Valentina Shevchenko will never take lightly an opponent, and that includes Alexa Grasso . The UFC women’s flyweight champion is scheduled to make her eighth consecutive title defense, as she takes on a streaking Grasso (15-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) in the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC 285 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Shevchenko (23-3 MMA, 12-2 UFC) sees a quality challenge in the Mexican fighter, but nothing beyond the level that she’s been used to competing against for so many years. “Alexa is a good fighter, a strong fighter,” Shevchenko told MMA Junkie in Spanish . “If she’s fighting against me for this title, it’s for a reason. “But it’s all the same
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