{"id":288147,"date":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:20:09","slug":"ufc-322-results-islam-makhachev-and-valentina-shevchenko-win-as-leon-edwards-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288147\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322 results: Islam Makhachev and Valentina Shevchenko win as Leon Edwards loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valentina Shevchenko beat Zhang Weili in defence of her UFC flyweight belt and joined Amanda Nunes on 11 at the top of the list of women with the most UFC title fight wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shevchenko, who is top of the women&#8217;s pound-for-pound rankings, overwhelmed her opponent from China to emerge a 50-45, 50-45, 50-45 winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old&#8217;s victory also means she is only the second woman to become a two-division UFC champion after Nunes, although she is the first to do it at strawweight and flyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was an amazing fight,&#8221; said Shevchenko, who has a record of 26 wins, four defeats and a draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was trying to show the dominant positions in every aspect and don&#8217;t have any questions that this fight is mine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weili, who vacated her strawweight belt in February, moved up in weight for the fight and was beaten for the first time since November 2021.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko beat Zhang Weili in defence of her UFC flyweight belt and joined Amanda Nunes on 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288147","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\/288147","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=288147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}