Used UFC strawweight champion Jessica Andrade sounds treasure she has a realizing to dethrone the lengthy-reigning flyweight queen. Paired up against Valentina Shevchenko for a title fight at UFC 261, ‘Bate Estaca’ checked out how the closing challenger to the belt, Jennifer Maia, confirmed a clear direction to victory
In an interview with Globo Esporte, she spoke about how Maia did a first fee job showing learn the procedure in which to handle Shevchenko’s recreation—but superb would possibly per chance perchance no longer back an eye on the champion on the bottom lengthy ample to stable the hang. The procedure Andrade sees it, she is better than capable of executing the same gameplan effectively.
“In the fight against Jennifer, she made it determined,” Andrade defined. “If you salvage a first fee takedown and stabilize it on the bottom, that you would possibly additionally’t traipse depraved. We’re giving that a range of focal level. I possess that’s her weak point, the grappling. I back telling of us how solid I am and I’m responsive to my doable when I withhold of us against the fence. I do know what I will discontinue, the hundreds of programs I will earn somebody down. I basically possess hundreds hundreds of takedowns.”
“While you earn your opponent down, there’s no coming assist. They salvage misplaced, they don’t know how they’re occurring. That’s one thing I will discontinue effectively right thru a fight and it’s one in every of her weaknesses. We analyze it in accordance to her closing fight. I possess that my solid suit is her weak point.”
Even supposing Andrade is responsive to her direction to victory, she also knows what Valentina does effectively and what would possibly per chance perchance pose a threat to herself within the Octagon. A embellished striker, Shevchenko has shown repeatedly before how harmful she is on the toes. As such, the Brazilian feels treasure she will be able to would possibly per chance merely quiet be aggressive in dispute to no longer let ‘Bullet’ basically feel at ease.
“I possess that her striking is her most deadly skill,” Andrade admitted. “She has basically snappy strikes. Her rear leg kick is a strike you don’t heed coming, because it’s a swap kick, so you don’t are waiting for such an spectacular kick to come assist from that leg. She has spinning kicks, side kicks, they’re all very powerful. I possess that’s her solid suit.”
“Nonetheless, since I’m so aggressive and stroll forward the total time, I earn pictures and don’t basically feel them, I possess that can back me. It’s all going to rely on how the fight goes. I will’t anticipate too powerful because I’ve by no formulation professional alongside with her, I’ve by no formulation fought her. What I heed is that her striking is upsetting. It’s basically superb and I will also merely quiet be cautious round it.”
In her closing day day out, Jessica Andrade (21-8) scored a first-round TKO hang over Katlyn Chookagian in her flyweight debut, assist in October 2020. The victory snapped a two-fight shedding skid for the 29-year-historical, who had suffered losses to Weili Zhang and Rose Namajunas at strawweight.
The ladies’s flyweight title fight is region for April 24, at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, FL. The cardboard is scheduled to be headlined by a rematch for the welterweight title, between champion Kamaru Usman and challenger Jorge Masvidal.
