Manon Fiorot can’t get herself to rewatch her title loss to UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko.
Fiorot (13-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) lost a unanimous decision to Shevchenko in their title fight at UFC 315 last May. Although she won two rounds, Fiorot doesn’t take any positives from her performance.
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“I still can’t get myself to watch that fight,” Fiorot told MMA Junkie. “I still haven’t watched it. I think I’ll watch it if I fight her again, but for now, I don’t see the use in watching it. For me, it wasn’t a good fight. I wasn’t in a good mindset. I made a lot of mistakes.
“I didn’t really have a game plan for this fight. It was me that didn’t want to. My coaches had a game plan, but I didn’t listen. I overtrained for the fight. I had a few injuries, but nothing serious. But I overtrained. I got to the fight a little tired.”
The loss fueled Fiorot, who was able to rebound with a first-round TKO of the streaking Jasmine Jasudavicius at UFC Fight Night 262 this past October.
“I changed a lot of things before this fight,” Fiorot said. “I did my camp in Montreal at Tristar, so I changed teams. It was something new for me, so I had a lot of pressure for this fight. I knew this fight I was better than the last Manon, but I didn’t expect to finish her in a minute.”
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Fiorot admits she never watched tape on her opponents because it put a lot pressure on her. However, since the Jasudavicius fight and moving forward, things will be different.
“I changed my way of training,” Fiorot said. “I enjoyed training way more. I put an actual strategy for this fight. We had a very specific game plan, which I didn’t have for my previous fights. I previously struggled to watch tape on my opponents, which is what I really changed for this fight. I really studied Jasmine. I watched a lot of her past fights, which I didn’t do before, and I worked a lot on my tactics, my technique.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Manon Fiorot opens up on loss to UFC champion Valentina Shevchenko
