For Valentina Shevchenko, The Mission Is Still The Same

The wait can be a killer. A fighter trains for weeks in order to peak on a particular night, and then suddenly, it’s all gone. An injury, an illness, whatever it is, and the biggest fight of someone’s career is gone. Valentina Shevchenko is one of the lucky ones in that her rematch with Amanda Nunes for the UFC women’s bantamweight title was rescheduled from July 8 to this Saturday. But for an athlete who hit her peak for that July bout before Nunes withdrew on fight day due to