{"id":589920,"date":"2026-04-06T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:49:08","slug":"valentina-shevchenko-fires-back-at-khabibs-comments-on-women-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589920\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko fires back at Khabib\u2019s comments on women in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khabib Nurmagomedov restated opposition to women competing in MMA, a stance that contrasts with Valentina Shevchenko\u2019s view on gender in combat sports. At a recent press conference, Khabib Nurmagomedov said men and women have designated societal roles and described women as weaker than men. Valentina Shevchenko, responding to similar past remarks, argued that women in MMA face no inherent limits and pointed to upbringing over biology. She cited her sister, an airline captain, and the World War II \u201cNight Witches.\u201d Nurmagomedov framed responsibilities as a life \u201cmission\u201d for men and women. This video outlines their stated positions without extending beyond the provided quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khabib Nurmagomedov restated opposition to women competing in MMA, a stance that contrasts with Valentina Shevchenko\u2019s view on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,18577,786,15058,89359,785,668,85,11158],"class_list":{"0":"post-589920","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-combat-sports","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","13":"tag-men-and-women","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-press-conference","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-valentina-shevchenko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589920","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=589920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}