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Amanda Nunes Says She’s Focused on Her Title Fight With Raquel Pennington

March 21, 2018 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris

Speaking to reporters in a recent media scrum (via MMAjunkie), UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes discussed her upcoming fight with Raquel Pennington at UFC 224. Below are some highlights from the scrum.

Her thoughts on Valentina Shevchenko: “I don’t care about her. She’s, like, only Valentina. She’s going to talk about me. I’m the best, you know? That’s why she talks about me. I beat her twice. She had her chance to try and beat me, clear. She did a couple of things in the (second) fight, but I don’t think she deserves the belt. She wasn’t able to hold me back that much in the cage. It was the same in the first fight.”

Nunes on fighting Pennington: “Right now, I’m really focused on this fight (with Pennington); it’s very hard to talk about the next step. I have to go through this one first. But when you get in my position, I’m the best in my division. I think from here, you only want to prove yourself more and more. Going down to 125 and trying the 125 belt, or going up, this is the thing that sometimes you have to do to keep yourself in the top. Imagine if I beat the girls in the other divisions. That’s going to be huge for me. It’s going to be a lot of dreams come true. But right now, I’m focusing on this fight. This fight is a big fight in my career right now, and to keep this belt is more important to me.”

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