“That experience was very cool”- Amanda Nunes hopes to dabble in coaching after her TUF experience
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Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena
Amanda Nunes was recently part of TUF against her title rival Juliana Pena. The fighters will finally have their title rematch at UFC 277 on 31st July inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The expectations and hype around this fight is humongous as this is arguably one of biggest rivalries in the history of female MMA. The first time the pair fought last year, Pena gave the world of MMA one of the biggest upsets as she submitted Nunes in the second round.
This time, Nunes is coming back for her revenge and it is going to be a massive clash. Pena is full of confidence and will not lose her crown that easily. Nunes will have to giver her best and come up with new and impactful strategy to get back her title.
Amanda Nunes on her TUF experience and coaching the new blood of fighters
Ahead of her title fight at UFC 277, Nunes sat down with ESPN MMA’s reporter Marc Raimondi for an interview.
During the conversation, Nunes opened up about her decision to take part in TUF and how it turned out. The former women’s Bantamweight champion revealed that initially she wasn’t convinced as she doesn’t like cameras all around her. But later after doing it Nunes is pleased to take part and coaching new generation fighters. Nunes described that her meeting and training with new fighters was very impressive and she was inspired by their hard work and passion. In the end, Nunes mentioned that the experience was so good that she is thinking of starting coaching after her retirement.
She said:
“First of all I was like a little bit hesitated to go. You know like for me doing interview all. The time being camera is always very hard for me… But like I’m glad that I did it so it was a very good experience. Meet all the fighters there, everybody chasing the dream to be in UFC. It was pretty great to see how hard they work. How passion and love they want to be in the UFC. May be I wanna be a coach later on and that experience was very cool for me.”
Nunes is a legend of the sport and has inspired millions of women to get into the sport and do their best. The Brazilian is a great role model and it must have helped the new fighters in TUF to learn a lot from her. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see the upcoming fight between her and Pena and who will take the win this time.
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