Valentina Anatolievna Shevchenko (born March 7, 1988) is a Kyrgyzstani-Peruvian professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai fighter. She currently competes in the women’s Flyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of November 23, 2020, she is ranked #2 in UFC women’s pound-for-pound rankings.
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Valentina Anatolievna Shevchenko (born March 7, 1988) is a Kyrgyzstani-Peruvian professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai fighter. She currently competes in the women’s Flyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of November 23, 2020, she is ranked #2 in UFC women’s pound-for-pound rankings. She was born in Frunze, Kirghizia, USSR to a Ukrainian family, but she has described herself as being \”Russian\” in a Russian interview and her native language is Russian. She is widely considered one of the best female fighters in the world. She has competed in mixed martial arts since 2003, compiling a record of 19-3. She won 8 gold medals when she competed in the IFMA world championships, as well as the IMFA Royal World Cup in 2015. In April 2019, she was awarded by KyrgyZ President Sooronbay Jeenbekov with the Dank Order.
Her sister Antonina is also a UFC fighter and the first pair of sisters to feature on the same fight card at UFC 255. Her mother Elena is the president of Kyrgystani’s national Muay Thai association and a former multiple-time MuayThai champion. She became champion at UFC 231 after defeating Joanna Jędrzejczyk, whom she also previously defeated three times in amateur Muay thai bouts. She visted Amanda Nunes at UFC 196 on March 5, 2016. In her third UFC fight, she lost the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm at UFC Fox: Holm vs Holm on July 23, 2016, she rallied back to take the first round and win by armbar in the second round. In January 2017, she faced Julianna Peña in a possible title eliminator match in the main event at UFC on Fox: Fox: Peña vs Julianne Peña on January 28, 2017.
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