Later this year, in the conclusion of this season’s The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC will crown its first women’s flyweight champion. The organization’s best 125-pound fighter though, is currently hanging out a division above her natural weight, and at Saturday’s UFC 215, may just emerge with the bantamweight belt.
To do that, Valentina Shevchenko will have to conquer the formidable Amanda Nunes, the 29-year-old Brazilian who in her last fight sent Ronda Rousey crashing into retirement with a brutal technical knockout.
These two have history; in March 2016, Nunes defeated Shevchenko via unanimous decision.