Michelle Waterson-Gomez thinks it was a bad idea for Manon Fiorot to fuel the fire underneath Valentina Shevchenko going into UFC 315.
In her pursuit to secure Saturday's women's flyweight title shot against Shevchenko (24-4-1 MMA, 13-3-1 UFC) at Bell Centre in Montreal (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+), the streaking Fiorot (12-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) claimed she would retire from MMA if she falls short of gold, and that the champion isn't the dominant force she used to be.
Shevchenko told MMA Junkie she expects Fiorot to honor those words if she fails this weekend, and intends to make it definitive.