Valentina Shevchenko has a response for Khabib Nurmagomedov dismissing female fighters.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, comments from a Nurmagomedov interview circulated on social media regarding his thoughts on women\u2019s MMA. This isn\u2019t the first time the former UFC lightweight champion has been approached about the topic, and he kept the same attitude, suggesting women aren\u2019t suited for combat sports, going as far as to state his belief that they are created \u201cweak\u201d while men are made \u201cstrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
The misogynistic comments caught the attention of UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko, who offered a stern response to Nurmagomedov on social media:<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen are weak?!\u201d Shevchenko wrote. \u201cTell that to my sister\u2014an airline captain. Or tell it to the \u201dNight Witches\u201d the all-female bomber regiment of World War II, who dropped bombs under the cover of darkness with their engines off, then landed in pitch blackness without landing lights. For this, they earned a reputation for being elusive and deadly. Go ahead, tell them who is stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all depends entirely on one\u2019s upbringing. You can just as easily raise a man to be a helpless milksop who is incapable of doing anything. Martial arts represent a warrior tradition where there is no distinction between man and woman. There is only the art itself. That is precisely why people train: To become more graceful, stronger, and wiser\u2014and to ensure that no one ever gets the chance to punch them in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shevchenko and Nurmagomedov are two of the most accomplished fighters in UFC history, with Shevchenko currently in her second reign as flyweight champion with nine total successful title defenses to her name (including seven straight in her first reign). Nurmagomedov, who retired from competition in 2020, finished his fighting career with a spotless 29-0 record, including victories in four UFC lightweight championship bouts.<\/p>\n
See more of Shevchenko\u2019s thoughts on the topic below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko has a response for Khabib Nurmagomedov dismissing female fighters. On Thursday, comments from a Nurmagomedov interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-572313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572313","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=572313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}