Former flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko spoke to UFC’s McKenzie Pavacich following the split decision draw with Alexa …
Kenzie Pap here inside T-Mobile Arena joined by Valentina shevchenko Valentina I imagine you’re feeling a variety of emotions so what what are you feeling after that decision um of course for me it’s kind of like upset a little bit even I feel that um from five rounds three three rounds was on my side and I feel it’s was a little bit like pressure on the judges because it’s like Mexican Independence Day but yes of course it’s kind of like more um in the first round I broke my tum and I kind of like feel felt it through the whole fight but um I won’t stop because I won’t stop like okay I broke the fight because I understand fans want to see the fight and I continue through the whole um but it’s kind of like a little bit affected my performance but yeah it’s kind of like this is a fight this is a fight world we winning we losing it’s kind of like uh the part of the game but um I’m happy that I left everything in octagon I think it was I didn’t see the uh like fights uh before before our fight but I think it was very good fight and amazing performance and yeah as I said I’m happy that I felt my soul uh I left my soul inside of the acon I know this week the the theme with you was that you were felt very intense I didn’t think it was possible for you to be more intense than you normally are during fight weeks how was this Camp different than other camps that you’ve had uh it was a very motivated I kind of like was uh training like every single day with only one goal just like go there and take my belt back and I felt I did everything to take the belt back uh but unfortunately like if it would be um another like just regular UFC pay-per-view I feel like judges might be not feeling that much pressure yep you understand being Champion better than many people on the planet when it comes to an immediate Trilogy or you know maybe Alexa fighting someone else or or you fighting someone else what is the way forward from here uh I think first of all I have to heal the T and I have to come back like uh fully um healthy for the next fight I kind of like will uh wait for the xray to show how long it will take and after that uh we will figure out what it’s next really was an incredible fight to top off an amazing card when you think of the historic significance of Mexican Independence Day and fighting in Las Vegas and you being a big part of that what what do you feel having brought this card to the city uh of course I want to congratulate uh all Mexico his independence day it’s like huge uh Fiesta for every people and yeah enjoy enjoy it’s your day it’s your uh uh holiday champion in and outside of the Octagon Valentina thank you so much thank you