Valentina Shevchenko recently said she wouldn’t count on fighting UFC women’s flyweight champ Nicco Montano until she stood across from her in the octagon. When Montano (4-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was pulled today from their pay-per-view co-headliner at UFC 228 over medical concerns , it didn’t come as a shock to the title challenger. “I told it before, she can pull out from the fight at anytime,” Shevchenko (15-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC) wrote in a statement released via Instagram after her bout’s cancelation. “She was trying to avoid this fight several times already.
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