Valentina Shevchenko received again the ladies’s flyweight championship at UFC 306 in September defeating Alexa Grasso through unanimous resolution in a trilogy bout. She held the title from Dec. 2018 till March 2022 when she misplaced to Grasso at UFC 285.
Within the rematch, “Bullet” and Grasso fought to a cut up draw lining up the trilogy match at UFC 306. With the belt again round her waist, Shevchenko is open to a superfight towards strawweight titleholder Zhang Weili.
“I am right here. I am able to combat anybody,” Shevchenko stated throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Present. “You recognize myself. As soon as the UFC a combat and I conform to it. I by no means decline any names, so no matter they (UFC) bear in mind, no matter they suppose goes to be like superfight or no matter, yeah, I am as much as it. I do not care. I am going to combat anybody anyplace.”
Weili captured the strawweight championship at UFC 281 in November 2022 and has defended the title twice. There is not any clear-cut prime contender within the ladies’s 115-pound division.
There’s an apparent prime contender within the flyweight division, nonetheless. Manon Fiorot is ranked second within the weight class and is using an unbelievable 12-fight profitable streak. Her final two wins have been over third-ranked Erin Blanchfield and former two-time strawweight champion Rose Namajunas.
