Antonina Shevchenko
Antonina Shevchenko is a Kyrgyzstani as well as a Peruvian Muay Thai fighter as well as mixed martial artist competing at flyweight of the UFC. She is the elder sister of her fellow UFC fighter and the former UFC Flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko. Antonina Shevchenko started her combat sporting career as an Muay Thai Kickboxer and debuted at the IFMA World Championship Tournament 2003 Shevchenko was the winner of the event and defeated Suzane Miller in the finals by a the unanimous vote. Antonina Shevchenko won an additional medal in the year 2007, a bronze in 2008, a gold in the year 2011, and was crowned as the IFMA Amateur World Muay Thai Champion in 2016. Antonia started her professional journey back in 2003. Antonina has been awarded numerous awards, such as the K-1 World Champion, the Lion Fight Lightweight Championships as well as the WMC and Phoenix FC World Championships. Antonina's most recent fight took place against Isa Tidblad Keskikangas at Phoenix Fighting Championship. The fight was won by an unanimous decision. Antonina Schevchenko kicked off career-long MMA professional career back in the year 2002 after a win over Anara Baanova at the KFK Championships of Kyrgystan. She was victorious by second round TKO and also won her subsequent 2-fights at WXF: X-Impact World Championships 2003 to amass a record of 3-1. Shevchenko took a break from MMA in order to concentrate on kickboxing. She made her comeback to fight Anissa haddaoui, at Phoenix FC 3, 2017. Shevchenko defeated Anissa by a unanimous vote and then defeated Valerie Domergue at Phoenix FC 4. In 2018, she resigned from the competition and began competing in Dana White's Contender Series. Shevchenko took on Jaimelene Nievera on Dana White Tuesday Night Contender Series 11. Antonina made use of her formidable striking skills in order to TKO Nievera in the clinch with knees and body. After this win, Antonina received a UFC deal. Antonina Shychenko made her debut in the UFC at TUF's Heavy Hitters finals against Ji Yeon Kim. Shevchenko was victorious with a unanimous decision. She losing her following fight to Roxanne Modafferi by split decision. Antonina was able to bounce back from losing and defeated Lucie Puddilova in UFC on ESPN Covington-Lawler by rear-naked submissions in the 2nd round. The bout earned Antonina the Fight of the Night bonus. Shevchenko had a win in her first three bouts, but lost the fights to Katlyn Cahookagian Andrea Lee and Ariane Lipski. Recently Antonina was defeated by Casey O'Neill at UFC Fight Night Santos vs. Walker via second-round TKO.






Comments
Post a Comment