Alexa Grasso vs Valentina Shevchenko Picks and Prediction – 9/15/2024

Alexa Grasso is the reigning defending UFC women's flyweight champion and will make the walk Saturday for her 21st professional fight. Grasso stands at 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 125 lbs having spent time as a straw weight and flyweight during her professional career. Training under Francisco Grasso and Diego Lopez Alexa fights out of Lobo gym where she has a brown belt in Brazilian jujitsu. For more UFC action see our UFC Picks.

Saturday marks the 12th time Grasso has stepped into the UFC Octagon where she is 7-3-1 overall following a draw last title defense against Valentina Shevchenko. Grasso has had six of her sixteen wins have come via the finish with the last being a submission victory against Saturday's opponent in March of 2023 where she initially won the UFC flyweight championship.

Valentina Shevchenko will step into the cage Saturday for her 29th career professional fight. Shevchenko has been a professional fighter since 2003 where she has fought as a boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist. Shevchenko has two wins as a boxer, 57 wins as a kickboxer, and 23 wins in mixed martial arts throughout her more than two decade career. Standing at 5 feet 5 inches Shevchenko has been a bantamweight and flyweight in MMA, while fighting as a lightweight in Muay Thai.

Shevchenko is a Muay Thai fighter fighting out of Tiger Muay Thai. Shevchenko is a 2^nd dan black belt in Muay Thai, a Master of Sports in Boxing, an International Master of Sports in Muay Thai, a Master of Sports in Kickboxing, and a Master of Sports and Black Belt in Judo. Saturday will be the 17th time Shevchenko has stepped into the UFC where she has amassed 12 wins, 3 losses and, 1 draw. Throughout her 23 professional victories 15 have come via the stoppage with the last being a knockout of Lauren Murphy in September of 2021.