{"id":40932,"date":"2026-10-08T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Natalia-Silva-tells-Valentina-Shevchenko-to-get-in-line-for-UFC-belt-203129"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:46:08","slug":"natalia-silva-tells-valentina-shevchenko-to-get-in-line-for-ufc-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/natalia-silva-tells-valentina-shevchenko-to-get-in-line-for-ufc-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalia Silva tells Valentina Shevchenko to ‘get in line’ for UFC belt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Natalia
\nSilva<\/a> has responded to Cong Wang<\/a>\u2019s
\neye-poke claim, Dana White\u2019s assessment of their title fight and
\nValentina
\nShevchenko<\/a>\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n

Silva captured the vacant
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> women\u2019s flyweight title by
\ndefeating Wang by unanimous decision in the UFC
\n332<\/a> main event on Oct. 3 in Salt Lake City, extending her UFC
\nwinning streak to nine and her overall run to 15 consecutive
\nvictories. She plans to make her first title defense in 2027.<\/p>\n

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Natalia Silva disputes Cong Wang’s eye-poke claim and Dana
\nWhite’s UFC 332 assessment<\/h2>\n

Speaking to Sherdog, Silva addressed several post-fight
\ndevelopments. In a video posted on social media after the bout,
\nWang claimed an eye poke early in the fight affected her
\nperformance. Silva disputed the Chinese flyweight\u2019s account,
\ninsisting that her hand was closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw what she said after the fight. She said my finger brushed
\nagainst her eye, but my hand was closed,\u201d Silva said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an
\nillegal eye poke, as it ended up being portrayed online.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also pushed back on White\u2019s suggestion that Wang would regret
\nher performance after watching the bout again. The Brazilian argued
\nthat her strategy had limited her opponent\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked about that with my coach,\u201d Silva added. \u201cMaster always
\ntells me that whenever I win, people criticize my opponent as if
\nshe were a bad fighter, but that\u2019s not it. Our strategy is so well
\nexecuted that we\u2019re able to impose our game plan and the opponent
\ncan\u2019t do what she had planned to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former champion Shevchenko, who vacated the title because of
\ninjury, congratulated Silva before telling her to keep the belt
\nwarm until her return. The new 125-pound titleholder told \u201cBullet\u201d
\nto wait her turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you very much for watching the fight, now that you have time
\nto follow the division,\u201d Silva continued. \u201cBut there\u2019s something
\nwrong with what she said. The belt isn\u2019t hers; it\u2019s mine. I waited
\na long time for Valentina. I was supposed to fight her, but the UFC
\ngave me Alexa
\nGrasso<\/a> in May 2025, and then they gave me Namajunas in January.
\nNow she wants to fight? That\u2019s fine. She can just get in line.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natalia Silva has responded to Cong Wang\u2019s eye-poke claim, Dana White\u2019s assessment of their title fight and Valentina Shevchenko\u2019s warning. Silva captured the vacant Ultimate Fighting Championship women\u2019s flyweight title by defeating Wang by unanimous decision in the UFC 332 main event on Oct. 3 in Salt Lake City, extending her UFC winning streak to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}