WHEN Halle Berry gives you your toughest test in a long while, it might not earmark you as an elite mixed martial artist.
However, Valentina Shevchenko is likely to go down as the best-ever flyweight and has ambitions to challenge for GOAT status.
Undefeated at 125lbs, she is set to make title defence No.7 against Taila Santos at UFC 275 on June 11 in Singapore.
Having only suffered defeats up at bantamweight, losing to Liz Carmouche and Amanda Nunes twice, some Hollywood magic was required as Shevchenko, playing MMA champion Lucia ‘Lady Killer’ Chavez, faced off with Berry’s redemption-seeking Jackie Justice in the Netflix movie ‘Bruised’.
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