SAN DIEGO -- Liz Carmouche has a solid rationale on why she, and not Joanna Jedrzejczyk or Nicco Montaño or Sijara Eubanks or anyone else, deserved the fight with Valentina Shevchenko for the vacant UFC flyweight title: Carmouche, not Amanda Nunes or anyone else who has fought Shevchenko over the course of the latter’s 18-fight mixed martial arts career, owns a stoppage victory over the woman many consider the uncrowned 125-pound champ.
“I’m the only one who has ever finished her in MMA,” Carmouche told MMA Fighting. “Not in Muay Thai or kickboxing.