Nunes on girls’s 145 division doubtlessly folding: ‘I’m okay with it’

The UFC’s feminine bantamweight and featherweight champion is ready to to find assist to commercial for her first outing of 2021. Paired up towards Megan Anderson to protect the 145-pound title at UFC 259, Amanda Nunes is no longer taking her competitors lightly and expects a worthy match on Saturday night.

In an intervew with Combate, Nunes sang Anderson’s praises and known as the dilapidated Invicta FC champion a unhealthy opponent. In truth, Amanda mentioned Megan’s superior reach and height advantage are weapons the Australian is conscious of the exact technique to make employ of very successfully and must now not be underestimated in the cage.

“Anything can happen in MMA. A strike lands and it’s doubtless you’ll per chance perhaps conclude up submitted or knocked out. I have faith Megan is an especially unhealthy athlete. I’m able to’t shriek here goes to be a really easy combat. There’s no such thing. She’s unhealthy. She’s coming off two wins and he or she has nothing to lose. She desires what’s mine and I’m able to salvage to watch out. She’s a extremely plump fighter and he or she is conscious of the exact technique to make employ of her reach very successfully. I’m able to salvage to watch out and impact the exact choices on the exact time so nothing goes nasty.”

Even though Amanda is made up our minds to protect the featherweight title for the 2d time in a row, the champion says she didn’t ignore her bantamweight belt. In truth, Nunes restful desires to protect it no longer no longer as a lot as yet another time earlier than deciding what’s next. For now, the ‘Lioness’ is merely watching the title characterize manufacture to survey who could be a becoming challenger in the near future.

“I’ve been following the division and I enact intend to protect the belt. I don’t know how my physique is doing. I have faith I’ll want to undergo a minute of to impact weight, however I enact want to protect it no longer no longer as a lot as yet another time. The title characterize is increasing, with Kunitskaya and Pena. Some sharp names are emerging, let’s see what the UFC will enact. We’ve Pena facing Holm and we’ll see what they enact with Kunitskaya.”

“Germaine has no fights booked, so that they’ll with out a doubt impact that combat. I glimpse on the division and I do know what could per chance perhaps well happen, Issues could per chance perhaps well to find sharp if, as an instance, Pena or Kunitskaya salvage been to to find. Then handiest Holm and Germaine remain. When Valentina used to be restful spherical, it used to be Holm, Germaine and Valentina. Let’s see if we are able to shake things up now. I’m very mad for these fights.”

Even though Amanda spoke about struggling to carve weight assist to the bantamweight division, she would now not seem too anxious about girls’s featherweight turning into an extinct weight class. In an interview with BT Sport, Nunes regarded at ease if the UFC decides to conclude the division after the Megan Anderson bout.

“I bid bask in after this combat, the UFC can salvage to take into fable what they want to enact with the division, on fable of I the truth is salvage the belt, the belt goes to be mine forever,” Nunes educated BT Sport. “This division has to retire with the belt being mine. So no topic they want to enact after this combat, they’ll enact with the division. I’m okay with it.”

In her final outing, in June 2020, Amanda Nunes (20-4) defeated Felicia Spencer by draw of unanimous decision and extented her to find tear to 11 fights in a row. The spectacular plug involves wins over Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg, Valentina Shevchenko and Holly Holm, among others. The 32-twelve months-extinct’s final loss took net site in September 2014, when she bought TKO’d by Cat Zingano.

Now, Amanda Nunes is anticipated to to find on Megan Anderson at UFC 259, on March 7, on the UFC Apex, in Las Vegas. The cardboard is scheduled to be headlined by a superfight for the sunshine heavyweight belt, between champion Jan Blachowicz and the middleweight title-holder, Israel Adesanya.