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Julianna Pena shocked the world when she defeated Amanda Nunes to win the UFC women’s bantamweight title. Former two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes released a statement following her bantamweight title loss to Julianna Pena at UFC 269 on Saturday. Nunes is unbeaten since 2014 and also holds the UFC women’s featherweight title, but at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas this weekend, Champ she will defend the 135lbs division’s belt for the first time in two years. Rarely has anyone dominated Nunes, 33, in quite this way since she entered the U.F.C. in 2013. Her rise included easily dispatching Miesha Tate, Ronda Rousey, Holly Holm and Cris Justino, known as Cyborg. They were all pillars of women’s mixed martial arts and helped accelerate its footprint.
However, with the bantamweight champion’s excellent takedown defense record, it will be extremely difficult for Julianna Pena to control the fight. And if this fight takes place on the standup, then Amanda Nunes is incredibly powerful and dangerous than her opponent. Before we analyze this matchup and make a prediction, let us compare the stats of the two bantamweight fighters that will step inside the octagon this weekend. Former bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz also rallied for a unanimous decision over Pedro Munhoz.



Peña faced former title challenger Cat Zingano at UFC 200 on July 9, 2016. The two fought previously in a professional bout in 2012, with Peña losing after suffering an injury due to an armbar which forced the doctor to stop the bout between the second and third rounds. Peña won the fight via guillotine choke in the second round to avenge the loss.
Despite the severity of the injury, doctors have assured Peña that her right knee will return to full strength following surgery and rehabilitation. Oliveira and White both said the champ’s next defense is likely to be against Justin Gaethje, the entertaining brawler who held the interim title in 2020. Julianna Peña didn’t even realize Amanda Nunes had tapped out of Peña’s chokehold until somebody told her in the cage moments after the referee pulled her off the long-reigning champion.

She ended the longest combined title reign in UFC history, defeating a champion who boasts more UFC wins than any other woman. With so much drama and action in that bantamweight fight, there was still a main event next. Peña entered the night having lost two of her previous four fights, none of which were title fights, so it's understandable why she was such a heavy underdog. Peña pulled off one of the biggest upsets in UFC history by way of second round submission, choking out Nunes after a flurry of punches left the defending champion stunned and dazed. "Amanda has been such a great champion, and she’s done a ton for the sport," Peña said.
A rematch is most likely, but she could also defend her featherweight belt. The first openly lesbian U.F.C. champion, Nunes recently married her partner, and they had a baby last year; White said it would not be surprising if Nunes stopped fighting. But Peña, who entered the promotion in 2013, had wanted to to fight Nunes for five years, ever since the night Nunes beat Tate to become champion at U.F.C. 200 in 2016.

In the second round, Pena came out swinging and they had an unbelievable exchange for a few minutes. Pena clinched with her up against the fence before taking her down and locking in the rear-naked choke for the win. Nunes took to Instagram on Monday to say that she accepts a rematch with Pena and promised to come back better than ever.
“The Lioness” hasn’t lost in seven years and has all but cleared out her division. Further, she has fought and beat Shevchenko, the dominant flyweight champ, not once but twice. Nunes is a different animal in the cage than her opponents. She throws with more power, has a higher level of striking acumen, pushes a higher pace, and lands with more violence than almost anyone she faces. Her overhand right is her patented knockout punch but the combinations she throws leading up it are the reason her right-hand finds the mark. In the grappling department, Nunes continues her domination.
But Holm had been a three-division world champion in boxing. Her resume at that time far outshined what Peña brought into Saturday's fight. Amanda Nunes, a two-division champion, walked into T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to defend her bantamweight championship. Peña entered Saturday night's UFC 269 co-main event as a 6½-to-1 betting underdog against Amanda Nunes, and who could argue with that?

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.
Ronda Rousey selected this match-up between the two first female picks. The highly ranked and more experienced Baszler was widely considered the favorite. The fight went to the ground, where Peña was able to achieve back mount and won via rear naked choke for perhaps the biggest upset victory of the season. Pena (11-4) was a 10-1 underdog against the vaunted Nunes, widely considered the greatest fighter in the history of women’s mixed martial arts.

The champ was loading up with power, but she missed again and again, and all that did was tire her out. A pivotal women’s strawweight matchup pitting Marina Rodriguez vs. Yan Xiaonan has been added to UFC 272. In recent years, after fans see broadcast replays of sensational finishes in UFC fights, they’ve been able to look forward to extra replays. Khasan Magomedsharipov, younger brother of UFC featherweight Zabit Magomedsharipov, will compete on the stacked Bellator Dublin card. Former UFC champion Robert Whittaker has been added as a fully voiced companion in Skyrim mod. But Cyborg thinks not only did Nunes gas out against Peña, she gave up as soon as Peña got position for the fight-ending choke.