{"id":281629,"date":"2025-11-13T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281629\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:24:10","slug":"ufc-322-valentina-shevchenko-vs-zhang-weili-super-fight-in-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281629\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322: Valentina Shevchenko vs Zhang Weili super-fight in stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After defeating France&#8217;s Manon Fiorot in May, Shevchenko praised Weili, floating the idea of a fight between the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Zhang has the same passion for martial arts as me, the same mindset. It&#8217;s not about fame &#8211; this is what I like about her,&#8221; said Shevchenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m hearing from fans this is the fight they want to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Perhaps Shevchenko looked outside the flyweight division because she has continuously got the better of foes within it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her only blip since becoming champion in 2018 is a defeat by Alexa Grasso in 2023, but after a draw in the rematch she regained her title in the trilogy fight last September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remarkably, Shevchenko has featured in 12 of the 13 UFC women&#8217;s flyweight title bouts, winning 10, drawing one and losing one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After defeating France&#8217;s Manon Fiorot in May, Shevchenko praised Weili, floating the idea of a fight between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-281629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}