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thank you [Music] okay photos we’ve gone over the rules in the back there were no final questions from you there were no final questions from you read if you want to touch gloves do it now come on ready to fight Valentina chefchenko looking to make it eight successive Flyway title defenses Alexa Grosso looking to shock the world first round thought are you ready buddy you ready fight all right Flyway Championship is underway Alexa Grosso in the green with white Valentina chefchenko in the black and gold befitting a champion I tell you who’s watching right now in Gilroy California everybody from Gilroy is like we in there you know we got a whole bunch of Mexican people in Gilroy they are excited for Alexa Grosso as they were for Brandon Moreno they think that Alex can get it done it’ll take a fantastic performance but you look at Valentina and you guys remember when Ronda Rousey was the champ I was always fast Valentina systematic she does not rush she always takes her time she gets her reads and then she starts to go to work to break down her opponents counter left appear to land for chefchenko Grosso very technical with her boxing with her footwork oh beautiful spinning back Fist and left kick to the body [Applause] but that’s one of the things that Valentina says she goes if she wants to have a boxing match we could have a boxing match and I would still feel confident I think that would be the thing that would give Roswell her best chance to just box her because she is a phenomenal boxer she is but I guarantee you valentina’s not going to just box her no no look yeah there you go she’s throwing spinning back Fizz spitting his back kick yeah nice inside low kick did you give her a little read with that knee just to see the reaction [Applause] Vegas crowd showing its support for the champion chefchenko he’s thrown with bad intentions early another inside leg kick gets home she has such an efficient snap to her movements she’s coiled like a spring you notice that left heel is always off the ground as she’s backing up she’s always in a position to fire back that’s the dangers in fighting her yeah such a great counter-striker that if you take too many chances she’ll populate something yeah you can’t leave any space although I think Brasso just clipped her there with the right hand she did oh my God I was wondering what she was trying to do while showing her that knee and I think she was trying to set up a front leg question mark kick yeah with the right leg oh supporter with that right hand but on the exit right she can’t stop because valentina’s still throwing yes by chefchenko gets through coming up on two minutes here in round one of a possible five Roswell has landed a few punches already she heard it with that right hand Joe feel like she’s gotten that left home too oh the left sorry yes she landed that beautiful Left Hand twice the Grasso Corners calling for more faints there weren’t a lot of those her last time out against vivianiato uzo but Grosso landed some power shots early 90 seconds to go on the round and Valentina immediately started to chop at those legs take away those legs take away that spring very intelligent [Music] also continuing to keep that guard high and tight that right hand is always right on the chin of Grosso well she remembers that Jessica I fight yep very educated with her hands crossowon officially is now outlanded chefchenko in around 1916 adds to her total there oh nice elbow on the break [Music] Africa 30 seconds to go on the round body kick lands for the champ dwell time takedown but doesn’t really count as takedown but the visual right didn’t establish the position but yeah the visual look at these knees to the body look at this takes her down but Grasso was on her back very interesting there beautiful body kick right here by the champ lands right up under the elbow look at this left hand from Grosso boom that was the first big left hand that landed now here comes the combination of Grosso she darts in she covers distance very well nice right hand a nice left hand right hook follows that hurt the champ s only because he started let’s change it he landed he scratched him last time he’s gonna use the same tactics he’s standing since going in as I start to pressure you you have to be faster you have to counter her you can’t do it I don’t know why you’re not doing it well for a long time Valentina shevchenko was just knifing through contenders without so much as being challenged that has changed well when you’re the champion you get everybody’s best right like you’re gonna get motivated people that want to knock you off and as our sport continues to evolve that’s going to continue to happen you also set the bar very high and people have the look at this beautiful takedown see that beautiful job by Valentina fantastic and she’s so physically strong yes that when she gets these girls down they tend to struggle right but she has that ability we spoke to that earlier on her walk how she has the ability to take you down and ground you out if she needs to and of course chefchenko started her UFC career at 35 Grosso 115 pounds so perhaps some size and strength discrepancy Dean Thomas you got a hot mic what do you have beautiful first round by Grosso she did her best work as a South Pole and that was probably an adjustment that they made in Camp to try to shake up the champ and I think that’s what happened Chef Jangles probably not prepared for a southpaw thank you Dino and this is an area to fight that you would imagine Chef Jayco picked up on in their film study right Macy Barber was able to score takedowns Carla sparza was able to score takedowns she hasn’t had the greatest takedown defense over the course of her U.S and career so seeing her get taken down by these athletes probably has prompted the champion hey she’s very good in the stand up let me mix it up a little bit yeah absolutely and she just slid over [Applause] indicide control and looking at setting up the beginning of a crucifix just so good there her first fight at 125 she got to that crucifix position multiple times and just destroyed the girl and especially right now and then you see how physically straight up she is as Alexa Grosso tries to Arch and buck her way out of this position and she can do nothing Alexa Grosso just missed their opportunity she had her feet towards the side of the Octagon she should have tried to use that to wall walk and push herself over right to try to get out of his position but now her feet are back to the center it’ll make it much more difficult but at least she’s kind of captured the left leg of Valentina with her left leg she’s it’s not she’s not out of the woods but she can begin to set things up here what a good thing for her is Valentina squeeze it right Valentina squeezing to try to keep her in position but now valentina’s back to side control again [Applause] Rosso trying to leverage the fence there it is fijou exactly now she used the fence to get up beautiful fantastic job that’s big so then she got her feet to the fence she was able to use it oh and Alexa tractor seen a lot of high-level contenders unable to escape that position in the past against chefchenko still just over two minutes to go round two mcgruffville’s got to do something big here [Music] and now how willing is she going to be knowing that the champ is going to level change if she gets too aggressive [Applause] and for the champion Valentine will get into a position about people rarely Escape there can be that energy dump right after she got away a little sooner than you expected now you’re back on your feet and she’s pressing I want to see how the champ reacts to being back out in the center now right how much energy does she have left for the remainder of this round because in her mind if it always happens in one way why would it be different Grosso back to Southpaw now and she did utilize a lot of energy establishing that position holding that position [Applause] I think you might be on to something there chefchenko mouth open circling under a minute to go in the round [Applause] oh good right hand Connection by Grosso and a return is there for chefchenko oh another take down by the champ beautiful job and that should put a Capstone on the round and John this will really serve to settle Alexa Grosso and settle her aggressiveness because she knows now that when she does overextend a little bit she’ll get taken down because Valentina has shown if she can get to her body Alexa doesn’t have the knowledge to defend those takedown to stay upright all right so the narrative in round two ground control and a couple takedowns for Valentina shebchenko 10 minutes down [Applause] [Music] you have to be better on the distance and then look for the timing for the takedown keep it simple they need to be faster simple and fast as encounter her just simple punches simple Stripes everything simple good timing good entries she slowed down she will try to control are you ready you ready slowed down they wanted a time to take down though they like what they saw in that round Alexa’s inability to defend [Music] beautiful job by the champion we’re also able to get inside and land good left counter by Grosso over the top [Music] [Applause] in round two the grossful corner told them not to throw too many kicks probably because of the fear of getting taken down but on the feet she looks great Roswell looks great she does yeah she looks comfortable she looks aggressive what an exchange oh she telegraphed that one she did so if you’re grossful now you faint like Dominique caught the last time get her level change pull out that takedown attempt because that was very telegram by the champion she literally put her head down and reached out for the leg Oh I thought she stung it with a left hand oh [Music] Valentina just barely caught her with that oh look like a big left-hand connection for shevchego it looked like Grosso was trying to take her down there for a minute Valentine’s trying to go to that headlock when they come together and she gets her arm under one side and then over the other side she tries to step through [Music] three minutes here to go round three [Applause] chefchenko with a good shot there what timing that was beautiful beautiful and you saw Alexa Grosso immediately kind of make a face like ah I cannot believe I did it again Valentina on top of her inner full guard and Alexa is controlling the right arm with the overhook but I don’t know what kind of offensive guard she has it’s a great position if you can control that right arm with the leftover hook but she’s not doing anything offensively but she would want to do if she’s attacking is bring that left leg up and start to lock it down and isolate it but it seems like she’s just doing that defensively trying to hold her in place because Jason Herzog is already telling them to keep working it seems like there is a real emphasis on keeping Fighters active on the ground because the warnings are coming a lot sooner than they used to are at least it feels like that yeah Keith Peterson historically very reluctant to warn Fighters but you’re right DC that has been a trend tonight we set off the top that Grosso likely would have to fight the perfect fight when you take out a champion like this right long reigning Master of the adjustments Championship medal you can be great moments but you got to be great for yeah balance of 25 minutes yep the entirety of the fight you got to be great and even if Valentina can just stay on top and land the occasional punch like this it still establishes her in this round wow wow see what I mean wow punch from Chef Jayco came after a separation I don’t like that at all what happened I got a separation I don’t like the separation yeah I don’t like the stand up I hate it I don’t like it she worked hard to get to that position she was Landing punches and it’s not normal do you expect her to do she was Landing yes she was Landing shots and then she gets it again Alexa Grosso is not defended takedowns at all oh oh that was yeah that’s illegal yeah that was the head kick to the ground to a downed opponent wow it is amazing how look at that back take it’s amazing how delayed she is on her take down defense I mean valentina’s at her hips before she even thinks to sprawl yes and there’s the danger right in fighting a Valentina Chef Jayco because she’s such a great Striker do you not Russell look at this Alexa Brasso looking for guillotine attempts full guard wow crosso game as hell but a big round for the champion Chef Chico look at that jab by the champion Snappy Jab and there’s another one and another one behind it and look at that Grosso with the left hand Valentina counter with a sharp left hand though there’s a one-two from Grosso and look at this timing in this time just absolutely gorgeous I just don’t get I mean Brussels seems so delayed on their defensive we mentioned that word extreme when it comes to the training and the conditioning for Alexa Grosso I’ve never seen her in this shape she’s barely breathing after 15 minutes with chefchenko what’s wrong buddy buddy you ready are you ready it’s fine no she’s not breathing heavy but she’s got to be a little better on a takedown defense if she wants a chance because valentina’s setting up a takedown right now [Applause] oh there it is she’s dropping her level a little bit showing her something different spinning kick to the body partially Lynn as a little telegraphed a little a little on the slow side there by the champion yeah and look at that shot again but this time stuffed nice that was better by Grosso defending big reaction from the corner as Grosso stuffs a shot for the second time tonight but that ain’t gonna be the last one she sees because she has now earned the respect of the champion John she is making the champion want to wrestle well I think those punches early on yeah really clean ones by Grosso we’re a wake-up call well every time they throw combinations roswell’s the one that’s Landing more shots yes man those rug burns on Chef tankless knees are going to burn when she gets that those are gonna burn for days that octagon will tear your knees up when you’re shooting man yeah shower should be fun yeah it’ll be fun it’ll it’ll burn some sort of discredited Grosso coming in here tonight because after her Main Event win over Otto uzo last year she intimated that maybe she would want one more before a title fight but certainly holding her own here as we go under three and a half round four well sir when she throws her jab John like that the champ goes the jab but Brussels left hand is on the face she pops with the same Jab when she’s softball that’s what she does really well like Dean said she isn’t fighting as well when she’s convention you’re missing a lot of body kicks from chefchenko you know she’s so good at setting up head kicks with those body kicks I love the Jessica I fight and we’re not seeing a lot of that tonight well because she’s fired her southpaws right so it’s like it’s really kind of killed that attack for so she’s not able to dig that left leg to the body like she does against conventional Fighters which is why she showed her that right leg question mark kick [Applause] Telegraph that one it’s like every time every time gospel gets a bit aggressive Chef Chico wants to shoot so bad that she shows that she’s coming still the the variety of techniques that chefchenko has with her kicks you would expect maybe the switch kick to the body maybe the high kick on the left side and now she’s an orthodox and Grosso goes Orthodox for the takedown attempt interesting yeah Chef Chico’s gonna try to headlock her here she’s gonna try to headlock with the right arm got to stay close here keep that seat belt and just keep letting the freehand work Rosso hands clasped right behind chefchenko Herzog allowing the fighters to work here in the clinch back to the center of the Octagon now we’ll see if Grosso can maximize these final 90. good jab from chefchenko gets through well this is a round that’s up on the table oh nice jab there by the champion beautiful and again with that perfect timing really is the timing right that guard is high and tight yet she still gets it through and you’re seeing it on the left eye oh made an attempt for the spinning back fist got her back take it oh Sensational job by Alex and Grosso with a minute to go oh it’s she’s in deep that is getting tight but it’s on the chin Joe he’s still looking she’s got the strength oh my goodness chefchenko keeping her wits about her not under the chin yet more of a crank oh she’s got behind the neck that’s still ties that’s really tight I think she got it [Applause] submission by submission oh my goodness oh my goodness wow that happened fast John what the way she took the back oh we gotta see the way she took the back oh my gosh a millisecond Alexa crossow has stopped rain Mexico that’s three Viva Mahi going deep wow a back take the way she took the back was just like a ninja I mean that was so beautiful that was one of the Christmas back tanks I think I’ve ever seen oh yeah baby the second career win by submission for Alexa Grosso and the most incredibly dominant reign in UFC Women’s flyweight history comes to an end let’s take a look at that watch this back take because it’s Sensational spinning back kick look at this I mean so quick she misses the spinning back kick and Alexa Grosso is on her back if we can see that in real time it’s amazing look how quick this is Boom jumps on the back both hooks in immediately she was not playing around on that channel oh my goodness and the way she cinched that up never let go of the neck let’s see in real time once she hit the hands look at this up gone oh my goodness that’s amazing perfect both hooks in instantaneously on the neck and slowly there it is surely secured until she got the back of that hand on the back of valentina’s neck and didn’t even get it under this it never got under the chin look how red she’s getting just ready to go out it never got under the chin unbelievable once she hid those hands behind her head it was over J.A and for this team right Francisco crosso who has dedicated the entirety of his professional life to his niece we talked earlier this week champ 25-1 Rosso by submission wow cash your tickets to make it official here’s Bruce ladies and gentlemen referee Jason Herzog is called a stop to this contest at four minutes 34 seconds of the fourth round for the winner by submission due to a rear naked choke foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause]