Manon Fiorot is getting impatient ready for her girls’s flyweight title shot, however that doesn’t excuse her unhealthy manners.
Fiorot hasn’t fought since a March win over Erin Blanchfield that ought to have made her subsequent up for a 125 pound title shot. Sadly, that championship has been tied up in a trio of fights between Valentina Shevchenko and Alexa Grasso.
Grasso took the title off Shevchenko in early 2023, after which the 2 fought to a break up draw close to the tip of that yr. In 2024 they coached a season of The Final Fighter towards one another, and in September Shevchenko received the belt again on the Sphere.
It hasn’t even been two months since then, however Fiorot is clearly sick of sitting round.
“Cease making folks wait!” the French contender wrote on X (previously Twitter). “Let’s do it quickly sufficient so I can ship you to retirement and transfer on.”
“You lose, you retire,” Shevchenko fired again. “Deal?!! Unwell-mannered first-grader.”
“Deal, I’ll take you severely whenever you’ve signed the contract,” Fiorot replied. “Rattling trainer’s pet.”
If the UFC was sensible, they’d contemplate organising Shevchenko vs. Fiorot as a co-main occasion to the Ilia Topuria vs. Alexander Volkanovski featherweight title rematch that’s rumored to go down in Spain subsequent spring.
Fiorot hasn’t managed to be a focus for her dwelling nation the identical manner Topuria has, however an enormous win over a tricky opponent like Valentina could possibly be simply what she must recover from in Europe. Particularly if two girls hold jawing at one another like this for the following couple of months.