Alexa Grasso is sorting by way of the fallout of shedding her title to Valentina Shevchenko of their UFC 306 trilogy bout.
Grasso’s (16-4-1 MMA, 8-4-1 UFC) reign as girls’s flyweight champion got here to an finish after 18 months Saturday when she was outworked by Shevchenko (24-4-1 MMA, 13-3-1 UFC) en path to a unanimous determination loss at Noche UFC at Sphere in Las Vegas.
The Mexican didn’t have many solutions for Shevchenko’s wrestling within the first girls’s trilogy combat in UFC historical past, and because of this the sequence between the rivals now could be even at 1-1-1. This end result was clear-cut, although, leaving questions on the place Grasso now stands.
She doesn’t appear to have gotten that far in her thought course of, however she made it clear {that a} return to coaching with deal with development and enchancment is the precedence to make sure she doesn’t placed on one other repeat efficiency sooner or later (by way of Instagram):
I need to thanks for all of your help 🤍
It wasn’t the evening I wished.
I’ll get again to coaching and I promise the subsequent combat will likely be significantly better 🦾
I really like them 🙏🏼❤️
Regardless of her loss, there’s at all times the lingering chance of a fourth combat between Grasso and Shevchenko sooner or later. Shevchenko stated after UFC 306 that she would like to maneuver on to new enterprise, although, and ideally tackle one of many “recent faces” within the 125-pound division.
Manon Fiorot weighed in because the backup fighter at UFC 306 and will probably be subsequent in line, which means Grasso must face one other contender.
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