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UFC 224 now officially has a title fight. UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will put her title on the line against top ranked contender Raquel Pennington on May 12 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The news had previously been reported in F…
UFC 224 now officially has a title fight. UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will put her title on the line against top ranked contender Raquel Pennington on May 12 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The news had previously been reported in February but UFC officials announced the pairing on Thursday with confirmation for UFC […]
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The UFC has officially announced Amanda Nunes’ next opponent. On Thursday (March 8, 2018), the promotion announced that the women’s bantamweight champion would make her next title defense against rising contender Raquel Pennington at the upcoming UFC 224 pay-per-view event. Nunes comes into this fight on a six fight winning streak. She won the title […]
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The UFC has officially announced Amanda Nunes’ next opponent.
On Thursday (March 8, 2018), the promotion announced that the women’s bantamweight champion would make her next title defense against rising contender Raquel Pennington at the upcoming UFC 224 pay-per-view event.
Nunes comes into this fight on a six fight winning streak. She won the title from Ronda Rousey, which marked the final bout of her storied pro-MMA career, back in December of 2016 at UFC 207.
In her most recent bout, she successfully retained her title against Valentina Shevchenko by split decision in September at UFC 215.
On the flip side, Pennington is coming into this fight on a four fight winning streak that includes wins over Jéssica Andrade, Bethe Correia, and Elizabeth Phillips.
Her most recent fight came back in November of 2016 at UFC 205 when she picked up a win over former women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate.
The UFC 224 pay-per-view event is slated to go down on Saturday, May 12 in Rio de Janeiro. The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.
As of this writing, the Las Vegas-based promotion has yet to finalize the lineup for this card but they will be announcing more bouts for this upcoming pay-per-view event in the coming weeks. Here is the updated card:
Champ Amanda Nunes vs. Raquel Pennington – for women’s bantamweight title
Ronaldo Souza vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Vitor Belfort vs. Lyoto Machida
Nick Hein vs. Davi Ramos
Ramazan Emeev vs. Alberto Mino
Junior Albini vs. Aleksei Oliynyk
Cezar Ferreira vs. Karl Roberson
Jack Hermansson vs. Thales Leites
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Amanda Nunes isn’t exactly feeling the love from a fellow Brazilian fighter. Nunes is the reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion. While negotiations are in place for her to fight Raquel Pennington next, …
Amanda Nunes isn’t exactly feeling the love from a fellow Brazilian fighter. Nunes is the reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion. While negotiations are in place for her to fight Raquel Pennington next, UFC president Dana White is leaning towards Nunes vs. Cris Cyborg. It’s a bout that both fighters have shown interest […]
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UFC president Dana White already liked the idea of Cris Cyborg facing Amanda Nunes in a super fight and now he wants to see it even more. On Saturday night, Cyborg dispatched former Yana Kunitskaya in impressive fashion as the Brazilian wrecking machin…
UFC president Dana White already liked the idea of Cris Cyborg facing Amanda Nunes in a super fight and now he wants to see it even more. On Saturday night, Cyborg dispatched former Yana Kunitskaya in impressive fashion as the Brazilian wrecking machine made short work of the former Invicta FC champion with a first […]
It’s clear what will be next for UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg. As seen in the main event of Saturday’s (March 3, 2018) UFC 222 event on pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cyborg successfully retained her title against newcomer Yana Kunitskaya by picking up a TKO win in the first […]
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It’s clear what will be next for UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg.
As seen in the main event of Saturday’s (March 3, 2018) UFC 222 event on pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cyborg successfully retained her title against newcomer Yana Kunitskaya by picking up a TKO win in the first round.
Now, it appears that a champion vs. champion clash between Cyborg and UFC women’s bantamweight bout Amanda Nunes is just a matter of time from being made official.
As a result of this latest win, not only did she add to her legacy but she was able to record her second consecutive successful defense of her women’s featherweight title.
Following the fight, she addressed a potential fight with Nunes.
“She’s going to fight now, defend her title belt in Brazil in May, I think, and then probably I’m going to fight in July if she wins and is the champion,” Cyborg said of Nunes, who is reported to be defending her own title against Raquel Pennington at UFC 224 on May 12 in Brezil. “And now she’s calling me out, I’m not calling Amanda out. She’s calling me out. And yeah, I could fight her in July.”
“Amanda, she’s the champion at 135,” Cyborg said (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting). “I respect her being the champion, but I don’t think she fight anybody like me, too. Then she’s going up to 145, I know she’s had a couple of fights at 145 before, but the one thing like I said, I never want to fight a Brazilian, but when I was the champion over in Strikeforce in my division, we never had the opportunity to fight each other because she was never getting close.
“Now she’s the champion at 135, she’s calling me out, OK, let’s do this fight. I’m gonna train and be ready and what she’s going to do for me, I don’t think about this. I just think about what I’m going to do to her.”
“I don’t know, but for me I think it’s going to be too soon,” Cyborg said in regards to the May date. “Because I’m going to Brazil and then I have a lot of things to do. I’m going to adopt and bring my niece with me, and it’s going to be at the end of March, and I accepted this fight (with Kunitskaya) because it’s the beginning of March and it [fit into] my plan. But I don’t know, let’s see, it’d be exciting.”
It should be noted that Nunes-Pennington showdown has yet to be made official by the promotion.
Nunes recently said that the idea of fighting Cyborg was no personal, but she would be open to the fight.
UFC president Dana White is high on the idea of two top female stars meeting in the Octagon.
“(Cyborg)’s a beast,” White said. “The fight to make is her and Nunes. That’s the fight that needs to happen. Nunes wants the fight, she wants the fight, I want the fight, I’m sure the fans want to see it, too, so we’ll get that one going.”
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Cat Zingano may have been gone for a while but she’s never forgotten. The former UFC title contender returns this weekend where she will face Ketlen Vieira in what could ultimately be a No. 1 contender’s bout in the women’s bantamweig…
Cat Zingano may have been gone for a while but she’s never forgotten. The former UFC title contender returns this weekend where she will face Ketlen Vieira in what could ultimately be a No. 1 contender’s bout in the women’s bantamweight division. While Zingano is coming off two straight losses, she faced nothing but top […]