Michael Bisping believes Alexa Grasso is a “better fighter” than Valentina Shevchenko

Michael Bisping has excessive praise for Alexa Grasso.

Grasso vexed many aid in March as she submitted Valentina Shevchenko to turn into the women folks’s flyweight champ. The two are space to rematch in September and so a lot of demand Shevchenko to uncover that change into a fluke and decide up her belt.

On the opposite hand, Michael Bisping thinks Alexa Grasso will defend her title as he thinks the Mexican is honest the next fighter than Valentina Shevchenko.

“It will in all probability in all probability even sound loopy, however I believe Alexa is the better fighter,” Bisping said on his YouTube channel (h/t MMAJunkie). “That doesn’t sound loopy to me at all. I believed Alexa looked essentially correct. I believe that Valentina Shevchenko has been a dominant force for see you later, however all people has their time. Every person has their cease. Every person has their initiating attach of the tip. Is this the initiating attach of the tip of Shevchenko? Are her simplest days in the aid of her? I don’t know – perchance. Perchance she had an off evening. Perchance Alexa Grasso is honest the next fighter. I believed she looked very nicely. It absolutely wasn’t a fluke.”

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Per Michael Bisping, he believes the truth Valentina Shevchenko change into this form of dominant champion for see you later hinders her. Bisping thinks it’s laborious to aid being motivated because the champion for see you later, which is why he thinks Alexa Grasso will stay the champ in September.

“I’m keen on Valentina, so this is now not an insult, she (change into) a dominant champion, and most continuously you birth going in the mind space, take care of George St-Pierre, that you just fetch too passive in the conflict, perchance a little bit of too defensive,” Michael Bisping said. “She needs to head aid to being that hungry killer. She needs to head forward and be the aggressor, as in opposition to looking to counter your total time. But who am I to take a seat down down here and critique Shevchenko with the profession she’s had.”