March 27, 2025 2:00 pm ET
Antonina Shevchenko is completed preventing professionally.
Antonina, older sister of UFC ladies’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko, introduced her choice to hold up the gloves in a prolonged Instagram publish Thursday. This choice comes almost three years after her final UFC outing.
“Pricey associates!,” Antonina wrote. “I didn’t have the chance to depart my gloves within the octagon by custom, I didn’t suppose my struggle in UFC in 2022 can be the final. I’m leaving my gloves on this publish. 30 years in sport, black belt third dan in Taekwondo, 11 World Champion titles in Muay Thai, Kickboxing and MMA. Greater than 400 fights in amateurs and professionals, Asian and South American Champion, UFC fighter.
“That is how I end my profession in skilled sport.
After all, martial arts proceed to be an enormous a part of my life however differently. It’s time to be centered on the subsequent web page – my profession as a pilot.”
Antonina, 40, final fought in July 2022 when she defeated Cortney Casey in a break up choice at a UFC Struggle Evening occasion in Las Vegas.
Antonina entered the UFC as an undefeated fighter in 2018, and with a lot media consideration, given her sister’s adorned profession within the UFC. Throughout her four-year run with the UFC, she went 4-4 and picked up two $50,000 bonuses – one for Struggle of the Evening and the opposite for Efficiency of the Evening.
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