{"id":351959,"date":"2020-06-01T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=351959"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:56:32","slug":"valentina-shevchenko-praises-antonina-following-sisters-loss-to-chookagian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/valentina-shevchenko-praises-antonina-following-sisters-loss-to-chookagian\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko praises Antonina following sister&#8217;s loss to Chookagian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko has sent a warm message to her older sister, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/photo-antonina-shevchenko-releases-statement-following-tough-loss-to-katlyn-chookagian\/\">Antonina<\/a>, who was defeated by Katlyn Chookagian at UFC on ESPN 9 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In her message, Valentina called Antonina her inspiration, and apologized for not being in her corner on fight night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No matter what , I will always Love you my dear sister !<br \/>\nYou are my inspiration, my support and the dearest person in whole world!<br \/>\nI feel so bad I couldn\u2019t be at your corner this time because of my injury.<br \/>\nBut I am always by your side &#x2764;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Valentina Shevchenko (@BulletValentina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletValentina\/status\/1266906418944172032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#8220;No matter what, I will always Love you my dear sister,&#8221; Valentina wrote. &#8220;You are my inspiration, my support and the dearest person in whole world! I feel so bad I couldn\u2019t be at your corner this time because of my injury. But I am always by your side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With her loss to Chookagian, Antonina returned to the loss column after a victory against Lucie Pudilova in her next most recent outing. This win was preceded by a loss to Roxanne Modafferi.<\/p>\n<p>Her younger sister Valentina, meanwhile, is currently ruling over the UFC women&#8217;s flyweight division with an iron fist. Since capturing the title with a decision defeat of former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Valentina has has defended it with defeats of Jessica Eye, Liz Carmouche, and most recently, Chookagian, who she thumped to a third-round TKO at UFC 247 in February.<\/p>\n<p>Valentina was expected to defend her title against Joanna Calderwood this summer, but the fight fell through due a combination of an injury and the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the message Valentina Shevchenko sent her sister?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko has sent a warm message to her older sister, Antonina, who was defeated by Katlyn Chookagian at UFC on ESPN 9 last weekend. In her message, Valentina called Antonina her inspiration, and apologized for not being in her corner on fight night. No matter what , I will always Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":306100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39532,39610,10368],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Valentina Shevchenko praises Antonina following sister&#039;s loss to Chookagian | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko has sent a warm message to her sister, Antonina, who was defeated by Katlyn Chookagian last weekend.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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