‘I’m SO proud’: Celebrity Shevchenko’s MOTHER turns into MMA world champ days earlier than icon and sister return on similar UFC card (VIDEO)

Valentina Shevchenko has revealed that her mom, Elena, has change into a World Muay Thai Champion – simply days earlier than the ladies’s flyweight champion and sibling Antonina are set to change into the primary sisters on the identical UFC card.

Shevchenko senior, who’s president of the Kyrgyzstan Muay Thai Federation, carried out a sequence of strikes on a mat in entrance of the group’s flag in a digital event as she demonstrated her shadow boxing expertise within the self-discipline that her daughters began out in.

The 56-year-old’s gold medal certificates was duly shared by Shevchenko together with her fanbase of greater than 1.6 million on Instagram, having supplied inspiration for her youngest daughter forward of her assembly with Jennifer Maia at UFC 255 on Saturday.

“My mother was getting ready for about two months for the World IFMA (Worldwide Federation of Muaythai Associations) Muay Thai Championships,” Shevchenko informed ESPN, talking glowingly of the a number of Kyrgystan champion.

In case you questioned how Valentina Shevchenko [@BulletValentina] grew to become so good at what she does…that is her mother.

Received’t be speaking again to her.#bulletvalentina #mma #ufc #valentinashevchenko pic.twitter.com/bYggUiccb0

— The D'Arce Joke (@darcejoke) November 6, 2020

The hardest mother on planet 💪

— GoonErjan (@Yerginio) November 19, 2020

Congratulations to the Mom Champion!

— Armaan Younis (@armaanyounis) November 19, 2020

“She has a gold medal and I’m so proud to be her daughter. That is so motivational for me.” 

In response to the federation’s data, Elena final fought when she secured a factors win in a Masters Feminine Over-41 combat nearly precisely ten years in the past.

Shevchenko could have the possibility to look at one other shut relative in motion when her sister – former Muay Thai mild heavyweight world champion Antonina – takes on Brazilian “Queen of Violence” Ariane Lipski earlier within the evening.

The pair have by no means fought collectively on the identical UFC invoice, though they’ve typically been a part of the identical Muay Thai occasions.

Yep.. If you happen to thought @AntoninaPantera or @BulletValentina had been harmful sufficient.. Their mother can be a foul ass too! Don’t mess with the Shevchenkos! #onebadassfamily #ufc255 @ell_shevchenko https://t.co/0MRk3bE8fk

— Matthew Lo (@matthewlo25) November 19, 2020

“We’ve got been in martial arts for thus lengthy and skilled so many alternative types of competitors,” stated Shevchenko, including that the household affair was “positively not a distraction”.

“Again after we fought in Muay Thai, we had been combating on the identical card and in the identical championship each time.

“I used to be combating within the decrease weight class and he or she is increased, as we had a 5 or six-pound distinction between weight lessons.

“It was like me actually combating the finals and he or she was subsequent to me. So, she was simply getting ready, ready for when my combat was finished.”

“For somebody who is experiencing it for the very first time, there most likely can be new emotions – however not in our case, completely not.

“I actually cherished to combat on the identical card as a result of we educated collectively, had coaching camps collectively, supported one another and rested collectively after the combat. That is good.”

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