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In the case of her expected bout against Valentina Shevchenko, Andrade seems to already have her game plan all ironed out, and she believes her strategy will prove that Valentina’s greatness is not bulletproof.
“Valentina is a great fighter and has my total respect, but I think the strategy to fight her would be work on the ground and pound and don’t give her any space,” Andrade said. “She does well when she has space — and she’s a southpaw, so walk towards her weak arm and use my strength and my takedowns.
Shevchenko recently defended her belt against Jennifer Maia, who managed to win one round in all three scorecards on Nov. 21 by keeping the champion against the cage before scoring a takedown and staying on top. That’s similar to the ideal path to victory Andrade sees for the clash with Shevchenko, but she said you can’t stop after just one round.
“You have to make sure her arms and legs get tired in the first rounds so it gets easier,” Andrade said. “That’s something I do well. I’m strong against the cage and it takes a while before I get tired, so that’s my differential.”
“And kicks,” she added. “The more you kick…I see that the girls in our division don’t kick that much, and that makes the difference, especially when you kick on the right spot and starts to wear down the leg and your opponent starts to fade and feel the pain.”
https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/12...shevchenko-historic-namajunas-jedrzejczyk-ufc
Thoughts on that? It's funny how she's saying that about kicks, doesn't she know that Valentina's kicks are the best in all the WMMA?
Also, apparently she's gonna come out like she always does, always agressive going forward, so she's not gonna respect Valentina at all... I undestand what she's saying about not giving Valentina space but Oh man she gotta be careful, if Valentina catches this girl with that left leg... I'm gonna go crazy lol
“Valentina is a great fighter and has my total respect, but I think the strategy to fight her would be work on the ground and pound and don’t give her any space,” Andrade said. “She does well when she has space — and she’s a southpaw, so walk towards her weak arm and use my strength and my takedowns.
Shevchenko recently defended her belt against Jennifer Maia, who managed to win one round in all three scorecards on Nov. 21 by keeping the champion against the cage before scoring a takedown and staying on top. That’s similar to the ideal path to victory Andrade sees for the clash with Shevchenko, but she said you can’t stop after just one round.
“You have to make sure her arms and legs get tired in the first rounds so it gets easier,” Andrade said. “That’s something I do well. I’m strong against the cage and it takes a while before I get tired, so that’s my differential.”
“And kicks,” she added. “The more you kick…I see that the girls in our division don’t kick that much, and that makes the difference, especially when you kick on the right spot and starts to wear down the leg and your opponent starts to fade and feel the pain.”
https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/12...shevchenko-historic-namajunas-jedrzejczyk-ufc
Thoughts on that? It's funny how she's saying that about kicks, doesn't she know that Valentina's kicks are the best in all the WMMA?
Also, apparently she's gonna come out like she always does, always agressive going forward, so she's not gonna respect Valentina at all... I undestand what she's saying about not giving Valentina space but Oh man she gotta be careful, if Valentina catches this girl with that left leg... I'm gonna go crazy lol