HOUSTON – Katlyn Chookagian thinks a large reason UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko has been able to dominate is because her opponents lost before the fight even started. Chookagian (13-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) challenges Shevchenko (18-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) on Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 247, and like everyone else who has fought Shevchenko at 125 pounds, she will enter as a big betting underdog. Shevchenko has been near flawless since moving down from bantamweight, and Chookagian thinks the biggest issue is that fighters have been lured into Shevchenko’s aura of invincibility, causing them to falter. “When I’ve watched her fights when they were actually happening, I didn’t notice.
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