UFC 266: Head-to-head see at Shevchenko vs. Murphy

Valentina Shevchenko has progressively become an even bigger popular since her fight at UFC 266 towards Lauren Murphy used to be first launched. Shevchenko, the defending UFC girls folk’s flyweight champion, opened as a -720 popular over Murphy, who is the No. 3 ranked fighter in the real UFC girls folk’s 125-pound rankings. With fight-evening like a flash drawing map, the champion, in step with Ideal Fight Odds, is as high as a -2000 popular over Murphy, who tests in as a +920 underdog.

Shevchenko has under no instances been bigger than a -2000 popular on fight evening. She hit that designate at UFC 255 when she matched up towards Jennifer Maia, who used to be ranked at No. 3 when that fight took teach in November at UFC Apex. Shevchenko won that scrap through unanimous decision.

Shevchenko won the vacant flyweight title in 2018. She has defended the belt 5 instances. Three of her defenses web advance by wave of TKO and two through unanimous decision. Shevchenko has not lost since she dropped a split-decision to UFC girls folk’s bantamweight champ, Amanda Nunes in 2017.

Murphy, who is a former Invicta FC champion, struggled when she joined the UFC. She opened her occupation with the organization on a 2-4 sprint. Murphy changed into issues round in August 2019. She is now on a 5-fight successful traipse and coming off a split-decision hold over Joanne Calderwood in June.

The ingredient to gaze on this matchup is the alternative of mighty strikes Murphy lands towards the alternative of strikes her opponent lands. Murphy lands at a lawful clip of 3.95 main strikes per minute, nonetheless she can get hit at a price of 4.25 main strikes per minute and that’s a wretchedness brooding about no 125-pound woman in the UFC has knockouts that Shevchenko, who has three in that weight division and 7 knockouts in her occupation.

Murphy has under no instances been stopped in defeat. Of her four setbacks, all of which came under the UFC banner, had been through decision.

Below is a see at how Shevchenko and Murphy matchup in key stats before UFC 266, which takes teach at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. The flyweight title fight takes teach on the ESPN+ streaming half of the pay-per-opinion card.