“I think she don’t know what she speak about,” Valentina Shevchenko said with a laugh in response to Jessica Eye saying her ability to adjust in a fight is one of her biggest weaknesses. “Because it’s like… Not make sense. To lack of adjust… It not make sense at all. The other thing that you have so much technique in your arsenal, you have so much everything to choose a weapon [for] what you’re going to use against your opponent.
“This is what I see. In my mind, the adjustments are not just like, adjust because you don’t have the opportunity to do something else. No, [it’s] just choosing the right weapon against your opponent. And this is what every time I am doing.
“If I need to go hard, I can go hard,” She continued. “If I need to wait a little bit, I will wait. If I have to go striking, I will go to strike. If I have to go down, I will go down. I have a lot of techniques. I have a lot of everything to choose what I will play against you. And this is like, more dangerous I can say. Listening to her quote, I really understand she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Maybe she’s like saying words, but she doesn’t know exactly what this means.”
That bout will, of course, feature the champion, Valentina Shevchenko as she looks to make her first successful title defense by taking out the savvy veteran, Jessica ‘Evil’ Eye.
Initially, the UFC was aiming to get the fight on the Prague card which took place a few weeks ago but due to some injuries on Eye’s end, the bout wound up in Chi-Town.
As of right now, there are only two other bouts official for UFC 238. One of which is a pivotal bout at strawweight as Tatiana Suarez and Nina Ansaroff collide. The other takes place at 125-pounds where Katlyn Chookagian hopes to rebound against Joanne Calderwood.
According to Calderwood, she has been notified that she’s the replacement fighter for the title fight if needed.
This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 3/18/2019
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UFC star Charles Oliveira has promised a big performance when he goes head to head with Ilia Topuria at UFC 317.
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UFC CEO Dana White has plenty of confidence that Jon Jones vs Tom Aspinall will happen.
White announced the UFC 317 and UFC 319 main events, and neither is Jones defending his heavyweight title. Many fans were hoping Jones vs Aspinall would headline the International Fight Week on June 29 in Las Vegas, but that won’t happen as White announced the main event would be Ilia Topuria vs Charles Oliveira.
UFC CEO Dana White has officially announced Ilia Topuria will take on Charles Oliveira at UFC 317.
International Fight Week is always one of the biggest events of the year, but the promotion had yet to announce the headliner. A key reason why was that Islam Makhachev, the lightweight champion, wanted to see how the main event played out, as if Jack Della Maddalena beat Belal Muhammad, he would be moving up to welterweight.
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