In a recent video with Helen Yee, UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko took shots down the range and discussed some of her past wild training injuries in Brazil, where she trained near the Amazon rainforest. The women’s MMA great said the following:
“We spent a lot of time in the Amazon jungle—jaguars, piranhas, crocodiles. You have to be prepared and have something reliable to protect yourself. Once, I leaned on a tree full of spines—one went under my nail. That’s when you realize where you are.