{"id":693204,"date":"2026-05-25T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693204\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:13:09","slug":"wang-cong-stokes-valentina-shevchenko-rivalry-fires-at-ufc-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693204\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Cong stokes Valentina Shevchenko rivalry fires at UFC Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Cong already is up 1-0 on <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/valentina-shevchenko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Valentina Shevchenko;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Valentina Shevchenko&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Valentina Shevchenko<\/a>, and after this week, she might consider herself up 2-nil.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2024\/08\/26\/ufc-valentina-shevchenko-vs-wang-cong-kickboxing-fight-video\/74958097007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cong served up a Halloween nightmare for Shevchenko;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cong served up a Halloween nightmare for Shevchenko&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cong served up a Halloween nightmare for Shevchenko<\/a> with a three-round decision win in a kickboxing match at Kunlun Fight 33 in China. That was Shevchenko&#8217;s final kickboxing bout before she moved to the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Shevchenko and her supporters have long held the opinion that home-cooking was at play for Cong in the matchup on her home turf. But still, the record books have it as a win for Cong, and while she chases a chance to fight Shevchenko, the two-time UFC women&#8217;s flyweight champion, she&#8217;ll no doubt use that to her advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Cong posted on social media to claim her second win over Shevchenko \u2013 by virture of the champ apparently bowing out of a fan Q&amp;A appearance this week at the ceremonial weigh-ins for UFC Macau. Cong posted to say Shevchenko made a request to the UFC to not appear at the Q&amp;A \u2013 because Cong will be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Cong called Shevchenko a &#8220;sore loser&#8221; and criticized her style. Check out Cong&#8217;s video post and comments \u2013 in which she tagged the UFC brass to say their champion was &#8220;Box Office Poison&#8221; due to her boring fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wang Cong already is up 1-0 on Valentina Shevchenko, and after this week, she might consider herself up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,640,11037,66008],"class_list":["post-693204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-valentina-shevchenko","tag-wang-cong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}