UFC has Amanda Nunes as featherweight champion, but recently the fighter announced her departure from the team seven years after arriving at the gym.
The UFC has Amanda Nunes as featherweight champion, and this Wednesday, the 18th, she opened up the reason for her departure from the American Top Team, about seven years after arriving at the academy. During this period, she even won the bantamweight (61.2kg) and featherweight (65.8kg) belts, establishing herself as the best MMA fighter of all time.
In an interview with the podcast “Trocação Franca”, Amanda Nunes admitted that the arrival of some of her competitors, especially Kayla Harrison and Yana Kunitskaya, on the team influenced his decision. In a way, the star UFC was uncomfortable with the news in the team, and preferred to follow other career paths.
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“There’s that saying, ‘Boys to move.’ I was, of course, annoyed by the whole situation. At American Top Team, when I arrived, there were no girls, and I was the first woman to bring both women’s belts and put on the women’s team in history. When Kayla got there and then Kunitskaya went too, it started to create ice for me”, he said,
“That was my territory. When (Kunitskaya) arrived, it was already in their heads and could be a future opponent if she beat Ketlen (Vieira), and she arrived at that stage of her career, when she was close to being the next opponent. I was startled when I entered the gym. I looked and said, ‘No, no’. It created an ice. Kayla also started talking. I said, ‘Man, I’m not even safe in my territory'”, said the fighter.
In fact, Kunitskaya actually beat Vieira, but ended up losing to Irene Aldana soon after, and shortly thereafter became pregnant with the Brazilian fighter Thiago Marreta. Kayla, on the other hand, was at the end of her contract with the PFL in December, and every time she was asked about facing Amanda Nunes, she responded positively.
Thus, on the eve of the Bahian struggle against Julianna Penaspeculations were already circulating that she would actually sign with the UFC to later challenge the Brazilian in the featherweight division, something that even the UFC president himself, Dana Whitementioned after Peña’s victory in the match.
“I was a little cornered, because we share the same trainers. She trains with Mike Brown, I train with Mike Brown. When she got there, I was already training with them. And when she started to say she wanted to fight me, she got more I said, show the ball she wants to fight me, but then it takes one more thing. If she wants to fight me, she has to prepare her somewhere else. If there’s a person who wants to take the name of the academy, I’m the one who brought the two belts in here. If I wasn’t who I am, I would still be champion of both categories when she was talking, that’s okay”, revealed Amanda.
Source: sportbuzz
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