“I got very comfortable”- Amanda Nunes reacts to Dana White’s claims of her losing the ‘hunger to compete’
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Amanda Nunes and Dana White
MMA is not an easy sport to excel at for a long time. Even the greatest like Amanda Nunes fall at some point and Dana White believes it is highly unlikely that someone as successful as Nunes for a long period of time has the hunger to climb back up to the top.
In 2021, at UFC 269, the combat sports world witnessed one of the biggest upsets of the sport as Julianna Pena dethroned the GWOAT Amanda Nunes to become the bantamweight champion of UFC.
Leading up to the fight, Julianna was a huge underdog and Amanda was guaranteed to walk through Pena in her title defense. However, Julianna’s self-belief and willpower helped her achieve the impossible. Amanda still is a champion of the women’s featherweight division in UFC but that weight class has barely any contenders.
“I want to rest a little bit”- Amanda Nunes talks about what happened before her fight against Julianna Pena
Losing the bantamweight belt was a huge deal to the entire world but Dana White doubts if it was to Nunes. After defeating so many hungry contenders, Dana claims Amanda lost her hunger to compete, and that made all the difference.
Dana believes a lot of factors play into Amanda’s motivation to beat Julianna in her rematch at UFC 277 in July of 2022. However, Julianna on the other hand is only starting to taste success in her life ever since her win in The Ultimate Fighter.
Amanda made a lot of changes in her training camp for the rematch, she parted ways with her long-time gym ATT, and now she is training from her own gym. Amanda reacted to Dana’s claim, and in a recent interview with ESPN, she said, “Yeah, I got very comfortable, and you want to enjoy your life when you do all the things that I did. I want to travel, I want to go see my family, I want to rest a little bit. And then the tendency is like, you slow down a little bit.”
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