In a surprising turn of events, after UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes was pulled from her UFC 213 main event scrap with Amanda Nunes tonight in Las Vegas, UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk, who is teammates with Amanda Nunes at American Top Team, is now attempting to convince UFC President Dana White to allow her to step in on short notice to fight Valentina Shevchenko.

White posted about the situation on Instagram:

Nunes is out and @joannajedrzejczyk is begging us to let her fight @bulletvalentina tonight!!!!! Joanna u are such an amazing, BADASS, incredible fighter and it is an honor to have u in the @ufc

A post shared by Dana White (@danawhite) on Jul 8, 2017 at 12:27pm PDT

Jedrzejczyk then posted to Instagram herself, in an attempt to convince White to help her in clearing the necessary hurdles in order to fight on less than 12 hours notice:

I spoke with @danawhite and the @ufc – we are going to try and make this fight happen! #ufc213

A post shared by Joanna Jedrzejczyk (@joannajedrzejczyk) on Jul 8, 2017 at 12:48pm PDT

It is important to note that Shevchenko and Jedrzejczyk have competed several times before in Muay Thai, however the pair have never fought in MMA.

Stay tuned for updates as they become available.

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 7/8/2017.