After weeks of searching for a main event for UFC 230 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, it appears as if the UFC has settled on a women’s flyweight title fight between Valentina Shevchenko and Sijara Eubanks. In the process, the UFC has uprooted a scheduled title bout between Shevchenko and Joanna Jedrzejczyk for UFC 231.
Reaction from fans has been overwhelmingly negative, as Shevchenko has been placed in a less compelling matchup, and certainly not one that garners more interest than the potential of five rounds between Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz, who will remain the UFC 230 co-headliners.