{"id":393951,"date":"2022-06-25T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T10:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393951"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T10:17:51","slug":"ufc-flyweight-taila-santos-shocked-by-how-easy-it-was-when-going-toe-to-toe-against-valentina-shevchenko-at-ufc-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-flyweight-taila-santos-shocked-by-how-easy-it-was-when-going-toe-to-toe-against-valentina-shevchenko-at-ufc-275\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Flyweight Taila Santos Shocked by How &#8216;Easy It Was&#8217; When Going Toe to Toe Against Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 275"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 275\u2019s co-main event was a fight that ended up surprising several people with the competitive nature of the scrap. Chiefly, whenever Valentina Shevchenko fights, it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that she\u2019s going to steamroll her opponent and notch yet another impressive title defense.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was not the case at UFC 275 when Taila Santos truly brought the fight to Shevchenko and even managed to snag the victory in the eyes of some fans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXh9SIrPl2A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Combate following her impressive showing at UFC 275, Santos talked about how she was surprised by the ease of the fight. Per Santos, Valentina Shevchenko is not the \u2018monster\u2019 that she is made out to be and she believes her own preparation helped her carry through a star-making performance on the fight.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cActually, what surprised me was how easy it was. I expected that in some areas it would be a lot more difficult.\u00a0But that\u2019s what I wanted to show, that she\u2019s not that monster, that invincible girl that other girls passed by,\u201d Santos said to\u00a0Combate. \u201cI was there with respect, she has been there for many years with the belt, so I prepared a lot, I went in ready to unveil her, to show that she is not that monster.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/khabib-never-even-had-a-close-fight-ali-abdelaziz-breaks-down-jon-jones-place-on-the-goat-list-compares-khabib-nurmagomedov-and-georges-st-pierre\/\">\u2018Khabib Never Even Had a Close Fight\u2019- Ali Abdelaziz Breaks Down Jon Jones\u2019 Place on the GOAT List; Compares Khabib Nurmagomedov and Georges St-Pierre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She also commented on how easily she ended up taking down Shevchenko every time \u2018The Bullet\u2019 made a mistake. This allowed Santos to capitalize on several different occasions and secure a dominant position.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q6ab3JDwebU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was even surprised because I thought it\u2019s going to be hard to take her down, it\u2019s going to be hard to impose my game, she\u2019s a tough and smart girl, but in the end it was much easier than I imagined. When I went to the grid I managed to take down super easily, I managed to get the back, keep dominating, that surprised me. I expected a little more difficulty and in the end it was easier.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/taila-santos-says-she-was-surprised-by-how-easy-her-fight-against-valentina-shevchenko-was\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taila Santos will certainly eye a rematch against Valentina Shevchenko in the hopes of becoming the undisputed flyweight champion. A win over \u2018The Bullet\u2019 would make her an all-time great in the eyes of many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 275\u2019s co-main event was a fight that ended up surprising several people with the competitive nature of the scrap. Chiefly, whenever Valentina Shevchenko fights, it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that she\u2019s going to steamroll her opponent and notch yet another impressive title defense. However, that was not the case at UFC 275 when Taila Santos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}