It seems the Final Preventing Championship has discovered an opponent for UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko (23-3), as she goals to make the eighth-straight protection of her crown opposing no. 4 ranked Alexa Grasso (15-3).
Headlining the occasion within the return of maybe the best blended martial artist to ever do it, former multi-time UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who comes again for the primary time in over three years to battle former interim heavyweight champion and present no. 1 ranked Ciryl Gane for the vacant UFC heavyweight championship.
UFC 285 is to go down on March 4, 2023, dwell from the T-Cell Enviornment in Paradise, Nevada.
Many individuals have been questioning what might be subsequent for Valentina Shevchenko following her cut up determination victory over no. 2 ranked Taila Santos again at UFC 275, happening in June of final yr.
It was the one shut win of her complete profession, the one girl not named Amanda Nunes she didn’t handily defeat.
That being mentioned, she had 4 finishes via her first six title defenses, defeating the likes of former UFC champions Joanna Jedrzejczyk (fourth time she beat Jedrzejczyk, Valentina went 3-0 towards her in kickboxing) and Jessica Andrade.
Alexa Grasso however, 5 years Shevchenko’s junior, has labored herself right into a prime spot within the rankings with a set of her personal spectacular performances, coming into her title conflict on a four-fight win streak.
The Mexico native boasts octagon wins over the likes of former KSW flyweight champion Karolina Kowalkiewicz, Maycee Barber, Joanne Calderwood, and Viviane Araujo, her two most up-to-date defeats coming to Tatiana Suarez and former two-time UFC strawweight champion Carla Esparza.
You could discover each of these names are elite wrestlers, and Grasso is primarily a boxer, an excellent boxer at that.
However will or not it’s sufficient for the 57-2 former kickboxing champion in Valentina Shevchenko?
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