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| Antonina Shevchenko |
On Saturday the UFC announced that Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series will return for a second season. The fights will be at the UFC gym in Las Vegas and will air on UFC Fight Pass. A Women's Flyweight match will headline the June 26 show. Antonina Shevchenko will face Silvana Gomez Juarez. Of course Antonina is the older sister of UFC Flyweight Valentina Shevchenko. They train together like a traveling sideshow. Antonina is 33 years old. Like her sister, Antonina is mainly a championship caliber kickboxer with even less MMA experience. She's 5-0 but only returned to MMA recently with a win over Valerie Domergue on the Dec. 22 Phoenix show in Dubai. Obviously the UFC is hoping she's as good as Valentina. Silvana is 33 years old from Argentina. Her record is 6-2. She has fought mostly for XFC in Brazil. But her latest fight was a loss to Ariane Lipski on the Mar. 3 KSW show in Poland. So Silvana has more experience especially on a big show like that. Remember not only are the fighters fighting each other but they are competing with the other fighters on the show for a UFC contract. So if fighters play it safe, neither of them will get the contract.
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