Just two weeks from her spectacular knockout win over Jessica Eye at UFC 238 in Chicago, Valentina Shevchenko already has her next title defense lined up.
She will put her Flyweight title on the line against Liz Carmouche in the main event of an upcoming UFC Fight Night event slated to go down inside Antel Arena in Montevideo, Uruguay on August 10, 2019.
Winner of two straight and four of five overall, Carmouche has quietly gone about her business to rise to the top of the Flyweight division.
The bout will be a rematch – Carmouche outsmarted Shevchenko in 2010.
Breaking: Valentina Shevchenko vs. Liz Carmouche will headline UFC Fight Night on Aug. 10 in Uruguay, per multiple sources. Carmouche is only one of two women to ever defeat Shevchenko in MMA. It happened back in 2010, at a regional show outside Oklahoma. pic.twitter.com/4JbJ6uETrv
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It’s something that still haunts Valentina to this day.
“It was like some kind of medical stoppage,” Shevchenko told BJPenn.com Radio. “I was dominating all round, I was throwing combinations, I even took her down. I came for the leg lock and she threw from the ground — I was standing on my feet — she throws the heel and it landed right on my brow. So [I got] this cut on the eye and the doctor decided to stop the fight. This was not the way I planned [it], I was ready to continue the fight but the doctor decided different way.”
The championship fight will be Liz’s second inside the Octagon, as she came up short in the first-ever female fight inside the Octagon against Ronda Rousey way back at UFC 157 in 2013.
