We only saw the UFC guys’s flyweight title defended by Henry Cejudo together with his TKO win over TJ Dillashaw over this past weekend in UFC on ESPN+ 1, and it loooks like the women’s flyweight title will be defended soon, as well.
Based on UFC president Dana White, who spoke to reporters after the UFC’s debut event on ESPN at Brooklyn, New York, the world’s top MMA organization is set to give Jessica Eye another title shot 125lbs. She’ll take on UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko for its name later this season, though White didn’t say when the belt could be defended. Together with the UFC running three or four cards per month up until June, the advertising had a great deal of holes to match and Shevchenko vs. Eye makes sense as a main event for a Fight Night card ESPN+, or maybe even as a co-main event for a pay-per-view.
White told reporters about Eye getting the next title shot after someone asked him when Joanne Calderwood — who predicted Eye out following her decision win over Ariane Lipski — was in line to fight for the title. There were rumors Eye was likely to be next for Shevchenko since they fought on the same UFC 231 cardand we know that is indeed the case.
Eye (14-6, 1 NC) has saved her career by creating the move down to flyweight. After struggling with a 1-5, 1 NC album as a bantamweight, Eye is currently 3-0 in 125lbs. She’s defeated Kalindra Faria, Jessica-Rose Clark and Katlyn Chookagian in her last three outings so as to acquire the title shot in the UFC’s newest branch. The fact she has gone the distance in eight of her 10 UFC struggles is concerning going up against a finisher like Shevchenko who probably needs to be stopped so as to beat, but Eye has looked improved at flyweight and her getting the next title shot is logical.
Shevchenko (16-3) had a 4-2 record for a bantamweight in the UFC, but her two losses came against winner Amanda Nunes and she needed to make a move down in order to find another title shot. Moving down to 125lbs has been demonstrated to be a fantastic move for her since she ruined Priscila Cachoeira within her UFC flyweight debut to find a title shot, then defeat Joanna Jedrzejczyk in UFC 231 to claim the vacant belt. Outside of this Nunes struggles, Shevchenko has looked unstoppable in the Octagon, and it is difficult to see anybody at 125lbs giving her much of a struggle when she is so far beyond everyone else in the division so far as ability goes.
Obviously this struggle is not 100 percent official yet, but it seems likely to be formally announced shortly, and once it does the oddsmakers shouldn’t have a lot of trouble lining the fight. I’m fully expecting Shevchenko for a massive favorite yet again, starting at least around -500 and possibly being steamed even greater. Shevchenko always receives an enormous amount of aid from bettors while Eye traditionally doesnt get much of some, so this is not a hard struggle to line. As good as Eye has looked in her recent few fights since dropping down from bantamweight, it’s hard to see that her being the fighter to take Shevchenko’s belt.
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