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Photos – Fans mock EA Sports UFC 5 new character models after confirmation of new cover athletes

Fans mock EA Sports UFC 5 cover athletes and new character models Adesanya Volkanovski Shevchenko Ahead of a full-scale reveal later this week, Canadian publisher and developer, EA Sports have received flak for their apparent new character models on next generation video game consoles, ahead of the release of UFC 5 later this year. Reports emerged late last month detailing how the publisher had decided on undisputed featherweight champion, Alexander […]

Ahead of a full-scale reveal later this week, Canadian publisher and developer, EA Sports have received flak for their apparent new character models on next generation video game consoles, ahead of the release of UFC 5 later this year.

Reports emerged late last month detailing how the publisher had decided on undisputed featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski, and former undisptued flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko as the cover athletes for the new release of EA Sports UFC 5 later this year.

And furthermore, ahead of his own Octagon return at UFC 293 this weekend in Sydney, Australia, undisputed middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya – who featured as a cover athlete for EA Sports UFC 4, has returned to the cover, exclusively on the deluxe edition of the video game, however.

EA Sports UFC 5 features Alex Volkanovski and Valentina Shevchenko as cover stars

Reacting to the confirmation of the news, fans across social media have scoffed at apparent new character models created for EA Sports UFC 5 – particularly questioning the similarities and likeness of featherweight champion, Volkanovski, and his non-digitially created counterpart.

“The Great (shaking hands emoji) The Bullet,” EA Sports UFC posted on their official X account,” Your @UFC5 Standard Edition cover athletes Alexander Volkanovski and Valentina Shevchenko.”

“The main character is here,” EA Sports UFC posted on X. “Stylebender has returned as your #UFC5 Deluxe Edition cover athlete.”

Slated to make his return on the cover of EA Sports UFC 5 later this year, undisputed middleweight champion, Adesanya featured as a cover athlete on the prior instalment of the video game, alongside the recently-retired former two-time welterweight championship challenger, Jorge Masvidal.

Following his loss to Alex Pereira at UFC 281 back in November of last year, on digital versions of the video game, the Brazilian replaced Adesanya on the cover of EA Sports UFC 4 – before the City Kickboxing staple was reinstalled as the cover athlete after his own KO win over Pereira in April of this year.

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Valentina Shevchenko warns Alexa Grasso ahead of Noche UFC, claims mistake ‘Will not happen ever again’

Former undisputed flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko is firmly gearing up for her Octagon return later this month in the main event of Noche UFC – and claims Alexa Grasso is not destined to echo history and land a submission win, claiming such a stoppage “will not happen ever again” against her. Shevchenko, the current number […]

Shevchenko, the current number one ranked flyweight contender, is scheduled to make her Octagon return at Noche UFC later this month – headlining a ‘Fight Night’ billed card at T-Mobile Arena in an immediate championship rematch with Mexican gold holder, Grasso.

Rematching the pound-for-pound number one, Shevchenko suffered her first loss at the flyweight limit in a huge-upset loss in the co-main event at UFC 285 back in March, dropping a rear-naked choke loss to the Guadalajara title chaser.

Valentina Shevchenko issues stark warning to Alexa Grasso ahead of Noche UFC

However, ahead of her return to the Octagon in a bid to land the flyweight crown for the second time in her UFC tenure, Shevchenko insists that while Grasso managed to capitalize on a slip-up back in March en route to a submission win, the Mexico native has no chance of repeating history.

“Everything was by the plan,” Valentina Shevchenko told Red Corner MMA during a recent interview. “Until the moment in the fourth round, yes. I kind of expected from her (Alexa Grasso) – because she was in the position when she has to bring everything, do something crazy, or something like that. It’s obvious because the contenders, they do these things and I studied her previous fights.”

“I watched her previous fights, I expected what she did and it just happened,” Valentina Shevchenko explained. “It’s not gonna happen every again.”

With her title fight loss to Grasso, fan-favorite Krygsztan native, Shevchenko had suffered her first loss at the flyweight limit in nine fights, having successfully defended the crown on seven separate occasions during her impressive reign.

And outside the Octagon, Shevchenko has been earmarked to reportedly serve as a cover athlete alongside undisputed featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski – for the new EA Sports UFC 5 video game.

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Report – Alexander Volkanovski, Valentina Shevchenko slated as cover stars for EA Sports UFC 5 video game

According to reports this Tuesday evening, undisputed featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski, and former undisptued flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko are set to feature as cover athletes of the new EA Sports UFC 5 video game, with undisputed middleweight kingpin, Israel Adesanya set to feature as a cover athlete on the deluxe version of the game. As […]

As per an initial report from Insider Gaming, EA Sports UFC 5 – which is now scheduled to be released officially on October 27. on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles later this year, will feature Australian favorite, Volkanovski and former flyweight queen, Shevchenko as cover athletes.

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Furthermore, per the initial report, gamers who elect to pre-order the video game released by the Canadian-based publisher and developer, will receive bonuses in the form of playable characters in the game, including former boxing world champion, Mike Tyson, as well as the late, Muhammad Ali, and for the first time in a UFC licensed game, former Pride FC champion, Fedor Emelianenko.

Israel Adesanya features as EA Sports UFC 5 cover star on deluxe edition

Speculation rose last week when an official, albeit brief trailer for the release of EA Sports UFC 5 was released, that Joe Lopez trainee, Volkanovski would be featuring as a cover athlete – with the Australian appearing to feature in the aforenoted trailer.

As noted, City Kickboxing staple, Adesanya, who featured as a cover athlete on EA Sports UFC 4 alongside former undisputed welterweight title challenger, Jorge Masvidal, will make his return in this instalment, as part of a deluxe option to purchase the EA Sports UFC 5 video game.

Yet to be booked since he successfully unified the featherweight titles back in July at UFC 290, Volkanovski most recently landed a TKO win over then-interim gold holder, Yair Rodríguez.

As for Shevchenko, the Krgysztan striker is set to headline a Noche UFC event in September, taking on Mexican champion, Alexa Grasso in the pair’s championship rematch.

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Alexa Grasso vows to end fluke talk in UFC Noche rematch with Valentina Shevchenko: ‘I want to submit her again’

Ahead of her return to the Octagon at UFC Noche next month in Las Vegas, recently-minted undisputed flyweight champion, Alexa Grasso has claimed she hopes to either KO, or once again submit former titleholder, Valentina Shevchenko in the pair’s title re-run – in a bid to end suggestions of a prior fluke victory. Grasso, the […]

Grasso, the current flyweight champion and pound-for-pound number one, has been sidelined since turning in a spectacular upset win at UFC 285 back in March, submitting decorated champion, Shevchenko with a shocking rallying win, submitting the Kyrgyzstan native with a neck crank triumph.

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And booked to make her first attempted title defense in an immediate title re-run atop a UFC Noche event in September at the T-Mobile Arena, Grasso has vowed to finish Shevchenko again – in order to prevent talk of another fluke.

Alexa Grasso vows to rack up submission win over Valentina Shevchenko again

“I would love to knock her (Valentina Shevchenko) out, but I would also like to submit her again with a rear-naked choke so people don’t think it was a fluke, a mistake or anything like that,” Alexa Grasso told MMA Fighting. “I had my plan really clear. I knew she was going to turn, and that was it. It could end by submission, it could be a knockout, but I will win.”

In the midst of a five-fight winning run since making a move up to the flyweight division back in 2020, Mexican fan-favorite, Grasso debuted in the division with a unanimous decision win over Yi Jeon Kim, before beating recent winner, Maycee Barber, as well as Viviane Araujo in decision wins, after a submission success against Joanne Wood.

For Shevchenko, the decorated Muay Thai ace saw her stunning run of title fight wins come to a crashing halt with her upset loss to Grasso in March, having previously turned in a whopping seventh consecutive successful title defense in a close decision win over Taila Santos back in June of last year in Singapore at UFC 275.

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Joanna Jedrzejczyk backs Ronda Rousey receiving immediate title fight in rumored return: ‘It’s her belt’

Future UFC Hall of Famer Joanna Jedrzejczyk believes women’s MMA pioneer Ronda Rousey is more than entitled to walk into a bantamweight title fight should she make her fabled return to the Octagon. Following an impressive unanimous decision victory over Irene Aldana at UFC 289 last month, two-division champ Amanda Nunes announced her retirement from […]

Future UFC Hall of Famer Joanna Jedrzejczyk believes women’s MMA pioneer Ronda Rousey is more than entitled to walk into a bantamweight title fight should she make her fabled return to the Octagon.

Following an impressive unanimous decision victory over Irene Aldana at UFC 289 last month, two-division champ Amanda Nunes announced her retirement from mixed martial arts, vacating the bantamweight title in the process. With the division now wide open, fighters have been coming out of the woodwork in hopes of becoming the next 135-pound queen.

While the likeliest scenario has the division’s top two ranked contenders, Julianna Pena, and Raquel Pennington, vying for the title later this year, one rumor has already turned the division on its head. Recent reports have suggested that the first-ever UFC women’s world champion, Ronda Rousey, may be prepping a return to the UFC now that ‘The Lioness’ is no longer in the picture. Some fuel was added to the fire when rumors started flying that ‘Rowdy’ could be walking away from the WWE where she has been a top draw for the last several years.

Of course, not everyone is thrilled by the idea of Ronda Rousey walking straight into a UFC title after walking away from the sport seven years ago, but for former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk, the bantamweight title has and will always belong to Rousey.

“She can fight for the vacant title. It’s her belt,” Jedrejczyk told The Schmo during International Fight Week.

As for who ‘Rowdy’ could face in a potential title tilt, Jedrzejczyk believes both Julianna Pena and Raquel Pennington would make fine opponents, but specifically noted ‘Rocky’ who has seen a bit of a career resurgence, winning five straight fights in the division.

“It can be Julianna or Raquel,” Jedrejczyk said. “Raquel deserves a title shot. She has a few win streaks so, yeah.”

Joanna Jedrzejczyk Offers Her Thoughts on the Rematch Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko

On September 16, newly crowned UFC flyweight champion Alexa Grasso will return to defend her title for the first time against the same woman she took the title from, Valentina Shevchenko. The two will headline a king-sized Fight Night card inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Asked for her thoughts on the highly anticipated rematch, Jedrzejczyk was unable to offer up a prediction, but she believes Grasso will go into the sequel significantly stronger and more confident than she did the first time around.

“I don’t know. I don’t like to predict the fights,” Jedrzejczyk said. “I know how tough, physically and mentally, Valentina is, but I know how strong you get after winning the UFC belt. It’s a totally different motivation. A different power you get in your head and in your muscles, so I really don’t know.”

Of course, JJ is speaking from experience, capturing the strawweight title with an impressive second-round TKO against two-time titleholder Carla Esparza at UFC 185. ‘Joanna Violence’ went on to defend the title an incredible five times.

“It feels like this extra power you can see,” Jedrzejczyk said of winning a UFC championship. “You feel like the whole universe is in you, with you, and behind your back. A perfect example is Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman. That’s a perfect example of how challengers are becoming the champions and how dominant they are becoming” (h/t MiddleEasy).