Valentina Shevchenko received again the ladies’s flyweight championship at UFC 306 in September defeating Alexa Grasso by way of 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 break up draw lining up the trilogy match at UFC 306. With the belt again round her waist, Shevchenko is open to a superfight in opposition to strawweight titleholder Zhang Weili.
“I am right here. I am able to battle anybody,” Shevchenko mentioned throughout an look on The Ariel Helwani Present. “You recognize myself. As soon as the UFC a battle and I comply with it. I by no means decline any names, so no matter they (UFC) keep in mind, no matter they assume goes to be like superfight or no matter, yeah, I am as much as it. I do not care. I am going to battle anybody wherever.”
Weili captured the strawweight championship at UFC 281 in November 2022 and has defended the title twice. There isn’t 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 unimaginable 12-fight successful streak. Her final two wins have been over third-ranked Erin Blanchfield and former two-time strawweight champion Rose Namajunas.
