Russian UFC fighter Victoria Dudakova in an interview with , she spoke about two former champions of the organization Valentina Shevchenko And Ronda Rousey comparing their contributions to mixed martial arts.
In the last fight at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi, Dudakova defeated the American representative Jean Yu Frey, for the Russian it was the second victory of the American promotion.
— Who do you think is the best female fighter in history: Ronda Rousey or Valentina Shevchenko?
— It’s clear that it’s not Ronda Rousey, because Valentina Shevchenko is a master of martial arts. But Rhonda stood out precisely as a hero in the media, her name thundered around the world. So I would say Valentina out of the two, but I had my doubts about the best fighter in history. Now, Tatiana Suarez, who I have always talked about, is getting noticed. At the same time, Valentina is one of the best – that’s 100%.
– Looking at her, do you feel that you are noticeably inferior to her in some way?
“I even feel like I’m going to lose to her in stand-up anyway.” But now we have already seen how Valentina can be defeated. I don’t want to say anything out loud, because then they will say: “Oh, the young lady allows herself a lot”… But even taking her fight with Alexa Grasso, it was clear that she had to go to series and struggle.
This is despite the fact that Alexa Grasso is not a wrestler herself and Valentina generally has good body wrestling. She fights well in the Thai clinch, and she even planted Grasso from her feet: without any special techniques, she flew under the arm, and without punches, and planted her. Grasso just doesn’t know how to stand up. If we return to Valentina, it is now clear that she is clearly a number two fighter. She only works as number two, but she does it very well. If you look at the last five or six fights, when she had already become a mature fighter, she fought, in principle, with a two at the exit, and thus won all her fights. Well, by turning away from the melee. She does it so well that, in fact, she personifies the proverb (“Do not be afraid of the one who knows a thousand tricks, fear the one who has done a thousand times a trick” – “” note). If you can do something really well, like Ronda Rousey’s crank lever, then there’s nothing anyone can say against it. Even if they know it in advance.
It seems to me that Valentina Shevchenko has the same thing with her devil. And I would note her timing, because despite being a Thai boxer, she trained in taekwondo, where her timing is very good. It’s not the same as Thai boxers. Thais are very often standing and can be easy to catch. They do not overlap. And Valentina has a very good sense of distance,” Dudakova told .
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