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Antonina Shevchenko explains why she’ll enter Contender Series at same weight as sister Valentina

The Shevchenko sisters do just about everything together. And that apparently extends to fighting in the same weight class.

Antonina Shevchenko, the older sister of UFC star Valentina, confirmed to Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that she will be fighting at flyweight on an upcoming Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series card. That is, of course, the same division that Valentina fights at now.

Antonina said that she doesn’t expect that she and her sister will be on any kind of collision course. And if it ever came up, she would definitely not fight her sibling.