Alexa Grasso is at present set to defend her newly acquired UFC ladies’s flyweight championship in opposition to former 125-pound queen Valentina Shevchenko in a rematch of their UFC 285 conflict. The 2 ladies will cross swords as soon as once more in the primary occasion of Noche UFC this Saturday.
Forward of the bout, Grasso was awarded a customized championship belt, just like the one Yair Rodriguez acquired for his interim title. So it comes as no shock to study that her newly minted title was designed by the identical artists behind the previous featherweight interim champion.
Jacobo and María Ángeles designed a customized leather-based strap for Alexa Grasso’s belt, that includes conventional Mexican artistry to commemorate her position because the nation’s first UFC ladies’s champion after she submitted Valentina Shevchenko by way of face crank again in March.
UFC CEO Dana White unveiled the belt in an Instagram publish, additionally revealing that Alexa Grasso’s upcoming title protection on September 16 can be on the identical day because the Cry of Dolores, which celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain. Thus, the battle will carry a unique stage of significance for Grasso.
She’s going to look to show her doubters unsuitable and repeat her previous efficiency in opposition to Shevchenko. The win earned Grasso her first-ever UFC title, and made her the second Mexican-born UFC champion, after Brandon Moreno, who turned the promotion’s first Mexican-born champion two years in the past at UFC 263.
Nonetheless, Grasso’s win over Shevchenko marks one in every of a number of in a line of upsets which have occurred in 2023, with Sean Strickland not too long ago beating Israel Adesanya for the UFC middleweight title.
Who has Alexa Grasso crushed on her win streak?
The UFC ladies’s flyweight champion is at present on a five-fight win streak, and she or he can be trying to rating her sixth consecutive win by defeating Valentina Shevchenko for a second time this Saturday. However in addition to ‘Bullet,’ who else has Grasso crushed on her six-fight run?
Previous to her latest title battle, the Mexican champion had crushed Viviane Araújo, who was 11-3 on the time of their battle. Earlier than that, she had defeated high-level kickboxer Joanne Wooden, the then 8-1 Maycee Barber, and the then 9-2-2 Ji Yeon Kim.
