Here's the match video of Antonina Shevchenko vs Cortney Casey from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight is at Flyweight. Antonina is the older sister of Flyweight champ Valentina. She fights the same style but isn't as good. Cortney has been in the UFC since 2015. She trains at MMA Lab in Phoenix with coach John Crouch. Both have had mixed success. It was a close fight but not a very good one. Cortney doesn't do enough to win fights and that continued here. Crouch was yelling at her through the entire fight so he knows this is Cortney's problem. By the time she got her act together it was too late. The first two rounds were very close but I scored both rounds 10-9 for Antonina. She was marginally better but it was more that Cortney needed to do more. I do not believe in stealing rounds and neither should she. Cortney was better in round three. But I thought she already lost the fight. So I scored the fight 29-28 for Antonina. Two of the judges scored it the same. The third judge scored round one for Cortney so Antonina won by split decision. As I said, round one was very close but the decision was correct. It doesn't make me think Antonina can beat anyone good. Last night someone on Twitter said that Cortney has lost four times by split decision. That just reflects her main problem. She's not aggressive enough. And Crouch can't seem to get her to change. Enjoy the video!
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