We just watched the UFC men’s flyweight title defended by Henry Cejudo with his TKO win over TJ Dillashaw over last weekend in UFC on ESPN+ 1, and now it loooks as the women’s flyweight title will be defended shortly, too.
According to UFC president Dana White, who spoke to reporters following the UFC’s debut event on ESPN in Brooklyn, New York, the world’s leading MMA organization is set to provide Jessica Eye another title shot 125lbs. She will take on UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko for the title later this year, though White didn’t state when the belt would be defended. Together with the UFC running three or four cards per month until June, the promotion had a lot of holes to match and Shevchenko vs. Eye makes sense as a principal event for a Fight Night card on ESPN+, or maybe even as a co-main event to get a pay-per-view.
White told reporters concerning Eye getting another title shot after somebody asked him when Joanne Calderwood — who predicted Eye out after her decision win over Ariane Lipski — was in line to fight for the name. There were rumors Eye was likely to be following for Shevchenko as they both fought on precisely the exact same UFC 231 cardand now we understand that is indeed the case.
Eye (14-6, 1 NC) has rescued her career by creating the move down to flyweight. After struggling with a 1-5, 1 NC album for a bantamweight, Eye is currently 3-0 at 125lbs. She has conquered Kalindra Faria, Jessica-Rose Clark and Katlyn Chookagian in her last three outings in order to get the title shot in the UFC’s new branch. The fact she has gone the distance in eight of her 10 UFC fights is about going up from a finisher such as Shevchenko who probably needs to be halted so as to beat, but Eye has definitely looked enhanced at flyweight along with her obtaining another title shot is logical.
Shevchenko (16-3) had a 4-2 record as a bantamweight from the UFC, but her two losses came from winner Amanda Nunes and she had to make a go down in order to find another title shot. Moving down to 125lbs has been demonstrated to be a great move for her since she destroyed Priscila Cachoeira in her UFC flyweight debut to find a title shot, then defeat Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 231 to maintain the empty belt. Outside of this Nunes struggles, Shevchenko has appeared unstoppable in the Octagon, and it is hard to see anyone at 125lbs giving her much of a fight when she’s so far beyond everybody in the branch as far as ability goes.
Obviously this struggle is not 100 percent official yet, but it seems likely to be officially announced shortly, and when it does the oddsmakers shouldn’t have much trouble lining the struggle. I am fully expecting Shevchenko to be a huge favorite however again, opening at least about -500 and being steamed even greater. Shevchenko always receives a tremendous amount of support from bettors while Eye traditionally doesnt get much of any, so this is not a difficult fight to line. As good as Eye has looked in her recent couple of fights since dropping down from bantamweight, it is hard to see her being the fighter to take Shevchenko’s belt.
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