Valentina Shevchenko is currently slated to challenge Nicco Montano for the UFC women’s flyweight title. The fight has been scheduled to co-headline UFC 228, but even with this booking, “Bullet” remains doubtful that her opponent will show up on fight night.
“I hope that Nicco will follow her word and show up in the octagon and fight, because before she’s inside the octagon, I can’t believe she’ll do it,” Shevchenko told reporters in a media scrum on Friday at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas (transcript via MMAjunkie).
“Anything can happen,” she added. “Knowing her, seeing how she was reacting, how she said I’m ready for July 7, and she wanted to fight, but when the UFC came back to her and said let’s do it July 28, she said, ‘I need more time.