“I believe that’s her weakness is grappling,” Jessica Andrade reveals her plan against Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 261
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Jessica Andrade and Valentina Shevchenko
The former UFC women’s strawweight champion Jessica Andrade is going to face the UFC women’s flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko, at UFC 261. Shevchenko is one of the most well-equipped women fighters in UFC but Andrade sounds like she has a plan to dethrone the champ.
In an interview with Globo Esporte, Jessica Andrade says, “In the fight against Jennifer, she made it clear, if you score a good takedown and stabilize it on the floor, you can’t go wrong. We’re giving that a lot of focus. I believe that’s her weakness, the grappling.”
She continued, “I keep telling people how strong I am and I’m aware of my potential when I hold people against the fence. I know what I can do, the different ways I can take someone down. I have lots of different takedowns.”
“Once you take your opponent down, there’s no coming back. They get lost, they don’t know how they’re going down. That’s something I can do well during a fight and it’s one of her weaknesses. We analyze it according to her last fight. I believe that my strong suit is her weakness.”
Jessica Andrade believes she needs to be more aggressive than Shevchenko
Although, Jessica Andrade is aware of her path to victory but she knows very well that Valentina Shevchenko is a decorated striker and she needs to be more aggressive than her.
Andrade says, “I believe that her striking is her most dangerous skill, She has really fast strikes. Her rear leg kick is a strike you don’t see coming, because it’s a switch kick, so you don’t expect such a powerful kick to come from that leg. She has spinning kicks, sidekicks, they’re all very powerful. I think that’s her strong suit.”
She added, “However, since I’m so aggressive and walk forward all the time, I take shots and don’t feel them, I think that can help me. It’s all going to depend on how the fight goes. I can’t anticipate too much because I’ve never trained with her, I’ve never fought her. What I see is that her striking is scary. It’s really good and I need to be careful around it.”
In her last fight against Katlyn Chookagain, Andrade ended her two-fight losing streak and now she is on the verge to get the title in her hands again. It will be interesting to see will her game plan work against ‘Bullet Valentina’ or not.
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