Kamaru Usman thinks Alexa Grasso will enter her rematch with Valentina Shevchenko even more confident. Flyweight champion Grasso (16-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) runs things back with Shevchenko (23-4 MMA, 12-3 UFC) in Saturday’s Noche UFC main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event streams on ESPN+. After seven title defenses, Shevchenko was dethroned by Grasso , who submitted her in Round 4 of their title fight at UFC 285 in March. Grasso initially wanted one more fight before a title shot, but ended up getting the call to compete for the belt. “When you’re fighting someone who’s not exactly supposed to be in there right now at that time and you let them hang around long enough, and they start to build that confidence that they do belong in here, you find yourself in a fist fight or some type of situation you don’t want to be in,” Usman said on ESPN’s “DC & RC.” “That is this case to a ‘T.’ “Alexa Grasso, who at the time I believe was ranked No.
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