Alexa Grasso is sorting via the fallout of dropping her title to Valentina Shevchenko of their UFC 306 trilogy bout.
Grasso’s (16-4-1 MMA, 8-4-1 UFC) reign as girls’s flyweight champion got here to an finish after 18 months Saturday when she was outworked by Shevchenko (24-4-1 MMA, 13-3-1 UFC) en route to a unanimous resolution loss at Noche UFC at Sphere in Las Vegas.
The Mexican didn’t have many solutions for Shevchenko’s wrestling within the first girls’s trilogy battle in UFC historical past, and consequently the sequence between the rivals now could be even at 1-1-1. This end result was clear-cut, although, leaving questions on the place Grasso now stands.
She doesn’t appear to have gotten that far in her thought course of, however she made it clear {that a} return to coaching with deal with development and enchancment is the precedence to make sure she doesn’t placed on one other repeat efficiency sooner or later (by way of Instagram):
I need to thanks for all of your assist 🤍
It wasn’t the night time I wished.
I’ll get again to coaching and I promise the subsequent battle shall be significantly better 🦾
I like them 🙏🏼❤️
Regardless of her loss, there may be all the time the lingering risk of a fourth battle between Grasso and Shevchenko sooner or later. Shevchenko mentioned after UFC 306 that she would choose to maneuver on to new enterprise, although, and ideally tackle one of many “contemporary faces” within the 125-pound division.
Manon Fiorot weighed in because the backup fighter at UFC 306 and will probably be subsequent in line, that means Grasso must face one other contender.
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