UFC Woman's Flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko is a fighter who found her weight class early. She did well at strawweight, found out the hard way she was too small for bantamweight, but since winning the flyweight championship against Jedrzejczyk in the fight that inaugurated the belt, she has crushed everyone who has stood in her way.

For challenger Jessica Andrade, she started at bantamweight then made the big drop to strawweight after realizing she was undersized for the division. Then, even though she won the belt at 115 lbs, she struggled with cutting weight to make the limit. Then the flyweight division was created to split the difference and, in her debut against Kaitlyn Chookagian, it looked like Andrade was the UFC's goldilocks.

Andrade's first round TKO was so smooth that it guaranteed a title shot against Shevchenko next. The UFC hype machine makes sure that every contender is actually the most dangerous challenge for the belt – in this case it's true.

Shevchenko's style is pinpoint precise muay thai, but it's done as a counterfighter. She lets the opponent set the tempo, figures it out then goes for the kill. Andrade, on the other hand, is a power puncher who constantly moves forward. How would Shevchenko apply her style to an opponent who could reasonably finish her with one combination?

Shevchenko didn't even try to answer. She did what all the best champions do and changer the question: not even two minutes into the fight, she gave up on finding her range and took Andrade to the mat with a body lock. Andrade got up but Shevchenko maintained her grip and swept her opponent to the ground with ease.

Andrade, as befitting a woman who fought for four years at 135 lbs, is freakishly strong and Shevchenko was taking her down effortlessly. Even when she powered out, Shevchenko would then engage with a quick jab combination and then grab another body lock.

It's one thing for a fighter to already excel, way beyond her peers – the only person to have beaten Shevchenko in the past decade is Amanda Nunes, and one of those fights was at bantamweight – but for that fighter to then master a second discipline, it's scary.

With 2:13 remaining, Shevchenko tripped Andrade from the body lock position against the cage and jumped on top to apply a rear naked choke. Andrade is a BJJ black belt and forced her way out, and yet she couldn't shake Shevchenko's grip. The champion maintained control and began launching hard knees to the head and body.

The round ended with Andrade struggling free and, again, getting taken down. According to UFCstats.com, Shevchenko landed 100 percent of her takedowns that round and maintained control for almost three minutes of the five-minute round.

It wasn't even 20 seconds into Round 2 before Shevchenko did it again. This time, it became clear what Shevchenko's key talent is here. Andrade was the one to initiate the clinch this time and, as she went to throw the champion, Shevchenko hooked her leg around the back of Andrade and reversed the momentum.

Andrade has immense strength, Shevchenko has technique. It was as if she expected Andrade to muscle into and out of everything and drilled every possible counter to ensure she always ended in top position.

When Andrade forced Shevchenko up, she intentionally backed into the cage so Andrade couldn't lift or slam her, then locked in underhooks so she couldn't even be hit at full force. As Andrade tried to back up to get in striking range, Shevchenko once again body locked her, took her down and, this time, leapt into the crucifix position.

She did this to Chookagian at UFC 247. With Andrade's left arm sandwiched between her legs, and Andrade's right arm pressed to the mat with her shoulder, Shevchenko was free to ground and pound without any resistance.

Valentine Shevchenko defeated Jessica Andrade by TKO in 3:19 of the second round. UFCstats.com says, in this round, the champion got both her takedowns and landed 64 of 65 strikes, 22 of which were deemed significant strikes and almost all of them came in from the crucifix.

Shevchenko is known for being vicious and violent – both of which were on fine display here – and now she's added high level grappling to her arsenal, who can stop her now?