It’s sort of like, for now, I wish to deal with accidents that I’ve, that [have been] sort of migrating from coaching camp to coaching camp with me [laughs]. However after possibly per week or one thing like that, we may have our dialog with my group and my coach, and determine what’s subsequent, as a result of I really feel there are good challengers in flyweight as nicely; Erin [Blanchfield], Natalia [Silva], and bantamweight, now now we have Amanda [Nunes] or Kayla [Harrison].
“I might say most likely followers would like to see Amanda trilogy as a result of it was unfinished enterprise, however in the identical time, it’s unclear but, is she return or not return? Is she combating or not combating? And likewise, it’s unknown in what form she’s going to return. Like, half Amanda or possibly full Amanda? Who is aware of?
“However Kayla can be one of many prospects, and it’s going to be one other tremendous problem.”
In the meanwhile, Harrison is in search of a giant struggle in opposition to Amanda Nunes. She has stated that if she will be able to’t get the struggle, she’d be open to sharing the Octagon with Shevchenko and even UFC Corridor of Famer Ronda Rousey.
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