“You want to finish the fight early, but sometimes you can’t. “In this sport, things happen like this,” she said. But with time, Shevchenko has come to accept – not the loss, but the reality that this type of thing comes with the fight game sometimes. The split decision defeat to “The Lioness” didn’t sit well with Shevchenko or her legion of fans who thought she deserved the nod in the UFC 215 main event. In others, you wonder why Shevchenko left bantamweight when she was one judge’s scorecard away from beating champion Amanda Nunes last September. In some ways, it makes all the sense in the world. It’s also her chance to make an immediate impact in the UFC’s new women’s flyweight division, as she makes the 10-pound drop from bantamweight to 125 pounds.
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“It takes a lot of energy, but I was fighting all my career in the home country of my opponents, I know exactly what to expect, how to deal with this, and it’s an opportunity to see a little bit more.” “It’s very difficult when you are fighting in the home country of your opponent or you have to travel across the world for 10 to 14 hours,” she said.
That’s not to say it’s going to be easy fighting Cachoeira in her home country, but over two decades in martial arts has taught the 29-year-old more than a little something about being on the road for a fight. “You got to see everything and see the life people have from the inside and not just the outside,” she said, clearly embracing these opportunities that prizefighting has brought her.
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Competing in Brazil for the first time as she takes on Priscila Cachoeira in the UFC Belem co-main event on Saturday, Shevchenko is no stranger to the city of Belem, having made a trip from there to Peru on a boat down the Amazon River.
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