“I beat the most dominating woman on the planet. I feel like I deserve it now.”
UFC women’s bantamweight and featherweight champ Amanda Nunes isn’t short on confidence.
After capturing not one, but two UFC world titles, and scoring dominant wins over Cris Cyborg, Ronda Rousey and Valentina Shevchenko, ‘The Lioness’ believes she has cemented her name in the history books as the greatest fighter of all-time.
Nunes stated her case for GOAT status at a recent UFC 239 pre-fight media scrum in Los Angeles (h/t Dave Doyle and John Morgan of MMA Junkie).
“Yeah, it’s for sure,” Nunes said on Monday. “I am the greatest of all-time. I beat the most dominating woman on the planet. I feel like I deserve it now.”
“I proved it. I’m the best – I proved it. I’ve been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight. Don’t run. Put (on) a show. I feel like the fans like that and they respect me for that. And I feel good – I feel happy when they tell me I’m the best. I’m too happy.”
Nunes is very excited for her upcoming bantamweight title defense against former champ Holly Holm at UFC 239, where a win could see the Brazilian move into the UFC’s official top-five pound-for-pound rankings.
“I feel like I am definitely excited for this fight – definitely,” Nunes said. “Definitely excited more to see how my game plan in the cage is going to be. My mind is going to be (fine), because Holly is a great fighter. She moves a lot. She has good boxing, she has good kicks. I have to be on point with my game plan to be able to capitalize and finish the fight.”
UFC 239, which features Nunes vs. Holm in the co-main event, takes place next month, July 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.