Former flyweight rivals Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jędrzejczyk have reunited as coaching companions forward of Shevchenko’s upcoming UFC 315 title protection. The 2 athletes, as soon as fierce rivals in each Muay Thai and MMA, at the moment are working collectively in Montreal as Shevchenko prepares to defend her flyweight championship towards Manon Fiorot.
Former Rivals Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jędrzejczyk Group Up Forward of UFC 315 Title Battle
Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jędrzejczyk share a protracted historical past. They first met in Muay Thai, the place Shevchenko gained all three of their bouts by determination greater than a decade in the past. Their rivalry continued within the UFC, culminating in a five-round contest for the vacant girls’s flyweight title at UFC 231 in 2018, which Shevchenko gained by unanimous determination. Regardless of their aggressive previous, each fighters have expressed mutual respect.
Valentina Shevchenko, a two-time UFC flyweight champion from Kyrgyzstan, has established herself as some of the dominant figures in girls’s MMA, holding data for many title defenses and knockouts in her division. Joanna Jędrzejczyk, from Poland, is a former strawweight champion with 5 profitable title defenses and is acknowledged as a UFC Corridor of Famer.
On their shared journey and coaching alongside each other, Shevchenko not too long ago stated, “Joanna, she’s an incredible fighter. She’s a Corridor of Famer. We began flyweight collectively. That is how the ladies’s flyweight in UFC started-from me and her. Now, in spite of everything these years, we’re collectively right here, not dealing with one another, however entering into the identical route.”
Their collaboration highlights the evolution of their relationship from rivals to allies, as each proceed to affect the ladies’s flyweight division on the highest stage.
