Amanda Nunes Beats Irene Aldana to Defend Women’s Bantamweight Title at UFC 289
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Amanda Nunes exits the UFC as a champion.
The 35-year-historic successfully defended her bantamweight championship along with her unanimous probability victory over Irene Aldana at UFC 289 on Saturday night, and she promptly announced her retirement from combating following the bout.
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The Lioness DOMINATES all 5 rounds on this one 🦁 #UFC289 pic.twitter.com/7dEyFi5C3v
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Amanda Nunes leaves each of her belts on the canvas. “Tonight is the wonderful night to retire” #UFC289
Nunes has been as shut to an unstoppable force as there has been in mixed martial arts over the final 9 years. She’s won 14 of her closing 15 bouts, including Saturday, and avenged her lone loss throughout that span when she beat Julianna Peña to rep the bantamweight title at UFC 277.
No subject her Corridor-of-Reputation resume and being arguably the correct ladies’s fighter in UFC historical past, Nunes has had her hunger to remain monumental called into demand now no longer too long ago. UFC president Dana White did it publicly going into her rematch with Peña.
“Amanda is a rich individual that is now at a in point of fact utterly different financial jam,” White told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto in June 2022 (h/t Farah Hannoun of MMA Junkie). She has a baby now. Her existence – she is now no longer that hungry savage she became once when she began to take this scamper at changing proper into a world champion. Heaps of that components in.”
Nunes is one in every of three warring parties in UFC historical past to take care of two titles simultaneously. Conor McGregor (featherweight and gentle-weight) and Daniel Cormier (gentle heavyweight and heavyweight) are the others.
The Brazilian huge name entered Saturday as the bantamweight and featherweight champion, having held the latter title since December 2018.
Aldana became once given her first UFC title fight fairly gradual within the possess for this snarl. It became once firstly going to be headlined by a third bout between Nunes and Peña, but Peña suffered damaged ribs throughout coaching.
White named Aldana as the replacement for the foremost occasion on Would possibly perhaps per chance 2. She entered this bout with a pedestrian 7-4 sage in 11 UFC fights, but won four of her outdated five fights with three thru knockout or TKO throughout that span.
Nunes became once a mountainous step up in competition for Aldana, and the champion made it snarl with the eight winning title defense of her legendary occupation.
