UFC 259 file rundown: Amanda Nunes vs. Megan Anderson
On Saturday, Amanda Nunes puts one in all her two UFC titles on the line when she faces Megan Anderson within the co-predominant occasion of the UFC 259 pay-per-peer card. At stake is the girls folks’s featherweight championship. Nunes also holds the girls folks’s bantamweight crown.
Nunes opened her UFC profession on a 2-1 sprint. That one loss, a 2014 TKO setback to Cat Zingano, stays the excellent blemish on her file. Nunes enters her 145-pound title battle on an 11-battle profitable sprint. Of those 11 fights, her previous eight trips to the octagon were title fights. That number contains her most up-to-date battle, a June 2020 protection of her featherweight belt. Nunes defeated Felicia Spencer by the usage of unanimous decision in that bout. Forward of that accumulate, Nunes had defended the bantamweight title 5 events.
Anderson joined the UFC in 2018 after she received the intervening time Invicta FC featherweight title. Anderson went 1-2 in her first three UFC fights. She is coming off two consecutive first-spherical stoppage wins. Anderson submitted Zarah Fairn Dos Santos in 2019 and knocked out Norma Dumont Viana in 2020.
UFC 259 takes region on Saturday from UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The pay-per-peer portion of the cardboard streams on ESPN+.
Earlier than Saturday’s UFC 259 pay-per-peer card, recall a bear a look at where Nunes stands within the UFC file book.
Amanda Nunes UFC records
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| Amanda Nunes |
| Total UFC records |
| Nunes ranks ninth in UFC historic previous with an 11-battle profitable sprint |
| Nunes is tied for sixth in UFC title battle wins with eight |
| Total UFC girls folks’s bantamweight records |
| Nunes is tied for 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with 12 fights |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with 11 wins |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with eight finishes |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with six knockout wins |
| Nunes is tied for 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with two submission wins |
| Nunes is tied for ninth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with three decision wins |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with a 9-battle profitable sprint |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with six title battle wins |
| Nunes ranks 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with four battle evening bonuses |
| Nunes ranks fifth in shortest moderate battle time in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous at 9: 50 |
| Nunes ranks seventh in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with a total battle time of 1: 58: 04 |
| Nunes ranks fourth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in adjust time with 38: 50 |
| Nunes ranks 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in top region time with 36: 28 |
| Nunes ranks sventh in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in top region percentage at 30.9 p.c |
| Nunes ranks seventh in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous inbottom region percentage at 8.23 p.c |
| Nunes ranks first in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with three knockdowns landed |
| Nunes ranks fourth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with 0.38 knockdowns per 15 minutes |
| Nunes ranks fourth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with 500 significnat strikes landed |
| Nunes ranks fourth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with a predominant hanging accuracy of 49.7 p.c |
| Nunes ranks ninth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with 4.23 predominant strikes landedper minute |
| Nunes ranks 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous instriking differential at plus 1.93 |
| Nunes ranks 10th in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in predominant hanging protection at 57.8 p.c |
| Nunes ranks seventh in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in strikes absorbed per minute with 2.3 |
| Nunes ranks seventh in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in total strikes landed with 719 |
| Nunes ranks 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in takedowns landed with 19 |
| Nunes is tied for sixth in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in takedown accuracy at 50 p.c |
| Nunes ranks 2nd in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous in takedown protection at 77.3 p.c |
| Nunes is tied for fith in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with six submission makes an strive |
| Nunes ranks 10th in UFC girls folks’s bantamweight historic previous with an moderate of 0.76 submissions per 15 minutes |