Amanda Nunes Vs Julianna Pena
In the night's headliner, the YouTuber brutally knocked... ‘The thrill & the agony’ could not describe Michael Chiesa’s night in Las Vegas any better. The UFC Welterweight would have all of the emotions on Saturday night at UFC 269. Chiesa attended the star-studded event, sitting next to big names like Miesha Tate JULIANNA PENA and Aljamain Sterling. He would have some of the best seats in the house, but not even these front-row tickets wouldn’t be enough for Chiesa, come the co-main event. The Great came roaring back in the fourth and nearly finished the fight with a brutal barrage of ground and pound that left Ortega bloodied.
That means her upcoming bout against Juliana Pena, on paper, isn’t one to be overly excited about. Amanda Nunes (21-4) is the ‘GOAT’ of women’s MMA and frankly, should be celebrated more. The double champion has cleaned out the bantamweight and featherweight divisions and is on a 12-fight win streak with eight finishes .
In the end, one can expect Amanda Nunes to dominate this bout and get her hands raised by the referee in this big co-main event fight. Peña was expected to face Amanda Nunes for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship on August 7, 2021 at UFC 265. However Nunes tested positive for COVID-19 on July 29, 2021. The bout was rescheduled to UFC 269 on December 11, 2021. After a dominant round one from Nunes, Peña came back in the second to win the bout and championship by rear-naked choke submission in what is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in UFC history.
No one thought Chris Weidman would drop Anderson Silva and anyone who thought Rose Namajunas was going to dispatch Joanna Jedrzejczyk that first time around is lying to you. Mirko Cro Cop lost to Gabriel Gonzaga, Keith Jardine defeated Chuck Liddell. None of them were expected to win on paper, and that’s why fights aren’t determined on paper. Speaking during her post-fight press conference, Pena claimed the UFC needs to create a "Baddest Mum On The Planet" belt for her and that she should be considered the first mother to win a UFC championship - not Nunes. Pena produced one of the biggest upsets in UFC history by dethroning the GOAT to clinch the women's bantamweight title. Pena may prove to be better on the feet or ground than expected, but whichever area she is not, Amanda will quickly identify.
There’s always the chance that Pena can slip in a lucky shot and put Nunes on her butt, just like so many others have done to secure their own upset win. Her run has been so impressive and easily makes her one of the greatest of all time. I do think she is beatable, sometimes she doesn't look where she is punching and just swings .
Either purchase an ESPN+ account ($6.99) or buy the full Disney+ bundle ($13.99), which includes Disney+ and Hulu — a worthwhile investment. Dave Ross, Ricardo Lamas and Phil Brooks preview the fight. Jiu-jitsu – will she be able to control, or even get a submission, on the ground? Featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski agreed that Pena was confronted with an extremely tall order. And if Pena thought she had any hope of causing a huge upset on Sunday in Las Vegas at UFC 269, she had better think again, according to Whittaker. UFC double champion Amanda Nunes is so far ahead of her rivals that her next opponent Julianna Pena’s life is in danger, according to No.1 middleweight contender Robert Whittaker.
Prior to her defeat by Pena, Nunes was unbeaten in seven years, having won 12 fights in a row. In Paiva, O’Malley meets a surging Brazilian on the back of three consecutive victories, with the middle triumph coming during the inaugural Fight Island in Abu Dhabi in July last year. Paiva’s most recent win, a decision success in the short-notice encounter against Kyler Phillips in July, marked his bantamweight bow. No matter what, expect O’Malley to put on a display full of fireworks. Having won 10 out of 14 fights, the American MMA is not easy to tackle down. Julianna Peña$300,000$20,000-Amanda Nunes will earn a guaranteed purse of $500,000 in the fight against Julianna Pena who will earn a purse of $300,000 and $100,000 win bonus as reported by the media.
Former interim champion Poirier, who scored a pair of wins over Conor McGregor earlier this year to earn the title shot, landed some heavy left hands and downed Oliveira as he won the first round. Oliveira got Poirier on his back early in the second, landing thunderous elbows before securing victory in the next round. Purely by the numbers, the greatest MMA upset was Holly Holm's 2015 knockout of Ronda Rousey. That was a shocker, too, considering that Rousey was undefeated and had finished her four most recent previous opponents in 66, 16, 14 and 34 seconds. Rousey was as dominant a force as the sport has ever seen.
Julianna is a person who always believed in herself and believed that she could win this fight if she got it. You heard it at the press conference, you heard it in the months leading up to this fight, and she did it. The greatest part of Pena’s game is her ground and pound. If she can work her way to mount especially, she is particularly sound at working around the guard to land punches, hammerfists, and elbows, without wasting any strikes. She is good at trapping guards and using her opponent’s position as they try to defend to break through openings and relentlessly work until the fights are finished.
Oliveira’s 10-fight winning streak is the second-longest active string in the UFC, trailing only Kamaru Usman’s 15 straight. Amanda is now riding an amazing 12 fight win streak that includes wins over former UFC champions Cris Cyborg, Valentina Shevchenko, Holly Holm, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, and Germaine de Randamie. In her last fight, she was scheduled to fight Megan Anderson at UFC 256 but Amanda had to pull out from the fight due to an injury. Many people thought Anderson might present some unique challenge to Amanda’s reign but that wasn’t the case in reality.
This past weekend, Julianna Peña authored one of the biggest upsets in UFC history when she submitted Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 to become the new women’s bantamweight champion. As with any major upset, the conversation quickly turned to whether Nunes, who was a favorite heading into the fight, had taken the challenger lightly, and UFC commentator Joe Rogan seems to think that was part of it. Statistically, Nunes is better than Pena in every major category except for the significant hits absorbed per minute.
The 32-year-old from Spokane, Washington, was just 1-1 in her last two fights, and as recently as 2020 had been choked out by essentially a kickboxer. What threat could she possibly pose to Nunes, the No. 1 fighter in the ESPN women's pound-for-pound rankings and a winner of 12 straight fights in a run of success that extends all the way back to 2015? I was not alone in casting this title bout as a mismatch. In the main event, Charles Oliveira retained the lightweight title, submitting Dustin Poirier with a standing choke early in the third round of a thrilling battle. Julianna Pena pulled off one of the biggest upsets in MMA history to score a second-round submission win over Amanda Nunes and win the UFC bantamweight title at UFC 269 on Saturday.
That means her upcoming bout against Juliana Pena, on paper, isn’t one to be overly excited about. Amanda Nunes (21-4) is the ‘GOAT’ of women’s MMA and frankly, should be celebrated more. The double champion has cleaned out the bantamweight and featherweight divisions and is on a 12-fight win streak with eight finishes .
In the end, one can expect Amanda Nunes to dominate this bout and get her hands raised by the referee in this big co-main event fight. Peña was expected to face Amanda Nunes for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship on August 7, 2021 at UFC 265. However Nunes tested positive for COVID-19 on July 29, 2021. The bout was rescheduled to UFC 269 on December 11, 2021. After a dominant round one from Nunes, Peña came back in the second to win the bout and championship by rear-naked choke submission in what is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in UFC history.
No one thought Chris Weidman would drop Anderson Silva and anyone who thought Rose Namajunas was going to dispatch Joanna Jedrzejczyk that first time around is lying to you. Mirko Cro Cop lost to Gabriel Gonzaga, Keith Jardine defeated Chuck Liddell. None of them were expected to win on paper, and that’s why fights aren’t determined on paper. Speaking during her post-fight press conference, Pena claimed the UFC needs to create a "Baddest Mum On The Planet" belt for her and that she should be considered the first mother to win a UFC championship - not Nunes. Pena produced one of the biggest upsets in UFC history by dethroning the GOAT to clinch the women's bantamweight title. Pena may prove to be better on the feet or ground than expected, but whichever area she is not, Amanda will quickly identify.
There’s always the chance that Pena can slip in a lucky shot and put Nunes on her butt, just like so many others have done to secure their own upset win. Her run has been so impressive and easily makes her one of the greatest of all time. I do think she is beatable, sometimes she doesn't look where she is punching and just swings .
Either purchase an ESPN+ account ($6.99) or buy the full Disney+ bundle ($13.99), which includes Disney+ and Hulu — a worthwhile investment. Dave Ross, Ricardo Lamas and Phil Brooks preview the fight. Jiu-jitsu – will she be able to control, or even get a submission, on the ground? Featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski agreed that Pena was confronted with an extremely tall order. And if Pena thought she had any hope of causing a huge upset on Sunday in Las Vegas at UFC 269, she had better think again, according to Whittaker. UFC double champion Amanda Nunes is so far ahead of her rivals that her next opponent Julianna Pena’s life is in danger, according to No.1 middleweight contender Robert Whittaker.
Prior to her defeat by Pena, Nunes was unbeaten in seven years, having won 12 fights in a row. In Paiva, O’Malley meets a surging Brazilian on the back of three consecutive victories, with the middle triumph coming during the inaugural Fight Island in Abu Dhabi in July last year. Paiva’s most recent win, a decision success in the short-notice encounter against Kyler Phillips in July, marked his bantamweight bow. No matter what, expect O’Malley to put on a display full of fireworks. Having won 10 out of 14 fights, the American MMA is not easy to tackle down. Julianna Peña$300,000$20,000-Amanda Nunes will earn a guaranteed purse of $500,000 in the fight against Julianna Pena who will earn a purse of $300,000 and $100,000 win bonus as reported by the media.
Former interim champion Poirier, who scored a pair of wins over Conor McGregor earlier this year to earn the title shot, landed some heavy left hands and downed Oliveira as he won the first round. Oliveira got Poirier on his back early in the second, landing thunderous elbows before securing victory in the next round. Purely by the numbers, the greatest MMA upset was Holly Holm's 2015 knockout of Ronda Rousey. That was a shocker, too, considering that Rousey was undefeated and had finished her four most recent previous opponents in 66, 16, 14 and 34 seconds. Rousey was as dominant a force as the sport has ever seen.
Julianna is a person who always believed in herself and believed that she could win this fight if she got it. You heard it at the press conference, you heard it in the months leading up to this fight, and she did it. The greatest part of Pena’s game is her ground and pound. If she can work her way to mount especially, she is particularly sound at working around the guard to land punches, hammerfists, and elbows, without wasting any strikes. She is good at trapping guards and using her opponent’s position as they try to defend to break through openings and relentlessly work until the fights are finished.
Oliveira’s 10-fight winning streak is the second-longest active string in the UFC, trailing only Kamaru Usman’s 15 straight. Amanda is now riding an amazing 12 fight win streak that includes wins over former UFC champions Cris Cyborg, Valentina Shevchenko, Holly Holm, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, and Germaine de Randamie. In her last fight, she was scheduled to fight Megan Anderson at UFC 256 but Amanda had to pull out from the fight due to an injury. Many people thought Anderson might present some unique challenge to Amanda’s reign but that wasn’t the case in reality.
This past weekend, Julianna Peña authored one of the biggest upsets in UFC history when she submitted Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 to become the new women’s bantamweight champion. As with any major upset, the conversation quickly turned to whether Nunes, who was a favorite heading into the fight, had taken the challenger lightly, and UFC commentator Joe Rogan seems to think that was part of it. Statistically, Nunes is better than Pena in every major category except for the significant hits absorbed per minute.
The 32-year-old from Spokane, Washington, was just 1-1 in her last two fights, and as recently as 2020 had been choked out by essentially a kickboxer. What threat could she possibly pose to Nunes, the No. 1 fighter in the ESPN women's pound-for-pound rankings and a winner of 12 straight fights in a run of success that extends all the way back to 2015? I was not alone in casting this title bout as a mismatch. In the main event, Charles Oliveira retained the lightweight title, submitting Dustin Poirier with a standing choke early in the third round of a thrilling battle. Julianna Pena pulled off one of the biggest upsets in MMA history to score a second-round submission win over Amanda Nunes and win the UFC bantamweight title at UFC 269 on Saturday.
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